Television presenter Angie Hilton and clinical psychologist Chris Mackey discuss how to find your character strengths signature as well as some practical ways to apply the results. The character strengths… Read more »
Tag: Positive Psychology
How to Identify and Use Your Signature Character Strengths
Chris Mackey discusses the benefits to identifying and utilising your top character strengths.
A Calming Voice
As a psychologist, when you hear your clients’ deeply personal stories over many years, you learn that often their most profound experiences often have a numinous or sacred quality. This… Read more »
Promoting Mental Health with Positive Media
Mainstream media, including TV, radio and newspapers can have a very important role in promoting positive physical and mental health. Conveying health messages through popular media has a much greater… Read more »
Positive Power
Some of the most important messages about mental health are simple optimistic messages. This article explores the role of the media in perpetuating a positive environment for our community, as… Read more »
Positive Power
This article outlines the contribution that Geelong is making to the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people across the world led by Geelong Grammar’s pioneering of the positive education… Read more »
Synchronicity, Soul and Mental Health
One of the clearest emerging directions for mental health interventions in the 21st-century is the need to acknowledge a spiritual dimension in life. Spirituality partly involves a belief in some… Read more »
Inspired by the Elderly
There is much we can learn from the elderly, and not just from their wisdom born of long experience, but the power of their intellect. To me this is never… Read more »
Positive Case
This article relates to the idea that mental health is often conflated with mental illness, which can distract from the notion of mental health as being a positive attribute that… Read more »
Kindness and forgiveness: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives
Chris Mackey and John Hendry will be speaking on theme of kindness and forgiveness on Sunday 29th Oct at 1pm-2pm at St Peter’s Eastern Hill parish hall, 15 Gisborne St,… Read more »