Now look, I was living my best lock-down life when the terrible news about the Ekka public holiday cancellation hit. What’s next? Frogs...

Places everybody! Our legwarmers are on, and our warm-ups completed to start final repetitions for the Mid-Pan / Sem-Two Extravaganza....

Genuine conversations about rest occur too infrequently. Instead, we wear weariness like an ugly, ill-fitting, doesn’t-...

Winter is upon us. With it, information about our return to our workplaces is crystallising. Am I pleased about it? Yes. Am I...

An entire new vocabulary has sprouted ‘round the Rona. Flattening the curve, formerly a phrase reserved for epidemiologists and...

I have to admit, that I never quite know what it means when something is described as a doozy. Or rather, I know it involves...

David Kessler writes that in light of our world changing, many of us are experiencing collective grief in response to an invisible virus...

As we settle into our home offices, and figuring out a routine of on-linyness, tending to family and general flexibility, many of us are...

As we embark on our first week of on-line teaching, I am leaning on the wisdom of Eckhart Tolle. He notes three modalities for living...

I cannot think of a more important time for us to relate to ourselves kindly. Between a rapidly evolving pandemic, devastating bushfires...

Emma Stone writes that there isn't a better representation of beauty than someone being herself. As I am in the final stages of...

The past two Tuesdays I have been fortunate to teach a course on Speech Language and Communication. I have introduced some new terms, new...

This model was posted a while ago on Facebook. I love the simplicity and the elegance. I wonder how many of us feel that they are...

Most clinicians have uttered the words: "They're in denial" when talking about a patient or family who didn't do what they were told to...

I am writing and teaching about the notion of intentional empathy - being in service with our caring. It is the foundation for all...

More than a third of medical interns in WA are struggling with depression. 27% graduate with self-reported with depression, which then...

As many of you will know, the work on Transforming Conversations was born in the trenches of Healthcare. It was developed to assist...

Later this week I will be teaching a seminar to gradute students at the Melbourne Uni. The brief was brief: something on how to talk to...