Websites
Health support/services for people of diverse sexualities and genders.
“Relax with Calm, a simple mindfulness meditation app that brings clarity and peace of mind into your life.”
Embrace Multicultural Mental Health
“Embrace Multicultural Mental Health (the Embrace Project) is run by Mental Health Australia and provides a national focus on mental health and suicide prevention for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.
It provides a national platform for Australian mental health services and multicultural communities to access resources, services and information in a culturally accessible format.
The Embrace Project builds on the important work of previous national multicultural mental health projects – including the MHiMA and the Multicultural Mental Health Australia project – and works towards an equitable mental health system which reflects and responds well to the needs of Australia’s multicultural population.”
Tara Brach – “Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world. The result is a distinctive voice in Western Buddhism, one that offers a wise and caring approach to freeing ourselves and society from suffering.”
Translated information about health and wellbeing.
“A Self-Management and Resilience Training (SMART) toolbox … is designed to give serving and ex-serving ADF personnel CBT tools to manage stress in real time and build their psychological resilience over time.”
“Mindful’s purpose is to inform, inspire, guide, and connect all those who want to live a mindful life, to enjoy the scientifically supported benefits of mindfulness practices, and to create a more mindful and caring society.”
“Psychlopaedia™ is an online publication devoted to psychology. It aims to make this immense field – the discoveries, the disorders, treatments, as well as insights into the human mind and behaviour – accessible to all. It is published by the Australian Psychological Society, the leading organisation for psychologists in Australia. As well as publishing original content we will be aggregating, curating and sharing psychology news and views from around the web. We aim to be a place where you can come for all the latest and best news from psychology.”
Self-compassion Guided Meditation and Exercises
Dr Kristen Neff – “Kristin Neff, Ph.D. is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, being the first one to operationally define and measure the construct over a decade ago.”
The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy
Guided meditations recorded by either Dr. Dennis Tirch or Professor Paul Gilbert, PhD, OBE.
Dr Russ Harris – Dr Russ Harris is an internationally-renowned ACT trainer based in Australia. His website provides information about ACT and mindfulness. It also includes many helpful free resources associated with Russ’ books as well as links to purchase his books, CDs, and MP3s.
Social, emotional and cultural wellbeing online resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
RMIT University offers a free audio program which uses concepts from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The program comprises of 6 mini-lectures (or conversations), practical exercises and worksheets available for download.
