Psychologist with too many projects
I recently read an article called Why Your Best Ideas Come After Your Worst, and it stuck with me. The first thing I took away from it was the legitimising of two psychological states when creating something. One state (the clown) is the messy creative. It throws out all sorts of ideas, some good, some … Continue reading Neither the outcome or the process of getting there will be perfect
I recently road-tripped to Melbourne for the Shut Up and Write (SUAW) Conference 2025, which surprised me. Anyone that knows me knows I am not a fan of travel, crowds, or the sensory overload of conferences. But I got a personal invite to attend (I think because I've experimented with SUAW before) and being honest … Continue reading I attended a Shut Up and Write conference
- and why it's changing how I engage with research again I graduated from my clinical psychology program in 2006 and, after a few short bursts working as a clinician, spent most of the years between 2007 and 2016 doing project and research work. I was okay at it. I worked on some cool projects, … Continue reading How I Use AI-Powered Research Digests to Get a Grip on a Paper
I've been very fortunate in my career over the last eight years. After rejoining Flinders University, where I originally studied, I transitioned from 10 years of working in child and adolescent mental health into a role that allows me to align my strengths with meaningful work. I've crafted a role that plays to my interests, … Continue reading Thinking 1, 5 and 10 years into the future
[this is a revised version of a post I wrote for my work] I started taking mental health as a topic seriously when I started working at Flinders. Yes, it was part of my training as a psychologist, but my career had kept me on the periphery of the topic for a long time, at … Continue reading A stepped approach to improving one’s mental health
Next week we release our mental health focused campaign at Flinders called The Good Vibes Experiment. I’ll post on it once it is all up and running. A central feature of the campaign is encouraging people to experiment with adding mental health promoting activities to their everyday life. In the process, we had to think … Continue reading Do we need to sell mental health?
That was a busy week! Although admittedly, the bulk of the week was taken up with preparation for a small conference presentation I gave yesterday (Friday 30/1/21). I was speaking to physiotherapy educators, the ones who support and coach students through their clinical placements prior to graduation. The essence of the presentation was how to … Continue reading The benefits of thinking about mental health as a set of interrelated domains
Dr Gareth Furber 