Category: Life long learning

March 3, 2022

Health behaviour and change management – Study reflections

Now that exams are over I feel the need to take a moment to reflect on what I learned.

February 14, 2022

A personal perspective on how to share an Acknowledgement of Country

Inspired by recent conversations with people wanting to learn more about sharing a meaningful Acknowledgement of Country, I am capturing my perspective from many years of thinking and personal research. This is my personal perspective on how to share an Acknowledgement of Country.

December 3, 2021

A personal perspective on disability and intersectionality

Until recently I hadn’t thought of myself as having a disability and would never have thought to tick any box that indicated I have one, outside of medical contexts. Part of that was my own understanding of what disability is. Part was that I couldn’t think of accommodations an employer could or would provide to help me. And part is...

October 29, 2021

Exploring Indigenous Knowledge

I joined a couple of webinars this week on the topic of Indigenous Knowledge and Thinking. I’ve been curious about the topic for a long time, and have been exploring it more recently to increase my own understanding.

October 16, 2021

What would you remember from your work life?

Learning legend Helen Blunden asked this question on her blog recently, and it struck a chord with me. So I’m answering from my perspective and exploring what those remembrances mean.

August 10, 2021

Levels of evidence and healthy scepticism – Sketchnotes for learning

I’ve combined a few concepts here from week 4 ‘evidence used in practice’ including levels of evidence and healthy scepticism. This one probably edges more into the category of a sketched infographic, but in any case, it’s for my study notes.

August 4, 2021

Case formulation – Sketchnotes for learning

This week we are working through case formulation and the 4 P’s. Rumour has it there are more P’s to come along, but for now I have this diagram which is in part inspired by sketches our unit chair Alexa Haley did during class.

July 25, 2021

Thoughts about the Scientist-Practitioner model in an organisational context

This week at uni I am learning about the scientist-practitioner model and the challenges of the scientist-practitioner gap. I immediately found it thoroughly interesting and stayed up late making notes on the prescribed academic articles.

July 20, 2021

Back to school with my digital toolbox

I remember the excitement of preparing for every new school year. The scent of fresh textbooks. Notebooks lovingly covered in contact paper for protection. New stationery with my name carefully etched in. But times have changed and as I have prepared to go back to school I’ve embraced the same digital toolbox that I use at work, Microsoft 365.