There's probably an object within arm's reach of you right now that knows you better than you'd like to admit — the mug you always reach for, the chair no one else sits in, the guitar in the corner. I've spent my career in the space where we stop talking about our lives and start stepping into them, and I've found the simplest doorway is an object. Here's a small experiment in seeing yourself with a kinder, clearer eye.
Counselling that travels: telehealth across Australia Some of the most important conversations I’ve had as a counsellor have happened with someone eight hundred kilometres away. A teacher in a regional town where the nearest counsellor is booked out for three months. A student in a share house in Melbourne who could never quite say to...
The Coolum Institute’s inaugural residential retreat takes place at Coolum Beach on 18 October 2026. Two sessions of deep, experiential, clinically grounded work built around the 3Ms framework — by invitation only, limited to twelve participants. This is not a wellness weekend. It is an embodied practice of reclaiming your internal landscape.
For weeks we've shared the free Psychodrama Club — the open doorway into The Coolum Institute. Here's what sits behind it: one-to-one counselling in Coolum Beach and across Australia, built on the belief that lasting change happens in action, not just conversation.
A weekly psychodrama group on Mondays in Coolum from 7 September — theatre put to work on real life. For actors, therapists, and anyone ready to stand up rather than talk.
Taking a self-assessment is one thing. Knowing what to do with the results is another. The DAS Follow-Up Worksheets for teachers are designed to bridge that gap.
Depression, anxiety, and stress do not usually arrive with a clear announcement. They accumulate gradually — in the quality of your sleep, your patience in difficult conversations, your ability to find meaning in work that once felt purposeful.
It was an incredible weekend at Greenwich College in Adelaide, joining over 75 educators for the English Australia PD Fest SA. Following our session in Brisbane, it’s clear that the "invisible weight" of ELICOS—balancing regulatory stress, classroom complexity, and pastoral care—is a shared challenge that needs a new approach.
Most professionals working in high-demand roles believe they are functioning better than they are. The 3Ms Self-Assessment is not designed to flatter you — it is designed to give you an honest map of where your internal architecture is currently strong, and where it may benefit from deliberate development. The three domains — Metacognition (your...
It was a privilege to recently share the presentation, “Beyond Burnout: Cultivating Well-being for ELICOS Professionals”. The conversations that followed highlighted a stark reality we often face but rarely name: the staggering rates of exhaustion in our sector, with 46% of TESOL teachers in private schools suffering from high burnout. When regulatory demands, classroom complexity,...
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