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7 Dimensions of Wellness: Physically Energised (Sleep)
No full textThe 7 Dimensions of Wellness is a 9-part short documentary series that explores pathways for enhancing our overall health and wellbeing. Join Darren Morton as he speaks to leading experts, conducts fun experiments and presents fascinating insights into how we can live our best life
Jessica Matthews: Integrative Health Educator
No full textSimon Matthews (Wellcoaches Australia) and Darren Morton (Avondale University) introduce the passionate people making a difference in the pioneering field of lifestyle medicine. In this episode Simon Matthews (Wellcoaches Australia) and Darren Morton (Avondale University) speak with innovative integrative health educator Jessica Matthews
Nicotine Fact Sheet 3: Nicotine and the Lungs
Get PDFThis series of Nicotine Fact Sheets, beginning with the basics, has been devised to aid colleagues and health workers to navigate the complexities arising from often conflicting and dated information or from popular misunderstandings about Nicotine. Evidence for each point is provided with references.
Access Managing vaping cessation: A monograph for counselling adult and adolescent vapers https://research.avondale.edu.au/oer_materials/1/
Fact Sheets now available include:
Nicotine: The Basics https://research.avondale.edu.au/oer_materials/2
Nicotine: The Heart and the Cardiovascular System https://research.avondale.edu.au/oer_materials/3
Nicotine and the Lungs https://research.avondale.edu.au/oer_materials/4
Other Fact Sheets coming soon will be:
Nicotine, the Brain and Mental Health
Nicotine and Pregnancy
Nicotine and Carcinogenesis
Rick Warren and Ellen G. White on Christian Character Development: An Unexpected Meeting of Minds?
Get PDFThis article examines and discusses how two influential Christian authors from different eras perceive the importance and development of character in the lives of Christian believers. It is a discourse that is intended to offer \u27food for thought\u27 to Christian teachers in the context of current educational interest in character development
An Interdisciplinary Mental Wellbeing Intervention for Increasing Flourishing: Two Experimental Studies
Get PDFPositive Psychology Interventions (PPIs) have been shown to improve mental health, but little is known about their impact on the quantifiable experience of flourishing. Two experimental studies investigated whether the proportion of participants flourishing, assessed using the Huppert and So conceptual framework, could be increased through a 10-week online interdisciplinary intervention that combined strategies from positive psychology and lifestyle medicine. In Study 1 (n = 421), flourishing was significantly increased (p \u3c 0.001) in the intervention but not the control group and was sustained at 12 weeks post-intervention. Study 2 (n = 458) showed that the addition of human support to the online intervention did not further improve its effectiveness at increasing flourishing. These studies demonstrate that online interdisciplinary interventions that incorporate positive psychology and lifestyle medicine strategies can increase human flourishing, irrespective of the addition of human support
Mathematics from the Ground up: An Emerging Model for Enriching Mathematical Learning for Children aged 4–12 using a School Garden Program
No full textMeaningful and enjoyable experiences are important in the education of children. In this qualitative case study, the garden program (incl. market garden shop, garden care, Kid’s Kitchen, and chicken coop) in one Australian primary school was explored to determine its impact on the mathematical learning of children. Data were collected using focus groups (four student, three parent and three volunteer groups), three teacher interviews, weekly garden journal entries and, when possible, through observation. This program provided opportunities for enriched mathematical learning facilitated by: early exposure to mathematical applications through mixed-age groups at different stations; an authentic, real-life setting to apply mathematical learning; and the consolidation of mathematical experiences through weekly engagement. These program features were found to positively impact the mathematical readiness, attitudes and competence of students
When ‘Someone is Writing a Poem’: The Role of Metaphor in Transforming the Inhabited Experience of Life-Threatening Illness
No full textBut most often someone writing a poem believes in, depends on, a delicate, vibrating range of difference, that an ‘I’ can become a ‘we’ without extinguishing others, that a partly common language exists to which strangers can bring their own heartbeat, memories, images. A language that itself has learned from the heartbeat, memories, images of strangers. (Rich 2003: 86)
The New leaves writing project was designed to provide people experiencing life-threatening illnesses the poetic tools to help gain self-confidence, literary skills and some kind of aesthetic satisfaction by creating their own poems. Because poetry often utilises the language of the subconscious, it has a unique capacity to help people uncover and listen to the deeper meanings of their lives (Harrower 1972; Mazza 1999). Poetry enables people to feel their lives, rather than to withdraw, or retreat into emotional numbness or states of paralysis in times of crisis. Participants in our project found writing poetry helped build an interior space and – when undertaken in a group led by Judith Beveridge, who is an experienced practitioner – connect their work to a wider community. This article focuses on the ways in which the creation of metaphors and symbolic images enabled New leaves poets to represent the knowledge and experience of illness while moving dialogically from an isolated ‘I’ to a connected ‘We’ by participating in the workshop and publication process
Butler, Francis James (1896–1979)
No full textFrancis James Butler\u27s long denominational service included various administrative positions in Australia
Buckner, William George (c. 1828–1920) and Rosa (Reece) (1850–1901)
No full textWilliam and Rosa Buckner were missionaries in the South Pacific
Fletcher-Dowell, Elizabeth (Bessie) Armstrong (1899–1980)
No full textElizabeth (known as Bessie) Armstrong Dowell served on the Asiatic Division office team in Shanghai from 1917 to 1922