Reading Time: 2 minutes You can grow a more resilient next generation A New Adventure Time flies and in less than 2 months, Emmaus will turn 3 years old. It has been an amazing journey as our team worked hard to grow mental resilience and non-profit volunteer partnerships capabilities across more than 120 projects and reaching out to more…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Last Friday, we met up with social purpose entities from Singapore and across its shores to discuss Strategic Volunteer Partnerships in the post-COVID-19 world. Together with bantu, we: reviewed the state and potential of volunteerism in this new normal, looked at the current measures in place, considered factors to consider when determining the resumption of…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chatting about My Hills & Valleys of Battling Burnout Had an enjoyable chat with Junia. It’s amazing how despite it only being about 30 minutes, I was able to chat about my own journey battling burnout, about helping others battle burnout and share practical handles on mental resilience. If you have missed it, catch it…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes How to Manage Your Emotions during COVID-19? Image from funfreshideas.com Meet the Friendly Four What do you get when you put a psychologist, counsellor and a social worker with experience of burnout into the same room? You get a great and refreshing conversation about mental well-being during COVID-19. And no, we don’t look like the…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Flights may be grounded, countries may be on lock-down but COVID-19 is not stopping this global conversation on something which affects everyone; our mental well-being. On 18 May, 4pm-5pm (Singapore time), James, our Lead Thrive-Synergist & Founder, chatted with Tova from Good Deeds Day* about mental resilience during COVID-19. We were honoured to have almost…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Losing our Sanity? Yes, you do not need to tear your hair out as you work from home during this pandemic. Not many of us are accustomed to working from home. Set against the backdrop of safe distancing measures that makes traveling to work and face-to-face meetings impossible and against the competing roles we need…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Burnout during COVID-19?! Nah, or wait, maybe I might. Watch the chat we had with Hyder from Creative Nation about keeping mentally resilient as we #STAYHOMEFORSG and #WORKFROMHOME Thanks to Creative Nation Singapore for having me and for the meaningful chat we had. We hope you will gain some perspectives and handles from it. Watch the video at…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Let’s Chat Mental Well-Being Let’s have a chat about our mental health during this COVID-19 pandemic as we #StayHome and #WorkFromHome here. Join James, our Lead Thrive-Synergist and Founder, as he chats with the panel on Peatix Livestream about staying mentally resilient during turbulent times as now. From Working From Home woes to managing the stress…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes How do we hold F.A.S.T. to goodness amidst COVID-19? In celebration of Good Deeds Day, we have contributed a short video (albeit not the best production quality) on how you can do good from your home. We can still #dogood and #fuelgd and COVID-19 is not going to stop us! Good Deeds Day (see www.good-deeds-day.org)…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes We kicked off 2020 with our first mental well-being talks at St. Andrew’s Community Hospital last week. And no, there were no physical elephants in the room (a little about that later). But we were encouraged to hear of the hospital’s commitment to raise awareness and train their staff on mental resilience. Through a series…
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