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: < 1 minute Begin to Thrive in 80 Ways Mental Resilience Handles for COVID-19 COVID-19 has not just brought with it threats to our physical well-being but our mental well-being too. We are glad to announce the 3rd edition of the COVID-19 Mental Resilience Thriving Kit (rather than survival kit). This thriving kit is our labour of love…
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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: 3 minutes Being mentally resilient requires one to take practical steps; steps to overcome challenges and grow as a person. This is especially so in a time of global pandemic where everyone is fighting some kind of crisis various levels. We have been working in the last few months to help share practical tips in helping people…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute “I’m Trash” gif from Tenor.com One of the most memorable scenes I have watched in Toy Story 4 is perhaps the scene where Forky, a unique toy made by a boy named Bonnie, kept saying “I’m trash” and kept seeking out trash bins to jump into. Though the scene is funny, it does get me…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute With COVID-19 and the need to stay home comes the opportunity for us to further bond with our families. In keeping with our mission to help people and families thrive, we have put together a directory of family bonding ideas. You can search through the directory (http://tiny.cc/bond-my-family) based on e.g. ages, outcomes, preparation etc. You…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes My “Dragging My Feet Home” Experience This has got to be the most “personal” post to date as it involves, well, my feet. Yes, the picture you see above is none other than my own feet, featured along with my pair of broken slippers. We are in the thick of the Circuit Breaker here in…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute If you are having a zoom call with yourself, what would you say? We all talk to ourselves but often, what are we saying to ourselves about the situation we are in and about how we feel about ourselves? We need to have a good chat with ourselves. We have developed the Self-Talk Audit some…
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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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