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Four Approaches to Using Wellbeing Data
By Phil Slade It’s one thing to be able to see the data, it’s a whole other thing to know what to do with it at times. When it comes to...
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- May 13
- 3 min
Control vs. Chaos, who wins in the end?
By Phil Slade Control agents Maxwell Smart and 99 lead the battle against Chaos in the 60’s TV show Get Smart, which is one of my all...
- May 6
- 2 min
Does being thankful make you smarter and more successful?
By Phil Slade In short, yes, significantly. In five major ways, research shows the positive benefits to us cognitively, and to our...
- Apr 29
- 2 min
Fight bullying with emotional intelligence
By Phil Slade Bullying is a word that gets used quite a lot nowadays, but what does it actually refer to. Well, it’s basically a...
- Apr 21
- 2 min
Is Habit Stacking the Most Powerful of All Life Hacks?
By Phil Slade In 2007, researchers at Oxford University discovered that babies have 41% more neurons than the average adult1. 41%! With...
- Mar 31
- 8 min
Five emotionally intelligent things to do to set you and your team up for success in 2022
By Phil Slade, as featured in the latest edition of the QAASP March Journal. We all know of the importance of emotional intelligence (EI)...
- Mar 25
- 3 min
Is feeling tired or bored an emotion?
By Phil Slade “Our emotional responses shape our experience of the world. Emotions can feel profoundly enriching and painfully...
- Mar 17
- 3 min
6 Ways to be More Resilient
By Roshelle Weir Being resilient is the ability to quickly get back up when life knocks you down – to be better and stronger than you...
- Mar 10
- 3 min
Two ways you can reduce change fatigue
by Phil Slade I hear a lot of people talking about change or decision fatigue nowadays. Neither concepts come from the psychological...
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Cage the Rage
When is it okay to be angry? by Phil Slade There is an old Japanese proverb which describes anger as a sharp clawed tiger, raging and...
- Feb 26
- 2 min
Empathy led leadership is not for the weak
By Phil Slade There is a common misunderstanding that leading with empathy is somehow a passive style of leadership, one that always...
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Managing vs controlling a class
Phil Slade interviews Noah Cunningham, Student and Teacher Behavioural Support ROCKET program founder from Education Queensland, on the...
- Jan 11
- 2 min
What switches do clinical psychologists use?
Video Transcript Phil: When i think of calm people Katie you're one of the calmest people that i know and yet i know that there are times...
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
The path to success is paved with emotional intelligence
By Phil Slade and Gemma Burkett The three critical areas emotional intelligence develops in school student's social and cognitive...
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
How early should we be teaching emotional intelligence?
Video Transcript Katie: We know that we're wired with emotional systems from birth, you just have to look at Ed Tronick's still face...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 10 min
The importance of emotional intelligence for student wellbeing
Video Transcript Phil: Doctor Katie Kjelsaas. Now, Katie, we were students back in UQ days. We were undergrads. We were mates that bonded...
- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
Avoid losing it in the classroom
By Phil Slade Prior to becoming a psychologist, I trained as a primary school teacher. During my practicum placements I saw first hand...
- Nov 7, 2021
- 5 min
8 rules for deploying a new health and well-being strategy into the classroom.
By Phil Slade & Roshelle Weir There is a certain irony that people who will clearly benefit from strengthening mental health and...