Making Work Better

In this episode Dr Lucy Hone and Dr Denise Quinlan discuss collective resilience, building wellbeing and resilience in diverse populations, and how to develop the most important skills associated with resilience.

This episode was originally recorded for the Flourish FM podcast and is re-broadcast here with kind permission from podcast hosts, Dr Nick Holton and Dr Jon Beale.

Full notes: nziwr.co.nz

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S4-E7- Lex Davis, educator and LGBTQIA+ advocate, explains why feeling invisible in your own school makes belonging impossible, why silence is inherently unhelpful, and how using an ‘equity pause’ can be a game changer. Learn how to recognise when you’re privileged and holding space, how to share space, find common ground, and listen to what LGBTQIA+ youth need.

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Working out who you are and where you belong is challenging for many young people. For youth from marginalised ethnic groups with diverse gender identities, the challenges are more complex. Intersectionality can result in people feeling cut into ever smaller slices. Lex Davis, educator and takatāpui, shares one approach helping young people navigate this space.

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Even though we live in a country of abundance, many of our people go hungry and lack shelter. Helen Robinson explains how poverty drives social exclusion and isolation, deep shame and mental distress. Helen says ‘the way out and through is in relationship’. To enable change, she challenges everyone listening to ‘be in relationship with someone who is wildly different to you and see where it takes you’.

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz

Even though we live in a country of abundance, many of our people go hungry and lack shelter. Helen Robinson explains how poverty drives social exclusion and isolation, deep shame and mental distress. Helen says ‘the way out and through is in relationship’. To enable change, she challenges everyone listening to ‘be in relationship with someone who is wildly different to you and see where it takes you’.

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz

The blind ref sending ableism to the sin bin - Julie Woods, disability advocate, has taken on the role of ‘blind ref’, calling out ableist behaviour wherever she encounters it, issuing red cards to send ableism to the sin bin.

Julie’s resilience recipe of ‘action, simplicity, love and play’ has kept her going through life’s challenges and will resonate with everyone who needs to manage their stress and inject some joy into their day.

Full notes and links: nziwr.co.nz

Denise describes school principal Matt Bateman’s leadership as building a culture of caring, connection, collaboration, and celebration. Learn how Matt’s principal group helped schools navigate pandemic challenges, share new curriculum development, and embraced a model of shared leadership.

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Full notes at: nziwr.co.nz

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Resilience is not a solo game and the environments we live and work in matter for our resilience. We are each other’s environment. Learn how the larger group cultures in which we live, work and play, can support us to thrive, or leave us debilitated, crawling for the nearest exit. Listen as Denise and guest Lucy Hone explain what collective resilience is, why it matters, and how to build it. Full notes at: nziwr.co.nz. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz

Join Denise as she talks with Rob Baker about job crafting – a way to adapt our jobs to better fit our strengths and skills. Rob shares how even 15 minutes of job crafting in your day made work more meaningful and satisfying for call centre workers. Living through lockdowns and working from home have meant that jobcrafting for resilience has never been more important to us all!

Listen to why everyone of us can job craft wherever we work, and how it can buffer stress and build resilience and wellbeing.

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‘Forgiveness can be important in order to re-build our sense of who we are after a significant loss.’

Tayyab explains that loss is universal and most people recover from those losses over time. When a grieving person blames themselves or someone else for the loss and is unable to forgive, or is unable to forgive a person who has died for something they did or didn’t do - this can get in the way of healing and recovery.

Tayyab discusses strategies for helping people come to forgiveness. He shares the strengths he has seen people draw upon after loss – including perspective, persistence and courage.

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