Educating yourself psychologically can facilitate your own repair and recovery process. The following materials may therefore be of interest:
Some resources and offerings that might be of help. Additional resources will be added over time...so please come back again soon...
For Workplaces
Read my own and others' advice on reconnecting with colleagues for the festive season in an article featured in both The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
COVIBOOK, a PDF book aimed at helping children under the age of 7 years, to understand what is happening. It is available in 21 languages.
Get help engaging your kids (or even you) to exercise indoors by tuning in each day to P.E. with Joe on his Body Coach TV channel on YouTube. Read more about what it's been like to join in with this online kids exercise sensation here.
Sharing custody is hard enough without coronavirus. Here are some tips for co-parenting right now from ABC News.
Maintain perspective by doing Dr. Martin Seligman's Three Blessings Exercise. This exercise has been scientifically shown to bring significantly improved positive perspective into people's lives as quickly as within one week of starting the practice. Look here to understand how to judge if it is working for you.
Although The Met Opera in New York has closed, it hopes to brighten the lives of its audience members even while its stage is dark. Every day for the duration of the Met’s closure, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series will be made available for free streaming. For more information, click here.
For Families
Set up a daily family ritual of doing something together while keeping your brains active at the same time, by completing the seven free quizzes offered by The New Daily. They are great fun!
For Others
Use this calling card to offer help to your neighbours, particularly those who are elderly or otherwise might benefit from a helping hand or just a chat (at least 1.5m apart, of course!).
Self-Help Resources
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Romantic Relationships
The Gottman Relationship Blog - lots of good information to help couples improve their relationships.
Dr. John Gottman talking about his ideas on Making Relationships Work. Here he talks about his model, The Sound Relationship House, which describes the elements present in couples he refers to as relationship 'masters' and absent in couples he refers to as relationship 'disasters.' This recorded presentation is in four, 10 minute parts. The link here takes you to the first part and you will find the three parts that follow shown to the right of the YouTube player.