Salutegenics

24/01/2026

As we approach the start of a new school year, it’s the perfect moment to pause and recognise the true value of teachers.

In the article "The Teacher as a Work of Art", Mark Selkrig and Gert Biesta invite us to rethink how we understand teaching — not as a series of technical tasks or measurable outputs, but as deeply human, complex, and creative work.

They remind us that teachers, like works of art, bring inherent value simply through their presence. They create spaces for discovery, carry knowledge and values, respond with care, and continually evolve alongside their students and reflect the values of the communities they serve.

As classrooms prepare to reopen and educators once again step into spaces of uncertainty, possibility, and hope, this article is a timely reminder that teachers deserve to be valued, trusted, and supported — not reduced to outcomes alone.

We encourage you to read this article by Selkrig & Biesta and reflect on how we recognise and honour the vital work of teachers.

Salutegenics wishes educators, schools, communities, and the families within them a positive and inspiring start to the new school year. May it be one of growth, connection, and shared purpose.

👉 Read the article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/13540602.2026.2615662?needAccess=true

With special thanks to Paul Faci for forwarding this article and highlighting this important topic.

18/01/2026

Our nervous systems are shaped by connection.

In a daily diary study led by researchers Nicola Hermanto, David Zuroff, Allison Kelly and Michelle Leybman results showed that self-compassion is deeply relational.

When people both give and receive support, they tend to feel more reassured, regulated, and kind toward themselves. When support flows in only one direction, that inner softness can begin to fade.

The following article offers powerful insight into how everyday relationships shape our wellbeing: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886916311138

06/01/2026

Stan series DEAR LIFE. An outstanding Australian series shot in Ballarat. An excellent drama around real relationships and all their complexities. A must watch.

Season 2 is necessary.

06/01/2026

🎉 A new year offers a fresh opportunity to strengthen your resilience.

Resilience First Aid equips you with practical skills to support your own wellbeing and to have confident, caring conversations with others.

With this year’s training dates now available, we invite you to join a growing community committed to wellbeing, prevention, and meaningful connection.

Because the best time to build resilience is before you need it.

04/01/2026

Beautifully framed

“What parents let go of shapes a child’s courage.”🩵

30/12/2025

2025 was a landmark year for Salutegenics. Throughout the year, we facilitated numerous workshops across diverse settings and sectors. Each became a space for reflection, growth, and meaningful conversation, where individuals and teams leaned into change, deepened their awareness, and explored healthier, more connected ways of working and living.

It was also a year of connection. New professional relationships blossomed into collaborations, and many evolved into meaningful friendships. These connections became one of the most rewarding aspects of the year.

Salutegenics continues to grow not just through what we do, but through the people we meet along the way.

Our biggest project this year was the Salutegenics rebrand. This was more than a visual refresh, it was an alignment. Our new brand identity reflecting clarity, maturity, and depth of our work today.

One of the most emotional chapters of the year was leaving our business home of 15 years. Our office in Keilor Road held countless memories, conversations, breakthroughs, challenges, laughter, and growth. Saying goodbye was bittersweet, marking the end of an era while opening the door to what’s next.

As we reflect on 2025, we see a year rich in movement, meaning, and momentum. It was a year of growth and goodbye, of visibility and reinvention, of deep work and deep connection.

We step into the future with gratitude — for the people we met, the work we facilitated, the spaces we held, and the chapters we closed.

Here’s to everything that was, and everything that’s still unfolding.

22/12/2025

Wishing You a Merry Christmas & Blessed New Year!

As the year draws to a close, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to each of you; our valued clients and workshop participants. Your openness, care for yourself and others, and commitment to mental fitness and wellbeing continue to inspire us.

2025 has brought moments of reflection, learning, and growth. Throughout it all, you’ve shown compassion for yourselves and those around you, making space for connection, balance, and sustainable wellbeing. That intention and care are truly worth celebrating.

This festive season, we hope you find time to pause, restore, and enjoy meaningful moments with the people who matter most. May you be gentle with yourself, nourish your wellbeing, and carry that kindness forward into the new year.

From the Green Team at Salutegenics, we wish you a joyful Christmas and a New Year filled with compassion, clarity, and positive momentum. We look forward to continuing to support your wellbeing journey together in 2026.💚

19/12/2025

Registrations are now open for the Salutegenics 2026 Resilience First Aid programs.

Join the thousands who have already invested in their mental fitness and resilience by becoming RFA certified—and make 2026 the year you take proactive steps towards building stronger, healthier individuals and communities.

🔗 To register visit www.salutegenics.com.au

16/12/2025

Australia is holding the people of Bondi - in the flower memorials, the long lines of those wanting to give blood, the quiet collaboration of support, the messages of care, the compassionate leadership we see on our screens, and the journalists who are choosing empathy over sensationalism.

Connection in community heals 💚

10/12/2025

Australia’s new social media age laws quietly “switched on” today, and life online just changed for young people under 16.

Under the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) framework, major platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and others must now take “reasonable steps” to prevent under-16s from creating or keeping accounts, with significant penalties if they don’t.

At Salutegenics, we welcome any move that genuinely reduces online harm — cyberbullying, unsafe contact, constant comparison and sleep disruption are very real issues in our consulting room.

But legislation alone won’t grow healthy, resilient digital citizens.
We also need to invest in:

Digital literacy for young people – helping them understand algorithms, advertising, privacy, consent and how to recognise manipulation and misinformation online.

Safe connection on and off screens – co-creating family and school agreements about tech use, encouraging in-person friendships, sport, creative hobbies and community involvement alongside age-appropriate, supervised online spaces.

Ongoing conversations, not one-off rules – asking teens what they value online, listening to their worries, and working with them to design safer digital habits.

This law may limit access, but our relationships, education and everyday practices will ultimately shape how young people feel about themselves — both on and off the screen.

What are you noticing or hearing from the young people in your world today?

02/12/2025

Theory of conservation not combustion

01/12/2025

Saturday’s Compassion Symposium at - School of Psychology made it very clear: it’s a non-negotiable.

Across the sessions, a few themes really landed for me:

Compassion is not fringe, it’s foundational: It’s still dismissed in some settings as soft or sentimental, yet the evidence shows compassionate teams consistently perform better, think more clearly, and recover faster from setbacks.

Our nervous systems are online and offline at the same time: The way we regulate (or dysregulate) our emotions on screens doesn’t stay on the screen. It bleeds into our offline relationships, our families, our workplaces, our health.

Suffering is lightened when we respond together: Collective responding – teams, communities, systems acting in concert – is what transforms compassion from a feeling into a force.

Relationships matter more than we like to admit: Discordant, chronically tense relationships quietly erode wellbeing. Repair, boundaries and authentic connection aren’t “extra”; they’re protective.

Midlife is more than menopause – and HER WAY needs a louder microphone: Menopause is one important thread, but not the whole tapestry of midlife. The HER WAY study deserves far greater exposure so women’s experiences are understood in their full biological, psychological and social context.

Culture can either hold compassion or choke it: Corporate culture directly shapes the quality of care we deliver. Sometimes the system itself gets in the way of compassion practices at work — and that’s a design problem, not a character flaw.

The three circles of compassion can change a life: Balancing compassion for others, from others, and for self isn’t a theory exercise; it’s a daily practice that reshapes how we relate, lead and heal.

“What is this thing, compassion?” -
I loved the framing of compassion at the intersection of moral code, relational action, and the Intention–Action divide. It’s not who we say we are that matters, but how we cross that gap — how we show up when someone’s suffering presses on our values.

If we get compassion right, performance, wellbeing and justice tend to follow.