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15/12/2025

Today Heart Place we hold deep care for all those affected by the violence at Bondi.

Our thoughts are with the people who were directly impacted, their families, the Jewish community, those who witnessed the event, and the wider community who are absorbing shock and grief.

In moments like this, harm ripples far beyond what is immediately visible. Many are holding fear, sorrow, confusion, and a deep sense of loss. We acknowledge that pain and stand with all who are affected.

May we hold one another closer and respond with empathy, compassion, and care. May our collective care help heal what divides us, and strengthen our commitment to loving our neighbours, so that all people can live in peace, dignity, and mutual respect.

In the days ahead, as the impact continues to unfold, let us be present for one another. May this deeply shocking event draw us closer to care, shared belonging, and humanity — and further from division and othering.

May the light of our shared humanity shine more brightly in these dark days

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10/12/2025

Hello everyone,
We have 3 places available currently if anyone would like to jump in and train in Youth Mental Health First Aid - you will be all accredited ready for the new year and know how to support the youth mental health in your community, family, workplace. There is just enough time for you to do the 5-6 hour e-learning which needs to be completed before Dec 17th so you are ready for a day face to face training on Dec 17th - location our Fremantle Training room.
More information here:
https://mentalhealthstation.org/mental-health-first-aid
Booking via our website https://mentalhealthstation.org/quick-booking-menu
Email sydel@mentalhealthstation.org for partial scholarships to attend

03/12/2025

Mental Illness Can Also Bring Strengths

Mental illness is widely associated with limitation, but a growing body of research suggests it may also be associated with unexpected strengths.

Studies reveal higher creativity, emotional insight, cooperation, and resilience in people with certain mood and psychotic conditions.

Even after severe depression, some individuals go on to show unusually strong long-term psychological well-being.

Researchers argue that mental health care should preserve these strengths while treating symptoms.

https://neurosciencenews.com/mental-illness-strenghts-30011/

24/11/2025

Genetics Point to a New Type of Su***de Risk

A large genetic study shows that many people who die by su***de without any prior suicidal behaviors or known psychiatric diagnoses have a fundamentally different risk profile than those who show warning signs.

Instead of being “missed” by screening, this group appears to have fewer genetic risk factors for major psychiatric conditions and no elevated signs of traits like depressed mood or neuroticism.

These results challenge long-held assumptions that su***de risk stems mainly from unrecognized depression or anxiety.

The findings point to the existence of distinct biological and environmental pathways to su***de that require new prevention strategies.

19/11/2025

Professor Pat Dudgeon has been honoured with an Australian Mental Health Prize.Since its foundation by UNSW Sydney in 2016, the Prize has honoured advocates, clinicians, researchers, peer workers and ...

17/11/2025

A scathing Productivity Commission review concludes that Australia's mental health system is failing and needs a rewrite, while warning that 500,000 Australians are unable to access the care that they need.

10/11/2025

We have released our draft WA Su***de Prevention Framework which sets the blueprint for su***de prevention over the next five years.

Feedback is open now. Visit https://brnw.ch/21wXjb7 for more information.

09/11/2025

'What If Psychology Started With the Heart Instead of the Mind?' A new study explores how Chinese and Japanese traditions of “heart-mind” ( 心 or xīn) open alternatives to psychiatry’s brain-bound models of distress and healing. Jie Yang's understanding of xīn helps re-position and re-frame what we think of as the 'psyche' in a far more relational, affective, and embodied context, outlining the radical implications of this for our understanding of several clinical conditions (such as depression and anxiety) as well as much broader social and political dispositions.

'In a new article in the Review of General Psychology, anthropologist Jie Yang of Simon Fraser University argues that modern psychology’s reliance on the “psyche” leaves out something essential. Instead of focusing on the brain or mind as the seat of distress, her research turns to the indigenous concepts of xin in Chinese and kokoro in Japanese, both usually translated as “heart” or “heart-mind.”

“Our shared interest lies in the potential for heart, rather than the psyche, to be the ground for developing a new template of psychological care,” they write.

She describes this heart-based template as both “affective, that is, embodied, sensitive to intensities of feeling emanating from heart-related distress” and “aesthetic, meaning artful and intuitive, because xin, the Chinese term for the heart, which is also the origin of kokoro in Japan, is both body and mind.”
Concepts of xin and kokoro, they note, “suggest an interdependent self, rather than a bounded, individual self, such as the one we associate with tenets of Euro-American psychology and the psyche.”

The study documents how these traditions frame the heart not only as a physical organ but as the ground of cognition, emotion, virtue, and social life. Yang and collaborators describe this approach as “aesthetic attunement”: an artful, embodied way of aligning the self with others, society, and the cosmos. They argue that heart-based care provides healing potential where psychiatric categories like depression and anxiety fall short.'

Via the excellent Mad In America. Read the full article here: https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/what-if-psychology-started-with-the-heart-instead-of-the-mind/

This is the first time we are offering the Seeding Hope workshop as part of our Caring Communities program with Heart Pl...
02/11/2025

This is the first time we are offering the Seeding Hope workshop as part of our Caring Communities program with Heart Place. We need to know numbers of attendees so please book if you are inspired to join us ....www.heartplace.org.au booking ...>https://heartplace.org.au/shop/ols/categories/caring-community

Up coming Youth Mental Health First Aid ( Blended) Booking Now. Numbers are limited to 12 attendees Book now to priorit...
02/11/2025

Up coming Youth Mental Health First Aid ( Blended) Booking Now. Numbers are limited to 12 attendees Book now to prioritise the mental health of youth in your community - work & family and to secure your place. www.mentalhealthstation.org

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