Chris Mackey and Associates Newsletter

How to Thrive Documentary To Be Released

We're excited to announce initial screenings of the positive psychology documentary, How to Thrive, a practical guide to happiness, that will be showing in cinemas around Australia from the 6th of October. This includes a Red Carpet Premiere in Melbourne at 6:30pm on Thursday 13th October. Chris has been involved in the project primarily behind the scenes as a consultant and also with a cameo on-screen role.

There will be two screenings at Village Cinemas in Geelong on Monday 17th October and Sunday 23rd October at 4pm. The screening on the 23rd will be followed by a panel discussion including the director Duy Huynh, Chris Mackey and at least one of the participants. We encourage all those interested to attend. It is a compelling and ultimately uplifting portrait of seven individuals struggling with major mental health challenges.

You can also join the How to Thrive Facebook group for regular updates on the progress and screenings of the documentary.

Tickets for can be purchased for upcoming screenings around Australia (including Geelong) via the following link.

https://www.howtothrivefilm.com/screenings

Chris to Present at Art of the Minds Festival

Chris will be presenting at the upcoming Art of the Minds Festival, which runs from the 9th to 16th of October for Mental Health Week. The festival takes place on the Surf Coast and aims to activate, educate and engage the community to manage mental health and wellbeing creatively.

Chris will be presenting a session with Jules Haddock and Rob Lytzki entitled Self-Compassion - being as kind to yourself as you would be to your good friend and will take place online on Tuesday October 11 at 1pm.

Click here for more information about Chris's presentation

Click here for more information about Art of the Minds Festival

Appointment Availability

We are pleased to have some current availability for new clients after very having limited appointment options since 2020.

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer any appointments after 4pm, and flexibility is required for attending appointments as they are available at varying times during the day.

Allied Health Awards

The 2022 Allied Health Awards were held in Sydney on 10th September, for which Chris was again on the judging panel after having received the Allied Health Impact Award in 2019. Congratulations to all the winners, including the Allied Health Team Culture Excellence Award, Mums Matter Psychology, a wonderful service that provides free psychological therapy for mental health and well-being during the transition to parenthood.

Click here to see the Allied Health Awards website including 2022 winners

The practice podcast, Psych Spiels and Silver Linings has continued to release weekly episodes.

Our most recent episode was the second of a two-part series on the topic of failure. The first of the two episodes was called Reflecting on Failure as Feedback, which looked at the topic of failure and how we can best look at favour to give ourselves the best chance of success. In the second episode in the series, A Fellowship of Famous Failures, we developed this idea by looking at a number of famous people who had the perception of having failed before they became a success.

The episode before was called Dealing with a Driving Phobia. We looked at the topic of exposure therapy and how it can assist with a driving phobia. It followed on from a YouTube video on the same topic that has gathered over 40,000 views on YouTube demonstrating exposure therapy for a driving phobia.

You can listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast player or at psychspiels.com.au

If you've enjoyed the podcast, we would really appreciate it if you could rate and review and share the podcast with a friend as this will extend the reach to others who may benefit.