Chris Mackey and Associates Newsletter

How to Thrive: Online Opportunity to View the Documentary

We have been very pleased with the glowing feedback on How to Thrive, the positive psychology documentary that Chris has been involved in, which was released nationally in October. Duy Huynh and Andrew Kelly, the film's director and producer, will be in London later this month to share the film with a wider audience.

The documentary has already had extensive screenings around Australia including a sold-out premiere in Geelong on Tuesday, October 23. If you would like to watch the film, there is a special virtual screening taking place online this Sunday the 13th of November at 7pm AEDT.

The following link has more information on the virtual screening, including how you can access tickets - https://events.humanitix.com/how-to-thrive-virtual-screening-13-november-7pm-aedt

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

Tickets can also be purchased for upcoming screenings around Australia via the following link.

https://www.howtothrivefilm.com/screenings

Psychologists Complete In House Workshop with David Cherry

Last Friday, our psychologists completed an in-house workshop with renowned psychologist and educator, David Cherry. The workshop was on the topic of Managing Difficult Conversations.

David has trained many thousands of mental health and welfare professionals as well as other staff groups. Click here for details about David's training, or to sign up for his newsletter, which has a wide range of interesting information about worker wellbeing and professional issues.

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

In our most recent episode, Soaring with Synchronicity - feat. Lisa Buksbaum, we interviewed Lisa Buksbaum, founder of SoaringWords and author of her new book, Soaring Into Strength, about synchronicity, intuition and positive psychology. Lisa has the most wonderful stories, including from challenging situations like grief and illness, along with themes of joy and connection.

The previous two episodes focussed on relationships and looked at some of the principles of marital therapy.

In the first episode, Enriching Our Relationships, we looked at the work of John and Julie Gottman, who are world leaders in relationship therapy. We discussed some of their main ideas and key strategies to foster a happy and healthy relationship.

In the second episode, Relationships: Typical Traps to Avoid, we looked at some of the main traps and negative patterns that we're likely to fall into in a relationship if it isn't going as well, plus how we can avoid them.

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.