Author: Alice Peel
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Building resilience in children with ordinary magic
by Alice Peel September 3, 2020 An artist residing in rural Victoria makes herself a cup of tea, heads into her studio and starts the detailed process of creating a portrait entirely out of playdough of someone remarkable. She started this ritual at the beginning of the pandemic. We know this because we asked her to…
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Parent Wellbeing Webinar – Key Messages
by Alice Peel May 29, 2020 We just held out first parent wellbeing webinar. Not a child wellbeing webinar. We love kids, we teach them, we raise them, we write content for their teachers to support their resilience, our evidence-based resources are in 300 schools (you can hear co-founder, Kristina Freeman talk about this in an interview with Channel 7’s The Daily Edition…
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Making parent wellbeing a priority during this next big change
by Alice Peel May 21, 2020 FREE parent wellbeing webinar. ENROL NOW Parents must nurture their own wellbeing during this next big change if they are to be of benefit to the children in their care. We have come so far from the early days of COVID-19. Do you remember the Israeli mother hiding from her…
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Teachers, buckle in. The next big change is here.
by Alice Peel May 20, 2020 HERE WE GO AGAIN. Just when you were starting to find your rhythm of online learning. You became a zoom master. You and google classroom were at one with each other. Potentially you had even started to entertain that this new arrangement of teaching from home could be the future…
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We aren’t getting out of here alive
by Alice Peel January 17, 2020 We are all going to die. Every single one of us. No matter our faith or lack thereof, we all know that one day, our physical self will eventually cease to be. I am a primary school teacher and a co-founder of a small mental health social venture for children,…
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Holiday parent vs school parent. 4 tips to keep your cool with school
January 2020, Alice Peel For many, 2020 in Australia has had an incredibly stressful and horrifying start. Even for those not directly impacted by the fires, the images, smoke, awareness of wildlife in crisis and deep fears of what this all means certainly created an unsettling start to the new year. We have been asked a…
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We all have mental health
by Alice Peel October 8, 2019 Fact: we all have physical health. Most Australian children tend to know how to look after it. They may choose not to, but they understand some of the basics. Brush your teeth, drink water, move your body, eat fresh produce. Do these things and, chances are, you will protect and…
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To be or not to be a B Corp
by Alice Peel December 17, 2018 A little over a year ago we started Grow Your Mind. Our reason for being was and is still simple — to make mental health awareness playful. We had a vision of producing stunning resources that enabled wellbeing to be visible in homes and families. These resources would ideally be produced in…
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Laugh, our final invitation
by Alice Peel October 25, 2018 Outside our first stall, when all else fails humour can go a long way. This is the last of our mental health month blog series. Over 9 weeks we have been exploring each invitation on our Take care of your mind Poster Tina and I have used this last call to action constantly during our…
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Learn Something New
by Alice Peel October 15, 2018 We are nearing towards the end of our exploration of our Checklist for Your Mind poster. Each week we have put a spotlight on one of our mental health invitations. Tina and I love the idea of building resilience from the early years of life and in creating rituals or daily habits…
