Family and Child Consultants

The only constant in life is change. Heraclitus was right when he said that – change is the only constant in life.    It couldn’t be truer than in today’s work environment.    Staff change, the NDIS seems to be ALWAYS changing, our participants change, and companies restructure, grow    and reorganise. Unfortunately, change isn’t always easy. A study from the Australian Psychological Association (APA) found that organizational changes such as restructuring or new leadership can lead to employees who are overly stressed, have less trust in their employers, and have a greater desire to find new jobs. While coping with change in the workplace can be challenging, there are ways to make it easier. Here are my top five tips for dealing with change in a way that will benefit you and your career: 1.    Embrace new opportunities According to Ian McClarty, “The silver lining to any change in the workplace is opportunity, often to add new skills to your repe...

  Last night, a terrible thing happened.   2 Police Officers in Queensland, just doing their job, were killed.     As hard as it is to process all the negative things happening in the world as an adult, it’s even more challenging for children. That’s where parents come in.  Children look to their parents to help them make sense of the world around them and when bad things happen, kids take their cues from their parents, and they look to us as models to help them gauge how they should process or cope with difficult information.   Talking to children about the news is an important way to educate them, normalize feelings, help them feel safe and inspire them to take positive action.  Discussing difficult national and world events often provides key opportunities for parents to reaffirm family values with their children.    Many difficult events create tangible opportunities to discuss important societal issues that transcend indiv...

Resilience is the shock absorber for tough times, and there surely will be tough times occasionally. The only people who don’t experience bumpy waters are people who are not doing anything. The rest of us are out there trying to do outsized things and that, by definition is fraught with danger and the very real possibility of failure. Sometimes that failure is public. Sometimes it’s private. But either way, it always hurts. And, when it stings like that it is hard not to think about giving up, no matter how brave we are or how committed. Heartbreak can send us into a tailspin emotionally. Resilience is the tool that helps us level off and find smooth air and keep flying. Without it every failure would stop us dead in our tracks. I loved Angela Duckworth’s book, Grit. Her thesis is really powerful: No matter our backgrounds or educational institution or family or how we were brought up, only one thing truly determines our success or failure in this life. It’s the ability to finish. Resi...