This past week in Queensland there was a call to remove all reference to religion from the schooling environment for fear that some children were evangelising – or attempting to convert other children to Christianity. See the article here. This…
Flexible work arrangements are pretty attractive, but they are also really good for you and for whatever organisation you work in. I’m sure most people are well aware that flexible work increases wellbeing and work-life balance, but did you know…
School bullying and workplace bullying are pretty similar concepts. Both can be broadly defined as a systematic abuse of power where the victim is made to feel coerced, degraded, humiliated, threatened, intimidated, or frightened. The core concepts of bullying are that it…
If you live in New Zealand or Australia, you know what Tall Poppy Syndrome is, and you have probably experienced it in some form or another. Even though it has many labels around the world, what Tall Poppy Syndrome boils…
American Psychiatrist Peter Kramer said that the opposite of depression is not happiness, but resilience. In our everyday usage, resilience means to bounce back, which is actually the true (in terms of etymology) meaning of the word. Resilience comes from…
Hello everyone and welcome to the blog of Infer Consulting NZ. As a Psychologist (and a hopeless researcher), the first thing I did when thinking about writing this was look at the ethos of blogging. So before we go anywhere…