by admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Enroute to spend a family holiday with my parents at Guerella Bay on the south coast of New South Wales (in eastern Australia), my wife and son and I stayed with my lifelong friend Harry and his family. Harry is a fire ecologist and environmental educator. Like... 
by admin | Feb 3, 2020 | Informative
Ethical and Moral Pluralism in Multidisciplinary Community Service Delivery A ‘Code of Conduct’ is a pretty stock standard and generic approach within organisations and companies, used to temper the potential vagrancies of human behaviour, in a workplace setting.... 
by admin | Jan 4, 2020 | Evidence-based Theory & Knowledge from Lived-Experience, Informative
Did you leave your remote community for a trip to your ‘other’ home to a more urban area this Christmas or NY? Did it hit you hard? Culture shock is not a new malady but has been around since the beginning of time (Wallen, 1967, p. 722). ‘Reverse culture... 
by admin | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
This article briefly introduces a very basic understanding of the psychological principles to the internal processes of how schemas work and how the superwoman syndrome (or superman?) and core beliefs might be related to that. There is good reason to... 
by admin | Nov 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
The fact we have become an extremely consumeristic society is often swept under the rug in general conventional discussions about where our community life has gone wrong. The conversation usually leans more towards the concept of ‘political consumerism’, which... 
by admin | Jul 8, 2019 | Informative
Introduction World Central conducted the pilot research with the aim of gaining greater insight into the experiences of leaders and practitioners, who deliver primary health, education, essential and community services and development in remote Indigenous communities... 
by Shelley Madden | Jun 27, 2019 | Informative, Mentoring
An Australian organisation helping support workers in remote Indigenous communities, has used its key-note address at the Queensland Rural Medical Family Network AGM this month, to help build resilience in the bush. World Central Founder, Shelley Madden delivered the... 
by admin | Jun 2, 2019 | Meet the Mentor
In the beginning, what motivated you to work and live in remote Indigenous communities? I came to Central Australia for the first time in July 2007. I was working in Buenos Aires University teaching photography to young people and went to visit my boyfriend Be, who... 
by admin | May 4, 2019 | Informative, Mentoring
There’s nothing like a brilliant story, or a good yarn. Narratives and stories can build us up to greatness and break us down. Stories are an ancient part of human beings and existence, and are a powerful agent for... 
by admin | Apr 15, 2019 | Informative, Mentoring
When you consider how rarely it’s discussed publicly, it’s hard to believe that anxiety is the most common mental health condition in Australia. (Beyond Blue, 2018., & Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2008). The irony is, that while anxiety is a...
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