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Wellbeing Explained

A digital education offering built by mental health experts. For people who, in addition to being curious about wellbeing, look for ways to embed that science into their professional (and personal) practices.

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Is it Possible to Live Well with Cancer? | A/Prof Hannah Wardill & Natalie Tuckey

Taking a wellbeing skills program built for workplaces and rebuilding it for people living with a rare, incurable blood cancer.

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A Happy Hour #1

Live with Matt and Joep

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What If Asking the Right Question Could Improve Someone's Wellbeing? | Prof Christian van Nieuwerburgh

Listen now (68 mins) | Christian van Nieuwerburgh has trained thousands of coaches.

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Focus on what's in your control (but not too much)

Watch now | One thoughtful question that sent me down a path of research and reflection

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It's time to shift perspectives in mental health and wellbeing

For anyone responsible for mental health and wellbeing at work: are your current tools and frameworks actually measuring what matters?

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Flourishing with AI

Which parts of our thinking/lives do we want to outsource to AI? And which do we want to keep?

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069 - LIVE from ECPP26: A mental wellbeing taxonomy to clean up the mess of measures in Positive Psychology

In this special episode of Researching Happy, recorded at the European Conference on Positive Psychology in Dublin, Matthew Iasiello from Be Well Co and the University of Adelaide explores one of the most pressing issues in wellbeing science: the fragmented and inconsistent definitions of wellbeing.

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Joy for the joyless

Or are we forever doomed to live life as Oscar the Grouch?

068 - Flourishing with AI: Virtue Ethics and the Risks of Outsourcing Our Humanity

In this episode of Researching Happy, Dr.

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Do you have a fear of Happiness?

Why some people dread being too happy

067 - Building Societies for Human Wellbeing: Stress, Social Conditions, and Flourishing | Dr. Matthew Fisher

In this episode of Researching Happy, host Dr.

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Why learning to be on your own side might be the most important thing you do this year

#24 Self acceptance: the wellbeing dimension we keep skipping over

Our mental health system will never value wellbeing (and what we can do to change it)

Joep's talk at the QLD Mental Health Commission Reform Summit, now available to watch

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066 - Time for a Reset: The Future of Positive Psychology | Prof Aaron Jarden

In this episode of Researching Happy, host Matt welcomes back Professor Aaron Jarden, who recently moved to Perth and took on the role of Associate Dean (Postgraduate) in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University (ECU).

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If you do not invest in your people’s mental health capability now, you risk losing them later

The insights from SuperFriend’s 2026 Indicators of a Thriving Workplace every wellbeing professional needs to know.

065 - Are We Preventing Suicide in One Room and Assisting It in Another? A/Prof Kristin Collier

We all agree that something is deeply wrong with how we die today.

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The science of cultivating calm and why trying to relax might not be the answer

Calmness: Part 2

The state of calm in wellbeing science

Calmness is globally sought, but its importance has been underscored and undervalued in Western psychology and wellbeing science. Here's what the science actually tells us

064 - Compassion isn't weak or soft, but what is it? | A/Prof James Kirby

In this heartfelt and practical conversation, Matt sits down with Associate Professor James Kirby — clinical psychologist, Director of Clinical Psychology Programs at the University of Queensland, and co-director of the Compassionate Mind Research Group.

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What's the state of the global workplace?

A Be-Well-Know-How data-deep-dive on Gallup's latest workplace wellbeing report