Comments and Musings
This podcast by Francis Lynch sometimes has guests and has comments and musings on issues in the social justice, leadership, and community service spaces. It would be great if you would click the subscribe button for this Podcast in whatever Podcast Player you're using, and you'll get each new episode that I release.
Episodes
Gratitude is a powerful emotion that can have a significant impact on your mental and physical health, relationships, and overall wellbeing. By understanding the science behind gratitude, practicing gratitude daily, and cultivating gratitude in our lives, we can experience the many benefits of this powerful emotion. So why not start today and begin to experience the power of gratitude for a more meaningful life?
Mindfulness has been shown to have a positive impact on various aspects of our lives, including work. By reducing stress, improving focus and attention, building better relationships, and increasing creativity and innovation, mindfulness can help to improve employee engagement in the workplace.
There are many different mindfulness practices that can be used in the workplace, many of them quite easily integrated into workplace prac...
The difference between the meaning "of" life and meaning "in" life is an important distinction to make. My musing on this distinction reflects that the meaning of life is a more abstract and universal concept, whilst meaning in life is more personal and specific.
The blog post for this episode is here
I like things to go the way that I expect them to – most of the time anyway. A predictable life with lots of routines and habits means I don’t have to think about every little thing that I do. What I hadn’t appreciated until recently was how these routines help me find more meaning in my life. Not in the sense of helping me find the “Meaning OF life” – more the sense of finding life to be meaningful and that it makes sense.
In this episode Matt Jackman and Harmonie Jackman, brother and sister, talk about their experiences during the lengthy lockdown periods in Melbourne during two waves of Covid-19 in 2020. Matt and Harmonie both live with Bi-Polar and discuss with me how thier support services have adapted to the changed circumstances this year.
They talk about how their NDIS Support Coordinator has been working with them to deliver flexibility in ho...
In this episode I speak to Dave Pugh, the CEO at Anglicare NT, who has worked in the community sector for many years across Australia. Working in Darwin and regional parts of the Northern Territory during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 has been quite different to the experiences of other parts of Australia. Join me as Dave and I talk about how Covid has influenced work in the NT.
Margaret Augerinos is the CEO at the Centre for Non Violence and has worked in leadership in the family violence area for many years. Margaret has led CNV through some major changes in 2020, starting new services, advertising their services in the mainstream media when referrals significantly dropped, and keeping all their staff connected and engaged during 2 lockdowns.
John Cleary has worked in leadership positions and consulted to the residential aged care sector and is the Managing Director of Blue Chip Consulting Group. He has some clear views on why the sector has struggled with Covid in 2020.
Karyn Walsh AM is the CEO of Micah Projects in Queensland. She has been leading the organisation for many years and also led many sector projects at a state and national level. Her commitments have included leading Chairing the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness, and being a past President of the Queensland Council of Social Services.
In this interview Karyn talks about how the outreach nature of Micah's services has been chal...
It appears that some private corporations see a market opportunity in helping to address, and maybe even solve, wicked problems like homelessness and domestic violence. Is that ok? Does it matter? If it does what is to be done to create a different future?
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