GMA Conference Wrap
PRESENTATIONS: DAY 2
The program’s second day brought
attention to our mental and physical health
and how to overcome adversity in life.
days you can rewire your brain to start
scanning the world for the positive with the
long-term benefit of this approach being
lower levels of depression and anxiety.
DISCOVERING RESILIENCE
- TEACHING AUSTRALIANS
TO BE MENTALLY HEALTHY
With a bright and early start of
8am on the Wednesday morning,
Hugh van Cuylenburg, Founding
Director of The Resilience Project,
introduced the delegates to the
GEM concept:
• Gratitude - ability to focus on what you
have, not what you don’t have.
• Empathy – acts of kindness – release of
exotoxin
• Mindfulness – ability to be in the present
moment and the way we prevent anxiety
In short, the GEM concept is designed to help
you to get up in life after inevitably falling
down from time to time. When practicing
GEM, you will bounce back quicker after
falling down the spectrum, and in being more
resilient you are less likely to suffer anxiety.
Furthermore, van Cuylenburg explained how
positive risk taking and learning how to deal
with adversity would increase resilience. He
presented an easy guide of how to practise
gratitude:
• What was the best thing that happened
to me today?
• Who and I most grateful for today and
why?
• What am I looking forward to most about
tomorrow?
He also explained in closing how after 21
BOOST PERFORMANCE &
PRODUCTIVITY - LEARN
HOW TO BOOST YOUR
PERFORMANCE AND
PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH
HEALTH & NUTRITION
Nutritionist Dr Joanna McMillan
emphasized the link between
mental and physical health in the
next presentation, explaining how
joy is a vital part of any lifestyle
change, including dieting.
McMillan offered some healthy tips to a
better diet, including avoiding too many
quick carbs, eating more plant based food
and switching up your diet in order to
promote a healthy gut balance.
Educating the audience in nutritious food
and the importance in physical activity, she
explained how there’s no magic pill – you
have to the do the hard work yourself.
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