Welcome Olly!

We have a new Yoga Teacher @Bamboo Yoga! Welcome Olly!

Olly will be teaching Vinyasa on Friday mornings from 6.15am-7am

Olivia has been practicing yoga for over a decade and teaching for the past eight years. She is passionate about movement and has a deep reverence for the practice of drawing awreness inwards. Olivia’s teaching style can be dynamic and physically challenging and will incorporate the traditioanl teachings of yoga including meditation, breathwork and philosophy. Her intention is to support students to feel into their body, connect inwards and to learn how to use movement as medicine.

We are so excited to have you join us, Olly!

2022: Year of the Beast!

Be Health is looking forward to introducing you to “BeastMode” in 2022!

BeastMode: it’s keepin’ me alive

BeastMode: you’re gonna need it to survive

BeastMode: you better weaponise - your body, and your mind!

(Lyrics from “BeastMode” written by Dr Meg, 2021 - song still in production with Beast Associates)

We have new programs to share with you this year, including BeastMode, and we can’t wait!!! But just as Rome wasn’t built in a day… our awesome products and services are taking some time to be converted with utmost quality into formats you can use and benefit from anytime, anywhere in the world. It will be worth the wait! Trust us!!!! Look forward to speaking with you all again very soon! In the meantime, be health!!!!

Research Excellence Award 2020

This was a cool award to receive at the end of 2020… “Research Excellence Award from Griffith University for the Higher Degree Research Student First Author Paper with the most Citations in 2019”. We are looking forward to translating more of this evidence into practical outcomes in 2021 so that everyday people can reap the benefits.

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Welcome Dr Perceval!

On July 1st, 2019, Director Meg Perceval officially became a Doctor. Her thesis: “Translating evidence into practice: rural wellbeing and suicide prevention” sought to better understand farmer suicide so as to better address it. There have been four peer-reviewed published papers to come from this body of work, which adds to an earlier publication focusing on farmer suicide (Perceval et al, 2019; 2018a; 2018b; 2017; 2011). Meg is excited and looking forward to what more will come to help rural communities become healthier and to reduce the unacceptably high rate of suicide.

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Fourth peer-reviewed published paper to come from PhD thesis

This is wonderful news! The fourth peer-reviewed published paper to come from Managing Director, Meg Perceval’s PhD thesis. Meg’s PhD focused on translating evidence into practice for rural suicide. She has three published papers that contribute knowledge towards better understanding farmer suicide, and this fourth paper looks at an intervention to better address farmer suicide. Be Health looks forward to expanding the CARE (formerly SCARF) program to reach more rural Australians so as to reduce suicide.

Article ID: JRH12373

Article DOI: 10.1111/jrh.12373

Article: Evaluation of the SCARF Well-being and Suicide Prevention Program in Australian Rural Communities

Journal: The Journal of Rural Health

Research into farmer suicide

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-018-6287-7

Visit the link above to read our paper regarding social factors and farmer suicide in Australia. This is the 3rd published paper to come from qualitative analysis of focus group data collected as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage grant with the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University. This body of work will help to better understand farmer suicide in Australia, and thereby assist us to be better able to address it.

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Publications

Please click on the link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Qc5zvf63dkGM3AdIhH9v/full  to read our paper on Environmental factors and suicide in Australian farmers: a qualitative study

This paper formed the basis of the presentation Meg gave at the International Association of Suicide Prevention in NZ during May. Meg is incredibly proud of this body of work conducted through an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant. Meg worked with the Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP), Griffith University. A paper on Individual Factors pertaining to farmer suicide has also been published with the Journal of Occupational Medicine; and a social factors paper is currently in review. This knowledge will assist us in better understanding and addressing farmer suicide in Australia.