Posts by Kyle MacDonald
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Speaker: Rugby, Racing and Emotions, in reply to ,
No, I'm saying, in a very generalised way that emotional repression is behind a lot of the problematic "externalisation behaviours" that men exhibit when distressed, depressed, or traumatised. And that further the more, as men in particular, we can get comfortable with feeling, tolerating and verbalising emotions the better.
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Speaker: Rugby, Racing and Emotions, in reply to simon g,
I agree. This post came about because of an actual request from TV news to talk about "how to cope". Got me thinking about the hype, what matters, why, and how it doesn't at all really.
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Speaker: Rugby, Racing and Emotions, in reply to andin,
Not a fan then, I take it?
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Sacha,
Limited knowledge to be honest, Workwise and Pathways do good stuff, and are a natural fit with the policy. I'm reluctant to level too much negative at them: they're just looking for money to do the work they already do, this Govt has made it clear they intend to stave NGO's of funds...
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Sacha,
Yup, and with all information locked down to Members written questions and OIA requests due to "commercial sensitivity". ANZ and Westpac will act as brokers, so there will be another layer of admin and complication/ cost. And we'll be tied in regardless of election results until at least 2017...
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think it's more that they're saying they have no interest in "how". To me this is the danger.
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Apologies if this has been posted already, but I found it helpful... http://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/management/2015/02/11/anti-social-finance/
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Sacha,
Very interesting, in particular the quote:
"There is a clue to this mindset in the 2013 cabinet paper mentioned above. It says “government agencies are now focusing on what is being achieved, not how services are delivered.”
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Exactly. All Jonathan Coleman has said about the potential for cherry picking (detailed in the De Boni article as a dangerous disaster in the North Carolina mental health service 'experiment') is "Don't worry that won't happen. "
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to ,
I was part of a group that successfully lobbied to overturn the changes to the ACC Sensitive Claims counselling funding in 2009. The Govt backtracked under pressure and via a Ministerial Review, we've ended up with a treatment system that most believe is better in many ways that what we had.
If a group of people are committed to working hard enough, and enough people are outraged, these things can be stopped.