New online tool kit - "ifarmwell"
"ifarmwell" is a new online tool kit, designed by Australian farmers to help other Australian farmers to cope effectively with life’s challenges and get the most out of every day.
The website shares practical ways of coping with difficult circumstances, thoughts and feelings (especially worries about things you can’t control) and helping you to work out where it is most useful for you to put your attention and energy.
You can do this from the privacy of your home, tractor or shed. The site will even send you text message reminders to keep you focused, and it is free!
There are five modules for you to work through at your leisure:
- Module 1: Taking stock of your current wellbeing and some practical strategies to get you started
- Module 2: Thoughts are like bullies – how to spend less time ‘in your head’
- Module 3: Doing what really matters – how to get the most out of a busy life
- Module 4: Training your ‘attention muscle’ and focusing on the ‘here and now’ – a more pleasant, less exhausting place to be
- Module 5: Putting it all together and moving forward
Allow 30-40 minutes to do a module. The next module will then be made available to you two weeks later (you will receive a text message to let you know). This will give you time to test out and get good at using your new tools from one module, before learning more in the next. Please be patient and try to complete each module in full. However, if you do have to stop part way through a module, you can use the ‘Save and continue later’ button and return at a later date.
We think you will find it interesting, and even, at times fun. By the end of the modules, the aim is for you to be less focused on thoughts and things you can’t control and more focused on your family, friends, farm or whatever it is that matters to you most.
