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About Us
The Company
The Healthy Thinking Institute Ltd was formed by Dr Tom Mulholland, a General Practitioner and e-health pioneer with a reputation as an innovator in e-health and mental health.
Dr Tom founded Doctor Global in 1998, delivering many on line consultations and designing a central medical record from which e-care for Moods was provided to Kaiser Permanente in the USA and Louisiana Health Care.
The Healthy Thinking concept was formed by Dr Tom when he suffered from depression after the breakdown of his marriage in 2000. Despite being a doctor and being put on medication he felt there had to be a better way to control his mood. He found Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to be very effective and undertook training in Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT).
Finding it difficult to access good treatment despite his knowledge and contacts, Dr Tom began to form an everyman's approach to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and to accept speaking engagements on the topic. Recording mood data from over 5000 workers in businesses he addressed, Dr Tom, with the assistance of Graeme Beals, his mentor and publisher, wrote an international best seller on the topic, called Healthy Thinking® which is in 12 countries and has sold over 20,000 copies in New Zealand alone.
The book is recommended to patients by many GPs and Healthy Thinking® has successfully been used to treat a large number of patients with anxiety, depression and OCD using a CBT model.
Dr Tom went on to host his own daily TV show Dr Tom "The Attitude Doctor" which covered topics such as depression, refining the Healthy Thinking approach further before writing another successful follow up book; The Power of Healthy Thinking in which Attitude States (as opposed to traits) are discussed. This is also on the best seller list in countries like India.
In 2006 Dr Mulholland founded The Healthy Thinking Institute Ltd, with Graeme Beals becoming its first shareholder responsible for translating the Healthy Thinking concepts into educative materials. Graeme realised that Dr Tom was so busy doctoring, researching, speaking and writing that his valuable ideas would not ‘go global' without the use of modern educative technologies.
A former teacher and university lecturer, Graeme had become an educational publisher and business entrepreneur, He worked on the development of Dr Tom's teachings from his lectures, first into books, then into a one-day face to face course that could be delivered by trained professionals, then from that, into the substantial e-course which has so impressed many experts in the e-blended learning field.
The Healthy Thinking Institute began to form ‘faculty' relationships with an aim of further enhancing its teaching and research effectiveness. In 2007 Dr Mulholland was invited to join the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland Medical School, as an honorary lecturer and researcher in recognition of his work on depression, CBT and his research into workplace mental health.
Sharing offices with Professor Rob Kydd, Psychiatrist and Head of Department of Psychological Medicine, and Professor Keith Petrie, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Health Psychology, and working alongside Malcolm Johnson has been a boon in ensuring that all teaching and research by the Institute is conducted to the highest ethical and research standards.
Dr Tom has now given hundreds of presentations on depression, mood, attitude, behaviour and productivity globally to corporations including the likes of Google, Microsoft, HP and Hilton, and to large numbers of physicians right through to community groups and many thousands of individual people have received help, all over the world, from the books and the e-course. Many letters are received that indicate that lives have been saved by transformation that Healthy Thinking can offer people.
Dr Tom Mulholland met Dr Paul Englert through research commissioned by the Institute, on the effectiveness of the Healthy Thinking teaching in a work setting. Dr Englert, an occupational psychologist and founder of OPRA Group Ltd, was so impressed with the outcome of the research, he bought into the Healthy Thinking Insititute and with Teresa MacGregor, began working on developing the attitude data Dr Mulholland had collected from over 5000 course attendees, into the first psychometric test for attitude.
The Healthy Thinking Institute Ltd sets lofty goals that include a strong element of charity work conducted through The Healthy Thinking Foundation.
What Is Healthy Thinking?
Have you ever wondered why so much of your energy is consumed with negative, self-defeating thoughts and behaviours?
Do you ever find yourself reacting angrily to situations over which you feel you have no control?
What if you were to be shown a simple way that not only reduces your stress and anxiety, but also delivers better results in every transaction you make with the outside world by simply eliminating internal conflicts?
Healthy ThinkingTM is a set of tools to manage thoughts, attitudes, emotions and behaviors, using a new language of internal and external dialogue. A form of CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) developed by Dr Tom Mulholland and his colleagues. Healthy Thinking is recognised internationally as a useful tool for improving mood, attitude and productivity.
The Healthy Thinking e-course diagnoses and treats the Ten Unhealthy Attitude Profiles©; helps identify unhealthy behaviour patterns and in easy-going style, it replaces them with behaviours that work - in personal relationships (family, friends and lovers) and in business relationships (clients, colleagues and employees).
When used across an organisation, Healthy Thinking® becomes a culture and may even become a brand that promotes efficiency through healthy relationships.
Dr Tom calls Healthy Thinking 'brain surgery without the blood'. It has no negative side effects and you don't need any equipment except your thoughts and the 'tools' supplied by Healthy ThinkingTM.
Healthy ThinkingTM isn't simply the power of positive thinking. Dr Tom and his colleagues have developed systematic methods for applying Healthy Thinking in everyday situations using Emotional AlgebraTM.
Today, right here, you can become part of the growing wave of successful Healthy ThinkingTM champions by enrolling and beginning your ecourse to change your life.
Healthy Thinking's several thousand clients have taken part in workshops (physical and on line) identifying common symptoms such as stress, anger and frustration. These have been related to situations and triggers which generate a number of thoughts. Based on CBT and Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) patients are taught a simple technique we call Emotional Algebra® that they can apply whenever they feel an alarm emotion, to identify the trigger, and then the thought that they generated in response to it. They are taught techniques for reworking this thought to a more helpful one, and given a ‘language' to do it with.
Over years of online testing, a number of patterns and core beliefs have been identified, that tend to characterize the natural brain-language individuals fall into when self-talking in response to a trigger. Each person uses a different mix but there are 10 core types. Most people utilise a mix of two or three of these.
These patterns and core beliefs (attitudes) have been given easily identifiable profiles and names, and we have developed a way to counteract them, with Healthy Thinking® ‘cure' profiles. Multi choice ipsative (measuring yourself against yourself - eg a choice you make now compared with one you made previously) profiling tools are used so participants can identify their predominant ‘unhealthy thinking' attitude patterns and change them to more healthy patterns.
The combination of personal history, CBT techniques, profiling, diaries and exercises makes Healthy Thinking® a unique proposition. Its ability to be delivered in a standardized format with repetitive dosing as a "cogniceutical" will revolutionize the way we look at and treat mental illness. Our research (over 6000 people) shows that that there is significant morbidity and mortality in the workplace, with individuals on average claiming that they are experiencing over the most recent month at home and work;
Frustration 40% of the time
Stress 33% of the time
Anger 20% of the time
Anxiety 22% of the time
Rejection 18% of the time.
This has huge implications for productivity improvement in the workplace.
Healthy Thinking is simple, effective and understood by all demographics and cultures we have come across. Once learnt it is not forgotten. It is like anti-virus software for the mind. Patients need to run it to be effective.
In Japan, legislation has recently required businesses to be responsible for worker obesity, with government imposed penalties for each worker in excess of a set margin. Such coercive health interventions at work will increasingly become the norm as the costs associated with stress, depression and their general health impacts are becoming higher - too high for nations to afford.
Healthy Thinking will be a critical tool in assisting businesses to cure the root problems that make their workers overeat, use drugs in undesirable ways and otherwise express stress related self-harm and destructive attitudes.
Some of the areas Healthy ThinkingTM covers include;
- How to identify which parts of your thinking are unhealthy.
- How to eliminate unhealthy thinking.
- How to identify unhealthy emotions.
- Using Emotional AlgebraTM to manage your internal conflict.
- How to choose an attitude that will help you achieve success.
- Converting Healthy ThinkingTM into successful behaviour.
- How to overcome the fear of change.
- Learn to live in the moment - to 'lighten up' - and enjoy it.
Our products and services
on-line Digital Learning Solution in Healthy Thinking
Healthy Thinking books
keynote and workshop presentations
Attitude Profiler Diagnostic Test to report and remediate your own unhealthy Attitudes and those of others.
Why Use Healthy Thinking?
Unhealthy emotions and behaviors are a direct result of unhealthy thinking. As Dr Mulholland describes it, this can be due to a combination of software (mind) and hardware problems (brain).
Healthy Thinking® is like anti-virus software for the mind. Dr Mulholland believes that our mind is our biggest competitor if it's not running correctly. Research shows that on average people spend 40% of their lives being frustrated, 33% being stressed and 20% being angry. The costs of this on health, relationships and productivity are profound. We see people enter the "Spiral of Disengagement©" through habitual use of the Ten Unhealthy Attitude Profiles©.
So not only can Healthy Thinking® make you more productive and satisfied, it can help you diagnose and treat unhealthy thinking, poor attitudes, damaging emotions and unhealthy behaviors in others.
Independent research on our effectiveness in a business setting a year after the course was run, found that 75% of workers thought that Healthy Thinking® had created long term positive behavioural change for them at work. Of these people, 100% thought the change would be permanent! 92% of people claimed Healthy Thinking® very effective or effective as a tool to improve their relationships at home, while no one found it NOT effective!
Our products and services
on-line Digital Learning Solution in Healthy Thinking
Healthy Thinking books
keynote and workshop presentations
Attitude Profiler Diagnostic Test to report and remediate your own unhealthy Attitudes and those of others.
What are the benefits of Healthy thinking?
An independent research company; Occupational Psychology Research Associates (OPRA) was approached by the Healthy Thinking Institute www.healthythinking.biz in 2007 to independently evaluate the possible benefits of the corporate Healthy Thinking® program a year after the course was run.
The results were impressive as has been explained in the preceeding section.
- 75% thought Healthy Thinking® had created long term positive behavioural change for them at work.
- Of these people, 100% thought the change would be permanent!
- 92% of people found Healthy Thinking® very effective or effective at improving their home relationships
- No one found Healthy Thinking® NOT effective!
And as most businesses owners know, today's workforce is often choosing its employer based on its usefulness to their whole life - work and home. A course that helps in both places at once is so valuable. Here is what some of our clients say about this:
The Healthy Thinking® program not only helped create a more productive workplace, it gave our people real tools to improve the quality of their private lives
Grant Simpson, CEO, ACE Insurance
Many thanks indeed for the recent 'healthy thinking' day with our Business Development team. I believe the whole day was a resounding success but I know from talking to the attendees, they found your approach and content not only to be valuable but above all else, practical!
Many of the team have experienced 'management consultants' and the like with mixed results and admitted to being rather cynical at the start of the session. One of the common themes of feedback was that usually such events focus on how to make the individuals more effective in their jobs, what they didn't expect was a very open, honest, eye opening and funny journey into the world of 'healthy thinking'
Mike Nalborczyk, Hotel Manager, Hilton Sydney
Our business unit embraced the concept of healthy thinking following a presentation and workshop from Dr Tom. A team that had been under pressure with high work volumes and falling results embraced the concept of healthy thinking. With Dr Tom's guidance and Healthy Thinking programme, within three months the team was again high performing. Dr Tom's facilitation style was engaging and straightforward, and the team whole heartedly supported the programme. Healthy thinking has had an impact on reducing stress, fostering improved relationships and building a positive work culture.
Mark McSherry, Branch Manager, ACC North Harbour
Research shows that healthy attitudes improve critical productivity Key Performance Indicators such as;
- Staff Engagement.
- Customer and employee satisfaction.
- Recruitment and Retention.
- Profit.
- Health metrics e.g. lost time illness and injury, blood pressure and immune response.
- Relationship management at work and at home.
If you are looking to develop and improve skills of self and team management through a well-defined and proven program, we recommend Healthy Thinking® to you.
Completing this course and applying the tools will change your life, and give you the ability to change others.
Our products and services
on-line Digital Learning Solution in Healthy Thinking
Healthy Thinking books
keynote and workshop presentations
Attitude Profiler Diagnostic Test to report and remediate your own unhealthy Attitudes and those of others.
Our Research
Brain management concepts from a medico-psychological perspective
There are two major and separate neurological pathways for mood. One is primarily affected by pharmaceuticals such as SSRIs while the other pathway is more affected by Cognition (World Congress of Neuropsychiatry Proceedings: Sydney 2006). In patient terms we often explain that mood can be controlled by the mind (software) and brain (hardware). Just as it is hard to run good software on corrupt hardware, a holistic view of mental health is taught by the Healthy Thinking Institute - ie that good hardware and good software are ideal. Factors such as nutrition, sleep, work-life balance, family history of depression can all affect neurotransmission and the ability to control mood as can rampant emotionality and poor attitudes.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - Healthy Thinking could be said to be an original approach to this and has been designed with CBT research in mind) can be used alone in mild to moderate forms of depression. CBT and Healthy Thinking® have been shown to have long lasting effects, well beyond the half life of pharmaceuticals.
Dr Tom Mulholland has coined the word Cogniceutical© to describe Therapeutic Thoughts which can be administered by e-therapy and electronic messaging.
Healthy Thinking® has been shown to be effective, with 92% of people surveyed finding Healthy Thinking® very effective or effective at home and no one thought it had not been effective in improving mood and relationships. Of those independently evaluated by psychology company OPRA Group, 75% of people thought Healthy Thinking® had created long term behavioural change at work. Of those 100% thought the change would be permanent, one year after the training.
E-Therapy gives a perfect platform for standardisation of treatment and monitoring of results. It will provide a research tool to understand incidence, consistency and benchmarking of diagnosis. This will lead in to further development of efficacious ‘cogniceuticals' which lower the burden of depression and other mental health disorders.
Concept
There are two major and separate neurological pathways for mood. One is primarily affected by pharmaceuticals such as SSRIs while the other pathway is more affected by Cognition (World Congress of Neuropsychiatry Proceedings: Sydney 2006). In patient terms we often explain that mood can be controlled by the mind (software) and brain (hardware). Just as it is hard to run good software on corrupt hardware a holistic view of mental health is taught by the Healthy Thinking Institute. Factors such as nutrition, sleep, work-life balance, family history of depression can all affect neurotransmitters and the ability to control mood.
If hardware (brain and chemical factors) is treated pharmaceutically by General Practitioners or Psychiatrists, Cognitive behavioural Therapy is more effective in combination. CBT can also be used alone in mild to moderate forms of depression. CBT and Healthy Thinking® have been shown to have long lasting effects, well beyond the half life of pharmaceuticals.
Dr Tom Mulholland has coined the word Cogniceutical© to describe Therapeutic Thoughts which can be administered by e-therapy and SMS text messaging. He has designed HAPPI© (Heart Attack Prevention though Phone Intervention - see Appendix 1) with Healthphone, the designers of STOMP (Stop Smoking Over Mobile Phones- see Appendix 2) which reduced smoking by half in a clinical trial.
Healthy Thinking® has been shown to be effective with 92% of people surveyed finding Healthy Thinking® very effective or effective at home and no one thought it had not been effective in improving mood and relationships. Of those independently evaluated by psychology company OPRA Group, 75% of people thought Healthy Thinking® had created long term behavioural change at work. Of those 100% thought the change would be permanent, one year after the training.
General Practitioners face a number of challenges in treating depression, anxiety and other disorders such as OCD and addiction. These include factors such as;
- Lack of Exposure to CBT. Many GPs have never been taught or are unaware of basic CBT as a treatment for depression. Therefore when faced with a depressed patient, they are more likely to write a prescription for an SSRI, or refer the patient to a psychologist or "counselling", rather than initiate any form of CBT.
- Resources. Teaching CBT takes time which busy GPs often don't have. It takes at least 20 minutes to get the basics of CBT across to a patient, and that is after the diagnosis is made. There are few simple but effective CBT stories that patients find useful. Often books are more likely to cure insomnia than depression.
- Lack of diagnostic tools or tests for depression that are easily interpreted by patients.
- Lack of consistency of CBT providers and other counsellors and mechanisms for feedback.
- Lack of measurement of compliance.
- Lack of good data on incidence of depression and response to standardised treatments.
Dr Mulholland and his research team into ‘cogniceuticals' believe that CBT based e-therapy should be run similarly to that of a drug or Pharmaceutical Trial.
Following an e-diagnostic on-line questionnaire and assessment tool for depression and core beliefs (attitude states), patients receive a loading dose of a book (bibliotherapy) which has been found to be effective in hundreds of patients. This can also be delivered in the form of an e-book, DVD or CD Rom if necessary.
Further treatment doses of e-therapy are delivered via on-line participation and exercises.
Maintenance doses of the ‘Cogniceutical' are delivered via SMS text message and are customised based on the patient's core beliefs and attitude profile.
Compliance is checked and therapeutic effects of each on-line or text intervention measured by feedback on the website and return SMS. This enables researchers to assess the most efficacious ‘cogniceuticals' and to determine if there are in fact any non-therapeutic messages.
Dr Mulholland firmly believes in e-therapy for a number of reasons.
Standardised assessment tools of mood
- Standardised content and treatment dosages.
- Measurement of compliance
- Measurement of outcomes.
- Immediacy of therapy
- Explanation and destigmatisation of condition
- Possibility of on-line help.
To put this in real terms, Patient A goes to see GP Z who diagnoses depression based on history. No diagnostic tool is used. An SSRI is prescribed and the patient referred to psychologist T. The waiting time is 2 weeks and the patient has little immediate follow up. Psychologist T delivers a variant of CBT and Gestalt therapy and may write a letter to the GP. Success of treatment is not recorded.
Patient B could have seen GP Y who took a different approach. No SSRI, referral to a different counsellor and some ST John's Wort and Hypnosis.
E-Therapy gives a perfect platform for standardisation of treatment and monitoring of results. It will provide a research tool to understand incidence, consistency and benchmarking of diagnosis. This will lead in to further development of efficacious ‘cogniceuticals' which lower the burden of depression and other mental health disorders.
| UNHEALTHY | HEALTHY |
| The Demander | The Trader |
| The Judge | The Advocate |
| The Doom Merchant | The Spin Doctor |
| The Distorter | The Rationalist |
| The Generalist | The Statistician |
| The Fortune Teller | The Explorer |
| The Justifier | The Realist |
| The Telepathist | The Journalist |
| The Denialist | The Acceptor |
| The Extremist | The Negotiator |
1. Healthy thinking on line e-development program. This is a major undertaking and has been well received thus far by the market. It has the ability to provide large scale learning and intervention, targeted at the user's personal results gained from the Attitude Profiler, giving a unique diagnostic and treatment package. The inclusion of a standardised "dose" approach to Healthy Thinking makes it ideal as a research TREATMENT program against targeted KPIs. For example, Healthy Thinking has been proven in randomised controlled trials to;
- Increase workplace KPIs like staff engagement, customer satisfaction and profit
- Reduce lost time injury and illness, complaints, absenteeism and presenteeism (turning up to work but low output) and staff churn.
- Lower Blood sugars and improve diabetic control, reducing costs of treatment
- Lower Blood pressure, therefore reducing morbidity and mortality
- Reduce stress and anxiety
Our products and services
on-line Digital Learning Solution in Healthy Thinking
Healthy Thinking books
keynote and workshop presentations
Attitude Profiler Diagnostic Test to report and remediate your own unhealthy Attitudes and those of others.
Our Faculty
Dr Tom Mulholland
Can you turn your life around simply by changing your mind?
Dr Tom did and from his experience, he has created a life-changing toolkit so that you can too.
The Healthy Thinking® approach helps people live the life they dream. Dr Tom has survived a Tsunami, divorce, single parenthood, the dot com crash, has even been stabbed by home invaders yet he still has a smile on his face. Dr Tom has influenced tens of thousands of people worldwide to find a better way to be, with his Healthy Thinking® approach.
Yes! You can make crucial changes in your thinking that will change the outcome of most situations - not just in times of crisis but in every part of your life.
Dr Tom, with a First Class Honours degree in Molecular biology and a Medical Doctorate, has had an amazing career that has also included being a Forest Ranger, Pilot and Entrepreneur. He still works part time as a Doctor in a busy Emergency Department of a hospital.
In spite of his impressive CV Dr Tom learned through personal experience that life sometimes serves us lemons.
Dr Tom Mulholland DOB 10.2.62
Educational Qualifications
- B Sc (Hons) 1st Division 1st Class. University of Canterbury Molecular Genetics
- MB ChB University of Otago 1989
- Post Graduate Diploma Sports Medicine 1994
In Progress
- Post Graduate Certificate in REBT
Current Appointments
- Honorary Lecturer Dept of Psychological Medicine Auckland University School of Medicine
- Locum Senior Registrar/ MOSS Auckland Hospital Adult Emergency Department
- Locum Senior Medical officer Taranaki Base Hospital
- GP Locum Oneroa Accident and Medical Centre Waiheke Island
- Chairman Health Intelligence Ltd: HIQ JV Capital and Coast DHB and Taranaki DHB 2003-current Shared Services organisation with Capital and Coast DHB and Tarnaki DHB. Annual Budget $19 million; Staff 130
- Elected Member Taranaki District Health Board 2000-2006
- Taranaki Medical Foundation 2001 - current
- Director: Healthy Thinking Institute
Previous Appointments
- Chairman LABCare Taranaki DHB Pathology Services 2001-2006
- Vice Chairman Taranaki District Health Board Hospital Advisory Committee 2001-2004
- CEO Doctor Global Ltd 1997- 2001
- Founding Clinical Director White Cross Taranaki 1995-1998
- General Practitioner and Partner Vivian Medical Centre New Plymouth 1994-2000
- Orthopaedic Registrar Taranaki Base Hospital 1992
- Locum Medical Officer Chatham Islands Hospital 2003
- Senior House Officer Christchurch Hospital 1991
- House Surgeon Taranaki Base Hospital 1990
- Civil Aviation Authority: Designated Medical Examiner 1996-1999
Recent applicable Conferences
- World Congress of Neuropsychiatry Sydney 2006
- Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (SIOP) San Francisco 2008
- Workshop Half day "World Class E-learning" at SIOP 2008
- Microsoft Health Users Group conference, MSHuge Brussels 2000
Significant Achievements/Awards
- Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Most innovate business 1997 White Cross
- Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Best Medium sized business Doctor Global
Professional Societies/Service/Other Activities
- Member International Neuro-Psychiatry Association 2006/2007
- National Speaker Association 2005 current
- Delegate 6th World Congress of Neuro-Psychiatry: Sydney 2006
Teaching
- Medical Student Psychological medicine teaching program 2008 Auckland School of Medicine
- Taranaki Base Hospital RMO Teaching Program 2002 to current. Teaching House Surgeons and Registrars Healthy Thinking®, and strategies to reduce stress in the workplace.
- Sovereign Insurance. Year long teaching program to staff on Healthy Thinking®, some basic neuroscience and physiology. Basis of CBT and connection with stress and performance. 2006/7
- ACC Series of workshops to senior management in Wellington and Healthy Thinking® Champions program in ACC North Harbour Branch. Healthy Thinking® and stress, physiology and some neuroscience. Also cardiovascular and attitudinal health for prevention.
- Microsoft/Hewlett Packard and Telecom Business Club Speaker 2004. Lecture tour of New Zealand in 14 Cities teaching business people about Health, Attitude, Stress and performance.
- Healthy Thinking® Schools Project. Waitara High School. Five year project training staff and students principles of Healthy Thinking®. Waitara High School to become first Healthy Thinking® School.
- Commonwealth Bank Executive Leaders Course. Teaching top 70 leaders in bank basis of Healthy Thinking®. Workshops on stress, fatigue and prevention of disease by attitudinal change. Emotional algebra and Attitude Profiling
- Work and Income 3 year project getting sickness beneficiaries back to work by changing their attitude. Teaching basic life skills, behavioural change and CBT.
- Over 1000 hours in the past 5 years running teaching workshops on Healthy Thinking®, stress, biological effects and cognitive strategies to avoid illness.
Career Research Specialties:
Undergraduate
As an undergraduate at Otago University I had a strong interest in mental health research. I chose to do 2 pieces of original research.
- Reminiscence in The Elderly - a case control study I designed matching rest home and domiciled people in their own home to look at the difference Reminiscing made to their adaptation to old age. As a 3rd year medical student with Professor John Campbell as my supervisor. Won the New Zealand Essay prize in Geriatrics.
- Suicide: Is it Preventable or Predictable - 5th year medical student project - 10 year review of suicides that had been seen by the Crisis team in Christchurch, looking for any warning signs that may have predicted or prevented suicide.
Graduate
- Diploma of Sports medicine - reviewed Head Injury in Rugby Players with and without headgear.
- Healthy Thinking institute - collected on line data from approximately 2000 individuals answering qualitative and quantitative questions around attitude, behaviour emotions and stress at home and in the workplace. Formed the basis of the 10 Attitude profiles with Antidotes.
Invited lectures
- Monash University 2004 Sydney Rabobank EDPPP program: Healthy Thinking®
- Medical Assurance lecture series to Clinicians 2004 New Zealand wide (10 presentations) on Healthy Thinking®
- Kaiser Group Health 2007 Seattle Physicians meeting on Disability, Keynote Opening presenter
- 1st Global summit of Professional Speakers 2005 Singapore
- Health Care On line Conference 2000, Sydney. : The future of On-line Consultations. Also Chaired afternoon Session
- 4th Conference of Adventure Tour Operators for India; New Delhi 2006. Adventure Tourism in India, The Way Forward
- Aviation and Occupational Health Conference Queenstown (ANZSOM) 2007. Healthy Thinking® in the workplace Keynote Presentation.
- NZ Medical Association GP Conference Wairakei 2005 Keynote Presentation, Healthy Thinking®
- 350 Presentations including keynote and workshops on Healthy Thinking® to groups like Microsoft, Hilton, and Hewlett Packard globally.
Publications
- Mulholland, TA: Healthy Thinking; Reed Publishing New Zealand ; 167 Pages 2004
Also Published in Australia, India, Poland, Brazil, Russia, Malaysia,Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Philippines, Spain, Croatia - Mulholland, TA: The Power of Healthy Thinking; Reed Publishing New Zealand 2005; 159 Pages. Also In India, Spain, Brazil
Videotapes and Films
- Dr Tom "The Attitude Doctor"; 40 Half hour shows on TV2: TVNZ 2006 on Attitude and Health issues. Produced by Top Shelf productions.
- "Neighbours at War", guest expert 2006-2007 Greenstone Pictures.
- "Happiness DVD". Steve Hart Productions 2007
Graeme Beals B Ed (Hons), Dip Tchng, TTC
Graeme was a successful New Zealand school teacher, principal, Teachers College Lecturer and Director of a regional Teachers Centre (In-service Training and resource provider) before setting up an independent educational publishing company in New Zealand (Curriculum Concepts). That company has grown to also include e-delivered education as well as print and general publishing under the name Zenith Publishing Group Ltd, though it is still privately owned by Graeme and his wife Jane, who now runs the company.
Graeme has since been part of two educational IT companies, developed a leading-edge web-based self-publishing business and been General Manager of Distance Education for one of New Zealand's largest private distance educators, developing the distance delivery approach and helping to write the national plan that has now been adopted as the standard for NZ Government funded tertiary distance learning. In that role Graeme was also responsible for the development of a series' of learning CD Roms for tertiary level industry training, that were so successful with learners, 75% of whom were Māori, that doubts were raised as to whether it was possible for people to learn so fast.
Graeme also established and Directs his own finance company, Aspire Finance Ltd and is a significant shareholder and director in a number of syndicated property companies. He assisted Dr Mulholland to write his books and has now joined The Healthy Thinking Institute as a 10% shareholder - a working co-owner, with special responsibility for management, written communications and e-learning methodology.
DR Paul Englert - Opra Group Ltd
DR Paul Englert is a founding Director of OPRA Group Ltd. Paul is a registered psychologist, an ex-chair of the New Zealand Psychological Society I/O division, a supervisor for the psychologist board and was awarded a certificate of appreciation from the New Zealand Psychological Society in 2007 for services to New Zealand Psychology. Paul has a PhD in Psychology awarded for his work with career counselling for the young unemployed. Paul also has a first class honours (BSC) in industrial and organisation, an arts degree majoring in criminology, and a graduate diploma in applied statistics, specialising in evaluation (through Claremount University).
Paul has extensive experience as both an industrial psychologist as well as a youth counsellor. Paul began his career as a youth worker, specializing in working with ‘kids at risk' and juvenile justice. During this time Paul also worked as a telephone counsellor for youthline. As an I/O psychologist Paul and OPRA have completed a range of work related to the current RFP. This includes the creation of online diagnostics through to development of training courses and major evaluation projects. Paul has 14 published articles, is a sought after speaker and appeared on television shows such as Telstra business, Close up, and the psychologist for Target.
Professor Rob Kydd MB ChB, PhD, FRANZCP
Professor of Psychiatry, Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science in 1996. During 1998-1999 he was also Clinical Director of Mental Health Services for Counties Manukau District Health Board and was Chair of the New Zealand Branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists over the same period. In 2000 he became Head of the School of Biomedical & Health Sciences and over 2002-2004 acted as Head of the School of Population Health. He was Deputy Dean of the Faculty from 2002 to 2005 before returning to the Department of Psychological Medicine.
Rob's research interests have ranged from basic neuro-physiological work on the effect of catecholamine neurotransmitters on the electroencephalogram (EEG) to health services research on the needs of long-term psychiatric patients living in the community. More recently he has developed an interest in the role of the workplace in the prevention and management of illness particularly mental illness and has been providing clinical services and opinions to employers and insurers through the occupational medicine clinics at the Tamaki Campus.
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Dr Libardo Dario Suarez Carvajal - IT consultant and Developer
Libardo trained as a Medical Doctor and Surgeon at the National University of Colombia in Bogota in 1989, later emigrating to New Zealand where he has worked in medically related IT since 1999, first with Doctor Global developing the Electronic Health Record project and on e-Care for Moods: a Web based application developed for Kaiser Permanente. He also worked on a project for Louisiana Health Care using the e-Care for Moods core functionality, with some customised UI and functionality then on HTN and Diabetes Chronic Disease Management Software: a Web based application developed for Kaiser Permanente (USA Health provider based in California). Libardo's has also been working for the IMF (International Medical Fund) on a collection of Health Insurance applications data and its management.
Libardo's work has included hardware and software architectural decisions, client requirements gathering and documentation, general and technical scope, technical documentation(data flows, technical help documentation);data base (SQL server) design, developing, implementation and setting of maintenance plans(backups), programming, User Interface design, developing and maintenance (XSLT, HTML, ASP, ASP .Net). Application and Data base testing and tuning of alpha, beta and production versions.
Our products and services
on-line Digital Learning Solution in Healthy Thinking
Healthy Thinking books
keynote and workshop presentations
Attitude Profiler Diagnostic Test to report and remediate your own unhealthy Attitudes and those of others.
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