Learning and resources

Lunch + Learn: Acceptance

This month, Keith Woods, clinical psychologist, will help us with the challenge of Acceptance after brain injury.

Headway’s position on mandatory helmets for e-scooters

Lunch + Learn: Fatigue

This month, we'll be focusing on managing fatigue after brain injury and sharing practical tips to help manage your energy and support wellbeing.

Lunch + Learn: Aphasia

This month, speech language therapist Christa Grbin shared practical tips for dealing with word finding challenges after brain injury.

Lunch + Learn: Addiction

After brain injury, people are twice as likely to experience addiction problems. This month, we explored ways to cope and where to get help.

Lunch + Learn: Finding calm & focus

Discover how you can reduce overwhelm to find calm and regain focus after concussion or brain injury with our guest speaker Olivia Bloom, registered psychologist and friend of Headway.

Head Space: a handbook for brain injury

A helpful resource about brain injury for people affected and their whānau.

Sue’s Advice for Managing Fatigue

Fatigue is a common symptom after concussion and brain injury. Sue shares some of the tips and tricks she has learned to cope with her fatigue. 

Advice to Friends and Family: Our Real Stories

If you could give one piece of advice to your friends and family, what would it be? That was the question we asked a group of our community who are living with brain injury. Their answers are honest and real.