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Pacific Partnership in our own words

Friday, July 29, 2016

Giving to Avondale’s Annual Appeal this year will help reduce the “crippling” burden of chronic disease in the South Pacific islands. Donations to the appeal will provide seed money to Pacific islanders so they can begin postgraduate study in lifestyle medicine. The idea for this Pacific Partnership came from two academics. They talk in this post about the potential impact of the partnership and the role of lifestyle medicine in improving the quality of our health and wellbeing.

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Living deliberately

Thursday, June 16, 2016

In the mid-19th century, renowned American philosopher Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months and two days living in a tiny cabin he built in the woods surrounding Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Part social experiment and part spiritual quest, he lived in simple, spartan-like conditions and wrote of his observations …

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Living deliberately

Friday, March 11, 2016

President Professor Ray Roennfeldt on what developing the power to think and do can do for you.

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Opening Convocation 2016

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

In by Avondale College of Higher Education

Celebrating the start of the academic year at Avondale College of Higher Education with President Professor Ray Roennfeldt.