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By TRACEY ROXBURGH
What’s believed to be a New Zealand-first mental health workshop’s literally took flight in Queenstown yesterday.
Connect and Care founder Mel Haarer launched a free pilot programme, Health and Happiness, last November to help the Whakatipu community deal with the impacts of
Covid-19.
Since then, she’s put some serious thought into how best to continue that work.
‘‘My fear was that the wellbeing space here in Queenstown has become so highly competitive that it’s hard to secure a sustainable position moving forward in our small community, especially with businesses suffering so much and unable to invest