Alchemical Health

Join Jen and Stuart for a deep dive into regenerative healthcare with a focus on rehabilitation! We will cover: * Cold water swimming and water metaphors * Leah V Gibbons:  https://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/article/view/0/42386   * Indigenous ways of knowing e.g. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-79622-8_8   * The polycrisis and metacrisis, complexity and VUCA https:/...

Show notes and credits Discussing happiness, and sadness, with Alice Hartop, OT and senior lecturer at UWE Bristol. We bring in relationships, capitalism, wild swimming, belonging, sustainability and a discussion on Earthlings… * Man’s search for meaning - Victor Frankl * Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer * Three ecologies - Felix Guattari * Radical Help - Hillary Cottam * Humankind: A Hop...

Show notes and credits Are we human beings or human doings? Why we need to wake up each morning and have something to do - Jen’s new book. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bored-need-something-every-happens/dp/B0CFCL8PR5/   Boredom: an experience without quality or meaning. Person, Environment, Occupation (PEO) model. Forge: The next time you are bored, unpick your feeling. Why are you bored, what is happ...

This time we follow on from our discussion with Philip Carr-Gomm. We talk about the wheel of the year, the seasons and the moon, and how it might impact on health. We talk FOMO, polypharmacy, immortality, choice, and purpose and meaning. We end with some chanting… Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit License code: BDBKCAXBNB6...

This week we discuss sacrifice with Chosen Druid Emeritus Philip Carr-Gomm. We dive into psychosynthesis, Druidry, creativity and psilocybin. Floating on the sea, doing nothing. Loosening and contracting, solve et coagula. We then explore wibbling as a key creative process… this does not involve sticking pencils up your nose. Australia ban vaping: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-6544635...

Katherine Long is our guest this week. Katherine’s website says: Bringing regenerative principles to life. Coach, author, supervisor, facilitator, supporting leadership and eldership. Katherine, Jen and Stuart talk about creativity as a survival mechanism, fractal patterns, animism, pollution, and healing. Katherine picks up on the wisdom of living systems, Theory U, and biomes. Exchange reciproci...

This week Jen and Stuart reflect on the discussion with Mick Collins. They talk about taking small steps when the large ones are daunting, the habits we form, and hats. They cover the three layers of regeneration: personal, societal and planetary, asking what are we doing that nourishes each of these. They discuss “agency”, depersonalisation, heroes and saviours, and windows. Music: Pursuit by Abb...

Show notes and credits This time we discuss occupational intelligence, the environmental crisis, doing with depth, lava lamps and thaumaturgy with Mick Collins, Occupational Therapist and Psychotherapist. Mick Collins website: https://www.transformocene.co.uk   Teal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_organisation   Buurtzorg https://www.buurtzorg.com/   Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformat...

We explore last episode’s discussion with Caroline Jessel in more depth, asking how can we stop kids falling in the river so that we don’t have to keep pulling them out. Show notes and credits Our world in data: https://ourworldindata.org/   Six step model of ecotherapy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31973063/   Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbea...

Exploring the role of Nature in healing trauma. Dr Jessel founded Dandelion Time: "a nature-based charity that works with children and their wider family to overcome issues and difficulties. We help them find opportunities for change and rebuild relationships while creating happy memories along the way." https://dandeliontime.org.uk/ This amazing charity provides a therapeutic environmen...

Going a bit deeper into what we want to explore in this series. A look at laughter, nature, the directions, the elements, art and creativity and so on.  Show notes and credits Benefits of urban green spaces: Turunen AW, Halonen J, Korpela K , et al Cross-sectional associations of different types of nature exposure with psychotropic, antihypertensive and asthma medication Occupational and Environme...

Introducing Jen Gash and Stuart Jeffery; introducing creativity, sustainability, and nature in both health and healthcare; a bit of light banter; and a bit of a plan for the coming weeks! Show notes and credits Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX This is a public episode. If you would like to d...