Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing

Liam Mac Gabhann in conversation with Martha Griffin, Ciara Glynn and Rebecca Fitzpatrick   Peer Support in Mental Health as an accredited national qualification since 2016 is entering a second decade. Six years into Sharing the Vision (2020), mental health policy intending to embed peer support working into all aspects of statutory service and support peer led community services. One could imagin...

Liam Mac Gabhann of Mad In Ireland in conversation with Siobhan Madden, Engaged Eco Artist 'Ecological Art' is a genre that emerged in the 1990s but in which was largely influenced by practices which had come in to movement in the 1960s.   Some of the principles and themes which underpin these practices are stewardship of interrelationships, emphatical approach to non-human species, connectivity,...

When we consider much of the recent mainstream news coverage and indeed government bypassing of due process in relation to legislation and the reiteration by psychiatric soap boxes of the need for enhanced coercion in mental health, one might imagine that all notions of personhood, self autonomy, choice and voice by people with mental health challenges are being overridden. Whilst this onslaught a...

Welcome to the latest Mad In Ireland Fields of Healing podcast episode. It seems fitting that as we move into the time of Imbolg the time when ewes are pregnant with their spring lambs, that we are speaking to a sheep farmer and how he has integrated Social Farming into his family's organic farm. I realise when talking with Matthew that the 'social' in the faming programme is key and can incorpora...

This podcast is with Thom Stewart We met in Dublin city recently where Thom showed me two of his favourite trees. Thom introduces himself as having a foot in two camps. Thom speaks about system change and working inside and outside and his involvement up a peer cafe in Galway - The Galway Community Cafe. Thom outlines why he thinks peer support is a contradiction within a health system. Thom has a...

In this episode I am delighted to be exploring the place of the Irish language (indeed any indigenous language) as a field of healing. And no better a man to explore this than with Conor Ruadh, who along with many others is an activist in our reconnection with Irish language and culture.   Considering language as a field of healing may at first seem strange. Yet within the language of healing and...

Welcome once again to Mad in Irelands podcast series ' Fields of Healing'.  This time around we visit the world of music and rhythm as a field or landscape of and for healing. Music is something that many people appreciate in its various guises and it has many forms. If we were to reflect on the impact of music on our lives, we might at the very least notice how different music evokes a range of e...

We are delighted to be presenting this third episode of Fields of Healing where we discuss a healing field that is becoming more and more visible and popular within Irish healing circles. Shamanism is what many people might think of as something pagan and definitely something from 'over there', maybe South America or Siberia or Mongolia, not something Irish. Yes, it is something from 'over there'...

We are delighted to present this second Fields of Healing Podcast recorded in a healing field known locally as Granny's acre. We have adjusted sound as best we can, though we can't help hearing a short rain shower and distant laughter from outside of our Yurt. Mad in Ireland have opportunistically gathered together a group of family constellations facilitators at Irelands yearly Family Constellati...

We are delighted to present this first 'Fields of Healing Podcast', literally from a field, with the potential to bring healing to many who otherwise may not have the opportunity. This episode is longer than a normal episode. It unfolds as a story that can be paused when the listener chooses and can easily, like a good book, be picked up again when you are ready.   The background, purpose and publ...

This Podcast will be inluenced and brought to Mad in Ireland by a number of people from Mad in Ireland, in association with Dublin North, North East Recovery College. For this introductory episode Martha Griffin. Triona Byrne and Líam Mac Gabhann chat about their aspirations and plans for Fileds of Healing. Needless to say as the Mad in Ireland collective come to bear on the podcast, we will have ...