Alchemical Health

By Stuart Jeffery

What should healthcare look like in a sustainable, regenerative and creative world?

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The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.

Alchemical Health episodes:

February 24, 2024 12: Sustainable or regenerative - rehab in the community
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://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/polycrisis-adam-tooze-historian-explains/
* Regenerative farming, nature connection, social connection
* Blackthorn Trust https://blackthorn.org.uk/
* Community rehab vs inpatient rehab
* Social, clinical, financial and ecological costs
* Predicaments vs problems
* Ayahuasca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca
Forge: Think about new models of care and support for people that build community and health.
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46min
November 29, 2023 Say hello to the frozen peas
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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 Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman
* The UK Covid Inquiry
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/
Forge: Just spend some time walking round with a smile and say hello to things, like the toilet roll.

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58min
October 19, 2023May you not live in interesting times… A review of Boredom by Jen Gash
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 happening, how are you feeling, what don’t you like about it?

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49min
September 14, 2023 The Wheel of the Year
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…

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36min
July 26, 2023Wibbling with Philip Carr-Gomm
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-65446352
Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids https://druidry.org/
ACER: Accept, Connect, Embody, Restore https://acerintegration.com/
Awen: https://druidry.org/resources/awen-2
Alice Bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bailey
Psilocybin research at Imperial College https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/190994/imperial-launches-worlds-first-centre-psychedelics/
https://psychosynthesistrust.org.uk/

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56min
June 13, 2023Creativity as a survival mechanism with Katherine Long
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 reciprocity and holons. Healing vs curing. Animism. Carbon tunnel vision and not understanding the wider pollutants.
Links:
Katherine Long: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinelongcoaching/
Spirited Away https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/
Resilience: Polycrisis, what polycrisis by Paul Arbair https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-04-25/polycrisis-what-polycrisis/
This week’s Forge: Enchantment, proper magic. Cantare… singing. Sing something somewhere to someone or something outside.
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59min
May 19, 2023 Regeneration: small steps
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.
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34min
April 28, 2023Transforming Gloop
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 Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sitting-Fire-Transformation-Conflict-Diversity/dp/1619710242
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1h 6min
March 31, 2023Naturally childish
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/
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40min
March 17, 2023 Dr Caroline Jessel - Restoring Hope with Nature
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 environment for children in Kent, UK.

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53min

FAQs about Alchemical Health:

How many episodes does Alchemical Health have?

The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.