GoHealth Podcast

By Guild of Health and St Raphael

How have you experienced healing in your life? What does healing mean to you? Where do you find healing? How do we talk about healing having lived through a global pandemic? What do we mean by Christi... more

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The podcast currently has 41 episodes available.

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November 08, 2024S6 Ep3: Creation Cares - Taking Action
What is ours to do? We've been deep in this theme of Creation Cares for a number of weeks as a GoHealth Community. In this episode Gillian talks with Clare Fussell from Operation Noah about what we can do in response, and what we can leave undone!

Clare Fussell joined Operation Noah in January 2024. Clare has a background in coordinating environmental campaigns, with experience leading The Climate Coalition, managing Christian Aid’s Campaign Team, and being Environmental Adviser for Bristol Diocese. She is passionate about linking Christian faith with environmental action, and enjoys learning about permaculture and biodiversity through her role as trustee of Hazelnut Community Farm in Bristol, as well as through the eco work at her church. Clare is married to Luke, a renewable energy engineer, and they have two young children.

In their conversation together Gillian and Clare explore:
Would Clare's teenage self imagine she would be doing what she is doing now
Responding to the Climate crisis by balancing the big scene with small actions
How Operation Noah has been supporting churches through the Bright Now campaign.
What churches can do in response to climate change and biodiversity loss.
Why climate change and environmental concerns are not a side show to the main purpose of the church.
Clare's three tips for avoiding activist burnout as a Christian engaged in climate justice.
Links:
Operation Noah
The Hazelnut Community
Burning Down the House Report - Tearfund
The Lost Words by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris
Borrowed Time - A Green Christian project
The Loss and Damage Campaign - Christian Aid
COP29 - United Nations Conference of the Parties
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34min
September 27, 2024S6 Ep2: Creation Cares - Noticing nature
What in Creation caught your attention today? Do you have a sense of why that might have been? These are some of the many questions explored in this beautiful conversation between Gillian Straine and Steve Aisthorpe.

Steve is the Director of Kilmalieu, a retreat centre on the west coast of the Highlands, part of the Abernethy Trust. He is a coach, retreat leader and author of The Invisible Church (SAP, 2016) and Rewilding the Church (SAP, 2020). He was previously a mission development officer for the Church of Scotland and Executive Director of the International Nepal Fellowship.

Together, Gillian and Steve explore
Kilmalieu retreat centre – what is distinctive about its approach.
How folk attending the centre connect with the rugged landscape around them.
How being at Kilmalieu benefits people.
The three ways of seeing.
The threshold prayer.
How connecting with nature cultivates resilience in the face of the climate crisis.
Rewilding the Church - Steve's book.
How folk listening can practice nature connection today, wherever they are.

Episode links:
Kilmalieu website
Abernethy Kilmalieu Facebook
Kilmalieu Instagram
GoHealth Creation Cares series
Join the GoHealth Community

Facebook and Instagram: @GuildofHealth
...more
34min
September 06, 2024S6 Ep1: Creation Cares - nature connection
Spending a long time gazing at a flower with a small child, having your hands covered in soil and being held by a fresh water lochan. These are just a few of the ways the GoHealth team share their experiences of nature connection in this special episode.

In this special episode we hear from members of the GoHealth team, chair of the board and a member of the GoHealth Community about their connection with Creation.

Some of these reflections were recorded a few years ago just as we were emerging from lockdowns as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. A time when many of us were rediscovering a connection with nature.

May listening back to these reflections help us remember and retrieve that connection if it has since faded.
Graham Fender-Allison shares a precious moment in his garden with his wee boy.
Steve Coles tells us about an exciting farm project he and his wife have set up and five things he has learnt in the process.
Gillian Straine describes how her labour of love in her back garden has helped her uncover deep wisdom about faith.
Gregory expresses his love and thirst for the outdoors.
Wendy Lloyd compares the cleansing of fresh water swimming with the satisfaction of having soil under her nails in the garden.

Links:
GoHealth Creation Cares series
Join the GoHealth Community here.
Wild & Other
...more
20min
August 14, 2024S5 Ep8: Rest and Reset - Zen
Learning from the wisdom of Zen meditation. In this episode Gillian chats with the Revd. Chris Collingwood, a Christian Priest, former canon of York minster and Zen master.

The conversation explores the following:
Chris explains how he felt called to be a priest.
What Zen is.
How Chris got interested in Zen.
How he became a Zen Master.
How Zen practice fitted with his role as a canon at York Minster.
Christian theological connections with Zen and how it differs.
How Zen impacts on how people relate to the world.
The experience of non duality.
How Chris responds to folk in spiritual need - does he draw more on his Zen practice or Christian faith?
The practice of compassionate non judgement towards others and ourselves.
The one thing that Chris offers as encouragement to listeners.
Links:
Chris's book: Zen Wisdom for Christians.
The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
Get your GoHealth journal here.
Visit our website to get connected with the GoHealth Community.
Find us on our socials @GuildofHealth
...more
44min
July 16, 2024S5 Ep7: Healing Histories - Embody
Revd Ian Spencer helps us heal from a long history of bodies being denigrated by the Church. Drawing on wisdom from the Gospels, Zen wisdom and from Yoga, Gillian and Ian offer us a transformative body based way of knowing.

The episode explores:
Ian's biography including Mindwell Ministries (you can read this in full on the GoHealth website: gohealth.org.uk/podcasts/healing-histories-embody/)
Ian shares what inspires him spiritually today.
Gillian and Ian get into the sad history of the church in relation to bodies.
Incarnation!
The importance of relationship with all things in our overall health.
Avoiding overwhelm and the impact we can have in the healing of the world.
Body based knowing.
Ian provides a really practical example of how to develop body based knowing.
Links:
Transcript is on the GoHealth podcast page gohealth.org.uk/podcasts/healing-histories-embody/
Mindwell Ministries
The body keeps the score, Bessel Van Der Kolk
The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
Get your GoHealth journal here.
Visit our website to get connected with the GoHealth Community.
Find us on our socials @GuildofHealth
...more
34min
July 02, 2024S5 Ep6: Healing Histories - spaces and places
There are few stones left unturned in this episode. The Revd Dr Dan Inman, Precentor of Chichester cathedral, leads us on a pilgrimage through liturgy, buildings, arts and pilgrimage itself. TW: Gillian and Dan also get into a delicate conversation about the handling of a specific historic alleged abuse case regarding Bishop George Bell.
Dan shares what a Precentor does.
Cathedrals as more than a quirky english moving museum.
How cathedrals and the liturgy provide a healing space for many.
How the George Bell abuse case was handled impacted the naming of places and spaces.
The possibility of liturgy helping to heal the wounds of historic abuse.
Pilgrimage, the why, what and where of pilgrimage for Dan.
Where Dan finds hope for human flourishing, as a Precentor.
Links:
Chichester Cathedral
Bishop George Bell's name restored to Chichester Cathedral building - BBC News
British Pilgrimage Trust
Scottish Pilgrimage Routes Forum
Alastair Mcintosh Poacher's Pilgrimage
The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
Get your GoHealth journal here.
Visit our website to get connected with the GoHealth Community.
Find us on our socials @GuildofHealth
...more
39min
June 19, 2024S5 Ep5: Healing Histories - structural injustice
How do we heal the history of racism when it is still so present and prevalent? Gillian explores this difficult question with the Revd Dr Sharon Prentis. Revd Prentis is Deputy Director of Church of England’s Racial Justice Unit. She is also a tutor in theology and in her previous work was recognised by the Department of Health when she was named as a Mary Seacole Scholar for a project on faith and the impact on health.

Together they cover the following themes:
What it means for people to thrive.
Institutional health practices and what needs to change.
How the Church of England's Racial Justice Unit came to exist.
The whole person impact of racism.
The daily reality of living with racism including code switching.
Healing the history of the slave trade.
The role of the church in healing racism and enabling the flourishing of all in our societies.
Sharon's personal story of how she came to engage in the work of honest dialogue.
What gives her hope to keep on keeping on.
Links:
From Lament to Action report by the Church of England.
Every Tribe, by Sharon Prentis
The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
Get your GoHealth journal here.
Visit our website to get connected with the GoHealth Community.
Find us on our socials @GuildofHealth
...more
38min
June 05, 2024S5 Ep4: Healing Histories - Genetics
Gillian and Associate Professor Mark Roberts tackle big questions, including the nature vs nurture? Mark shares insights from research into bananas and microbes, and much more, to make this a hopeful and fascinating episode where they explore:
What genes are and how they influence who we are.
The discovery of genes and history of genetic study
Genes being like an on-off switch in simple terms.
Genes, illness and disease.
Genes help us survive in our context.
What Mark wants us all to know about genetics.
How the tiniest detail can tell us about how the world works.
Links:
The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
Get your GoHealth journal here.
Visit our website to get connected with the GoHealth Community.
Find us on our socials @GuildofHealth
...more
33min
May 22, 2024S5 Ep3: Healing Histories - Psychotherapy
Be inspired by a conversation exploring the healing power of psychotherapy and where it sits within Christian spirituality.

In this second episode of the Healing Histories series we share a conversation with Susanne Hyde, Director of the St Marylebone HCC.

In their conversation, Gillian and Susanne cover the following topics:
What is psychotherapy?
What powers psychotherapeutic healing and why is safety important in this approach to healing?
What governs why some people seem to make repeated bad choices?
What is trauma and how can therapy help?
How to engage in the process?
How do religion and spirituality relate to psychotherapy?
Trauma and healing
Do you have hope that healing is possible?
From the world of psychotherapy and faith, what one thing would you like people to know that might help them if listening today has raised questions.
Links:
Episode Transcript will follow soon
St Marylebone HCC: St Marylebone HCC Psychotherapy - St Marylebone
The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
Get your GoHealth journal here.
...more
33min
May 08, 2024S5 Ep2: Healing Histories - Where it starts
Be inspired by the roots of healing in the early church. Find out how healing was so linked to the growth of Christianity. Consider how we can be a healing presence today by learning from those who have gone before. We hope you find this an uplifting and hopeful podcast episode!

In this first episode of the Healing Histories series we share a conversation with Professor Amanda Porterfield, professor of religion at Florida State university and author of ‘Healing in the history of Christianity’ Could there be anyone more perfect to launch this new podcast series from GoHealth? We don't think so.

In their conversation, Gillian and Amanda cover the following topics:
Why Amanda wrote her book, ‘Healing in the History of Christianity.’
The reason healing played such a large part in the early church.
The history of christian healing in cultural context.
What Amanda means by the word ‘healing’ and 'miracle.'
How the church might heal from its sometimes harmful history.
How Amanda views the future of healing in the Christian faith.
The role of Community in making the world a better place.
Links:
Episode Transcript available here.
Amanda Porterfield 'Healing in the History of Christianity.'
The GoHealth Everyday Healing Course
Get your GoHealth journal here.
Recent report on social factors and health
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26min

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