Self Detective Club

Anyone up for an exploration into spiritual contentment and fulfilment - without the religion or the ectoplasm?! Then step this way. Show notes to follow...

Hi everyone. Big welcome to one and all. We start this episode 2 million years ago. We jump from hats to playgrounds to gold dust. We pilfer from academics and we blow a raspberry at behaviourism.

Here's some links of some of the people we mention in this session...

Ivan Illich

John Holt

William Perry

Gerald Grow

Paulo Freire

Lev Vygotsky

Emma Goldman

Hello, welcome, welcome, welcome (as ever). Today we have 30 mini blogs all about (self) empowerment. I know, how lovely is that!!! Here's some random show notes to compliment the experience, starting with the musical bits...

"No" They Might be Giants

"Everything's Possible" Fred Small.

Rosenberg Self-esteem scale

Permissions and injunctions

The poisonous parrot

Welcome to another smattering of bite-sized, oven-ready, mini blogs . This month we are focusing on bodywork: interventions that can aid our body's wellbeing, alongside ways to unify the body with the mind. We'll be passing through circadian rhythm, decrepitude, smells, dance and quivering, among other things. Here are some videos to accompany some of these themes...

Emotional Freedom Technique

EMDR demonstration

Vooing

Tension Release Exercises (TRE)

The Butterfly hug

Are you happy with your moral compass? Do you think it's fit for purpose? Would you be up for having it road tested? Then have a listen to this episode. No show notes this week. I'm on smoko.

Games. Playing. Acting. Dressing up. Doodling. Music. Symbols. Imagination. These are just some of the topics we'll be exploring for July. You might want to bring some paper and pens to this episode. As well as your inner child.

"“We need to be childish to understand. Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
Douglas Adams

Here's some links for your attention:

The Roles We Play - Sabba Khan

Ways of Seeing - John Berger

Art of Protest - De Nichols

The Happy Writing Book - Elise Valmorbida

Art Therapy Exercises - Liesl Silverstone

The trouble with this podcast is that there's not enough dissent. It's too fixated on individuals solving their own problems.

There is a whole world of systems, structures and institutions that are failing us day in day out. Can we at least shine a light on this - even if we can't change it overnight? So at the very least we don't end up gaslighting ourselves!!!

This is a sonic journey through a critical lens, passing by evolution, money, voting, democracy, communism, journalism, hell, even small talk. And here's some show notes to add to the general disagreeable nature of the content...

The Triffids Madeline 

Madeline animation 

Where does money come from?

Mid Staffs Report

Wiki page on Harold Shipman

The Women Revolution of Rojava

BBC journalist Andrew Marr interviews Noam Chomsky

Did anyone notice that within the word citizenship there exists the smaller word 'zen'.

This episode sees self-detectivism expands its reach into the realms of universal wellness. Here we share ideas and notions that serve the collective good, not just our own individual needs. Be prepared to be tentatively challenged!!!

Here's some show notes that add to the themes of the episode:

Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally (You Tube)

Mutual aid

Corporate whoring

Consensus decision making

Article on human-sized

Hannah Arendt: The Quiet Power of Thoughtlessness (podcast)

Person-centredness (You Tube)

Every interactions can be an interventions(You Tube)

We have a process when it comes to death. We call it grieving. But there's not much going on, ritualistically speaking, when death brushes past us. In this episode we will be staying with these reminders, these close shaves. We have instances from poems, songs and prose. While Simon, your host, will also be sharing his own lived experience cheats, inspired by Maggie O'Farrell's non-fiction book I Am I Am I Am.

Here are some more show notes, starting with:

Ten Meter Tower | A Short Film by Maximilien van Aertryck and Axel Danielson

A TIMELINE OF IRA ATTACKS IN LONDON

Freud's Concepts of Thanatos and Eros

Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book

Joe Henry's Ohio Plane Crash

Bongwater's Great Radio

Smog's Lazy Rain

Dr Alimantado's Born for a Purpose/reason for Living

Neko Case's Tightly

Andrew Bird's Fake Palindromes

Courtney Barnett's Avant Gardener

And, and, and... it would a great remiss if we didn't flag up the importance of burping kombucha.

BTW - If you are interested in the logo of this episode, it comes from a medieval movement called Danse Macabre

(Mystery Bonus Track)

How much of our internal world do we understand? Our thinking, feeling, actions? Our senses, hormones, nervous system? Would it be useful to delve into this world for the sake of our wellbeing? If so, listen up.

Here's some show notes:

The Book of Human Emotions

The Action Cycle (aka The Gestalt Cycle)

Bad Faith

Defence mechanisms

Polyvagal Theory

NLP: changing bad memories