The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments

Terry Hyde is a Psychotherapist/counsellor. Terry started dancing aged 6, gaining a

Dr. Chris James is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and sleep specialist. Chris has over 15 years of clinical experience in the NHS working across a range of mental health and sleep services, providing specialist assessments, therapy and training. He now runs an online-based Clinical Psychology Practice & Sleep Clinic, and is the CEO and Founder of Sleep Athletic, providing specialist sleep services to elite athletes and sports teams. Sleep Athletic’s clients include Canada Men’s football team, Liverpool FC, and Arsenal Women’s FC. Chris is an Honorary Lecturer at Cardiff University.

Christopher Charles, an expert in Light and Sound Mind Machine technology has been involved in the field since the 1980s. He discovered the technology while in high school and was introduced to it by an old Inter Quest brain machine. Charles was interested in the mechanics of the brain-machine and learned from it through reading and talking to people. He has worked with various manufacturers and researchers in the industry.  Join Dr. Naomi and David we they talk more about neurotechnology specifically, Electroencephalogram (EEG) with Christopher in this episode of Locked up Living Podcast.

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Hardi has studied economics at the University of Tartu in Estonia and business communication at the University of Washington. For the last 16 years, he has been an entrepreneur and established 9 companies in very diverse fields like agriculture, sales, IT, retail, Electric Vehicles, and mycology. He has led over 600+ membered sales teams in Scandinavia and US and established the world’s biggest outdoor medicinal mushroom plantation.Since 2016, Hardi has been actively following the fields of psychedelics and psychotherapy as an investor and practitioner.

Geoff started his mental health career as a psychiatric nurse, and then subsequently became a mental health social worker. In the late 80’s his social work career took a turn when he found himself working in the HIV/AIDS pandemic in West London. It was during that time that he was fortunate enough to start doing some training with the Elizabeth Kubler Ross foundation in the USA. and it was this seminal experience that started his journey to become a psychotherapist.

He trained initially at the Metanoia institute and qualified as a Clinical Transactional analyst in 1996, and as a Teaching and Supervising transactional Analyst in 2003. He also trained and qualified as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the Forum for Independent Psychotherapists and did a one year supervision diploma course at the SAP (Jungian).

He had a private practice in South London for twenty years and in 2005 he became a Consultant Psychotherapist at a high security prison in the therapeutic wing.

Following his retirement from the prison in 2013, he developed a supervision practice and has been a tutor at the Metanoia Institute, TA East and The Link centre where he has recently become a director.

He started ministry training with the One Spirit Foundation and is due to be ordained in July 2021. He is passionate about bringing a spiritual dimension to psychotherapy education believing that the interface between the two is both exciting and essential.

Today we have two conversations about death. Leon is a creative film maker who has worked with the NHS and others to highlight the importance of talking about death before it is too late. Mike Grenville, the other conversation, explains what it is to be a death doula.

Originally from the North of England, Leon started his career as an actor and dancer. Building on his experience in creative media, including freelancing as a cinematographer for the BBC, and directing numerous healthcare related projects for the NHS and charity sector, he founded Flix Films in 2009. His aim was to create a production company that reflected his desire to influence positive change across diverse sectors and topics, benefiting people across the UK and beyond.

Leon’s enthusiasm for driving innovation inspired him to set up Flix VR, with the aim to pioneer the use of Virtual Reality in healthcare, and raise the profile of utilising VR experiences to enhance palliative and end-of-life care. In 2017 he partnered with Royal Trinity Hospice in London to conduct an ethically approved study to explore the potential of virtual reality as therapy for people at the end of life.  Today Flix VR is at the cutting edge of 360° Virtual Reality (VR) content development; ranging from person led VR tours of specialist healthcare environments to producing VR simulations to improve training outcomes across the public sector. 

Since setting up Flix VR Leon has been a Keynote Speaker at the Global Nursing Management and Innovation Forum in Rome, the GIANT Heath Event, Pharma MCM Meetup, the APM Supportive and Palliative Care Conference and the MND Association Annual Conference.

“Exploring how immersive technology can benefit individuals and communities is an absolute privilege, but increasing the understanding and utilisation of Virtual Reality and have a real impact in the health and public sectors is what drives me” 

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In the second of our conversations about death or really facing up to death before it is too late we talk to Mike Grenville. Mike is an independent Funeral Celebrant and Dying Doula supporting people dying and the families. He is also a member of the Home Funeral Network supporting families to care for their own dead and make informed choices about all aspects of Funerals including Home Funerals. He runs workshops on dying and Dying To Talk sessions creating a safe space to talk about death and dying.

Mike explores how our society became so death phobic  in this conversation.

Tanni Grey-Thompson is a Welsh politician and TV presenter as well as being a former wheelchair Paralympian.  Over her Paralympic career she won 16 medals including 11 golds for wheelchair racing, she held over 30 world records and also won the London Marathon 6 times.  She was also BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year on three occasions and received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. 

Tanni is remarkably clear and open about her sporting achievements and later work resporting on the state of sporting organisations and their sometimes lax approach to care and potential abuse.

Tanni has not only made history in the sporting arena.  After she retired, she expanded her broadcasting experience and became the first wheelchair user to present on BBC tv.  She has been a key part of their commentary team since the Beijing Olympics. 

In addition, Tanni has held a number of advisory and consultancy roles over the years and also represented many charities. She has also been Chancellor of Northumbria University since 2015.  

Tanni’s significant achievements have been formally acknowledged many times.  She received an MBE in 1993, this was advanced to an OBE in 2000 and she was made a Dame in 2005 for Services to Disabled Sport.  In 2010, she was made a lifelong peer where she sits as a cross-bencher.

Dr David Maguire (Honorary Senior Research Associate, UCL, Institute of Education)

Dr David Maguire has researched and managed projects for excluded groups across sectors that include housing, education, prison and the wider criminal justice system. In 2016 he was awarded D.Phil. (PhD) from the University of Oxford for research focusing on the interplay between masculinity, education, (un)employment, crime and imprisonment. After holding Lectureship positions in Criminal Justice, Criminology and Sociology, David took up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCL’s Institute of Education that explored post prison transitions into employment and education. He has written and published on prison masculinities, and is the author of British Society of Criminology prize winning book:  Male, Failed, Jailed : Masculinities and "Revolving-Door" Imprisonment in the UK. He is currently the Director for the Prison Reform Trust's Building Futures project, a five-year programme for prisoners who are serving or have served 10 or more years in prison.

The Retreat in York was a groundbreaking psychiatric service opened in 1796. Acorn was a women'stherapeutic community which ran for many years before closing as the Retreat withdrew from in patient activities. Ellie Wildbore was a member of the TC. This research seeks out staff and residents from four years ago to assess the benefits and effects of being in the TC and we reflect on the tragic loss of such valuable and effective services.