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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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