Alchemical Health

About Alchemical Health

What should healthcare look like in a sustainable, regenerative and creative world? alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Stuart Jeffery

Category

arts · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Feb 2023

Latest episode

24 Feb 2024

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Feb 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 (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 (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/ (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/polycrisis-adam-tooze-historian-explains/) * Regenerative farming (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/11/regenerative-farming-shift-could-reduce-uk-climate-emissions-say-experts), 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca) Forge: Think about new models of care and support for people that build community and health. Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   29 Nov 2023

   Say hello to the frozen peas

   Show notes and credits 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/ (https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/) Forge: Just spend some time walking round with a smile and say hello to things, like the toilet roll. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   19 Oct 2023

   May 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/ (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? Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com (mailto:alchemicalhealth@outlook.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

4. 

   14 Sept 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… Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com (mailto:alchemicalhealth@outlook.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

5. 

   26 Jul 2023

   Wibbling 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 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65446352) Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids https://druidry.org/ (https://druidry.org/) ACER: Accept, Connect, Embody, Restore https://acerintegration.com/ (https://acerintegration.com/) Awen: https://druidry.org/resources/awen-2 (https://druidry.org/resources/awen-2) Alice Bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/190994/imperial-launches-worlds-first-centre-psychedelics/) https://psychosynthesistrust.org.uk/ (https://psychosynthesistrust.org.uk/) Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com (mailto:alchemicalhealth@outlook.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

6. 

   13 Jun 2023

   Creativity 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/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinelongcoaching/) Spirited Away https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/) Resilience: Polycrisis, what polycrisis by Paul Arbair https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-04-25/polycrisis-what-polycrisis/ (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. Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com (mailto:alchemicalhealth@outlook.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

7. 

   19 May 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. Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com (mailto:alchemicalhealth@outlook.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

8. 

   28 Apr 2023

   Transforming 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 (https://www.transformocene.co.uk/) Teal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_organisation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_organisation) Buurtzorg https://www.buurtzorg.com/ (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 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sitting-Fire-Transformation-Conflict-Diversity/dp/1619710242) Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com (mailto:alchemicalhealth@outlook.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

9. 

   31 Mar 2023

   Naturally 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/ (https://ourworldindata.org/) Six step model of ecotherapy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31973063/ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31973063/) Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com (mailto:alchemicalhealth@outlook.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

10. 

    17 Mar 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/ (https://dandeliontime.org.uk/) This amazing charity provides a therapeutic environment for children in Kent, UK. Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com (mailto:alchemicalhealth@outlook.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

11. 

    3 Mar 2023

    The Forge and The Cauldron

    Going a bit deeper into what we want to explore in this series. A look at laughter, nature, the directions, the elements, art and creativity and so on. Show notes and credits Benefits of urban green spaces: Turunen AW, Halonen J, Korpela K, et al Cross-sectional associations of different types of nature exposure with psychotropic, antihypertensive and asthma medication Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2023; 80:111-118. https://oem.bmj.com/content/80/2/111 (https://oem.bmj.com/content/80/2/111) Csikszentmihalyi and flow: https://positivepsychology.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/ (https://positivepsychology.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/) Patch Adams: https://www.patchadams.org/ (https://www.patchadams.org/) MBTI: https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/ (https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/) Julia Cameron - The Artist’s Way https://www.theartistswaybook.com/ (https://www.theartistswaybook.com/) Wave cartoon by Graham Mackay https://mackaycartoons.net/2020/03/18/wednesday-march-11-2020/ (https://mackaycartoons.net/2020/03/18/wednesday-march-11-2020/) Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX Contact us: alchemicalhealth@outlook.com (mailto:alchemicalhealth@outlook.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

12. 

    17 Feb 2023

    What on Earth has alchemy got to do with health?

    Introducing Jen Gash and Stuart Jeffery; introducing creativity, sustainability, and nature in both health and healthcare; a bit of light banter; and a bit of a plan for the coming weeks! Show notes and credits Music: Pursuit by Abbeynoise Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit (https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/pursuit) License code: BDBKCAXBNB6CLSSX This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alchemicalhealth.substack.com (https://alchemicalhealth.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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