Episodios

  • S6 Ep1: Creation Cares - nature connection

    S6 Ep1: Creation Cares - nature connection
    Sep 6 2024
    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
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    19 m
  • S5 Ep8: Rest and Reset - Zen

    S5 Ep8: Rest and Reset - Zen
    Aug 14 2024
    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
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    44 m
  • S5 Ep7: Healing Histories - Embody

    S5 Ep7: Healing Histories - Embody
    Jul 16 2024
    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

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    33 m
  • S5 Ep6: Healing Histories - spaces and places

    S5 Ep6: Healing Histories - spaces and places
    Jul 2 2024
    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
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    38 m
  • S5 Ep5: Healing Histories - structural injustice

    S5 Ep5: Healing Histories - structural injustice
    Jun 19 2024
    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
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    37 m
  • S5 Ep4: Healing Histories - Genetics

    S5 Ep4: Healing Histories - Genetics
    Jun 5 2024
    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
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    32 m
  • S5 Ep3: Healing Histories - Psychotherapy

    S5 Ep3: Healing Histories - Psychotherapy
    May 22 2024
    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.
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    32 m
  • S5 Ep2: Healing Histories - Where it starts

    S5 Ep2: Healing Histories - Where it starts
    May 8 2024
    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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    25 m