Introducing our Fields of Healing Podcast
Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing
Release Date: 09/20/2023
Social Farming: Connecting with land, with community and with history
Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing
Welcome to the latest Mad In Ireland Fields of Healing podcast episode. It seems fitting that as we move into the time of Imbolg the time when ewes are pregnant with their spring lambs, that we are speaking to a sheep farmer and how he has integrated Social Farming into his family’s organic farm. I realise when talking with Matthew that the ‘social’ in the faming programme is key and can incorporated anything from weaving folklore into the names and traverses of the landscape to popping in for a spot of lunch to the local community centre. Social farming provides a deep connection to...
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Conversation with Thom Stewart
Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing
This podcast is with Thom Stewart We met in Dublin city recently where Thom showed me two of his favourite trees. Thom introduces himself as having a foot in two camps. Thom speaks about system change and working inside and outside and his involvement up a peer cafe in Galway - The Galway Community Cafe. Thom outlines why he thinks peer support is a contradiction within a health system. Thom has a wonderful overview of society, systems, care and the professionalisation of peer support: Peer support is relational Requires a real emotional connection Can be practical in nature Thom talks about...
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Language giving voice to identity and expressing our soul
Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing
In this episode I am delighted to be exploring the place of the Irish language (indeed any indigenous language) as a field of healing. And no better a man to explore this than with Conor Ruadh, who along with many others is an activist in our reconnection with Irish language and culture. Considering language as a field of healing may at first seem strange. Yet within the language of healing and recovery in mental health, we often consider connection, identity, meaning, belonging and sense making as part and parcel of a recovering journey. In this conversation those concepts are...
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Music, the rhythm of the soul
Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing
Welcome once again to Mad in Irelands podcast series ‘Fields of Healing’. This time around we visit the world of music and rhythm as a field or landscape of and for healing. Music is something that many people appreciate in its various guises and it has many forms. If we were to reflect on the impact of music on our lives, we might at the very least notice how different music evokes a range of emotional states; we might even feel that energetic drawback in time to a place when we liked a certain genre or listened to particular songs that remain with us today. We may not have...
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Shamanism and the Celtic shaman path towards healing
Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing
We are delighted to be presenting this third episode of Fields of Healing where we discuss a healing field that is becoming more and more visible and popular within Irish healing circles. Shamanism is what many people might think of as something pagan and definitely something from ‘over there’, maybe South America or Siberia or Mongolia, not something Irish. Yes, it is something from ‘over there’ for sure, though more accurately something associated with indigenous healing practices in any part of the world. In Ireland, much of our traditional indigenous healing practices and even...
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Family Constellations & Systemic Healing
Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing
We are delighted to present this second Fields of Healing Podcast recorded in a healing field known locally as Granny’s acre. We have adjusted sound as best we can, though we can’t help hearing a short rain shower and distant laughter from outside of our Yurt. Mad in Ireland have opportunistically gathered together a group of family constellations facilitators at Irelands yearly Family Constellations Camp (or ) for this episode. What is Family Constellations? Although we attempt to answer this question in the podcast, to tweak your interest, a version or summary...
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Kyrie Farm, An Ecological Approach to Mental Health
Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing
We are delighted to present this first ‘Fields of Healing Podcast’, literally from a field, with the potential to bring healing to many who otherwise may not have the opportunity. This episode is longer than a normal episode. It unfolds as a story that can be paused when the listener chooses and can easily, like a good book, be picked up again when you are ready. The background, purpose and public face of Kyrie Farm can be found on their website above. Here in this Podcast, we interviewed three people pivotal to how Kyrie Farm will evolve. John McKeon the founder of this initiative...
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Introducing our Fields of Healing Podcast
Mad in Ireland: Fields of Healing
This Podcast will be inluenced and brought to Mad in Ireland by a number of people from Mad in Ireland, in association with Dublin North, North East Recovery College. For this introductory episode Martha Griffin. Triona Byrne and Líam Mac Gabhann chat about their aspirations and plans for Fileds of Healing. Needless to say as the Mad in Ireland collective come to bear on the podcast, we will have even broader fruitful aspirations. A Rumi poem comes to mind just now, Roughly speaking it goes like this. Somewhere out there beyond right doing and wrong doing there is a field, we will meet...
info_outlineThis Podcast will be inluenced and brought to Mad in Ireland by a number of people from Mad in Ireland, in association with Dublin North, North East Recovery College. For this introductory episode Martha Griffin. Triona Byrne and Líam Mac Gabhann chat about their aspirations and plans for Fileds of Healing. Needless to say as the Mad in Ireland collective come to bear on the podcast, we will have even broader fruitful aspirations. A Rumi poem comes to mind just now, Roughly speaking it goes like this. Somewhere out there beyond right doing and wrong doing there is a field, we will meet you there.