I loved setting up this interview with Remi Olajoyegbe - a co-founder of Medicine Festival - on @BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme yesterday and collating/recording the eclectic sound bites from the festival spliced in with the piece – from wild swimming, rattle shaking tribal elder and prayerful chants in the Peace Temple to uplifting Calypso rhythms infusing the festival’s market place!
You can listen to the piece here 💚
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I am really excited to be working with the inspirational Samantha Graham - a high flying CEO turned playwright, who is using the emotive power of theatre to move the dial of gender equity, having discovered an unprecedented epidemic of autoimmune disease facing overworked women of 45+.
I was happy to set up an interview for Samantha this week on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Drivetime show, talking about her new play Adaptation: Enough Already, which is currently running at the Edinburgh Fringe. Inspired by the work of trauma expert Dr Gabor Maté, the play warns that we must radically reduce our society’s expectations on women who now account for around 80% of all autoimmune disease cases.
Having witnessed three close friends becoming terminally ill with stroke, lupus and MS, Samantha decided to commit the next stage of her life to addressing this autoimmune issue on behalf of women, and has created a new play format, “TLM”, combining Music, Lecture and Theatre, to transform, educate and move people to instigate behaviour change.
Please check out this clip from her 5 Live interview.
To listen to the full piece, see Linktree link in my bio and scroll to 241 minutes, 45 seconds into the programme.
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It’s a joy to have landed at Medicine Festival!😍 Headlined by indigenous wisdom carriers, the restorative multicultural Mecca for music and healing (near Reading) is just getting going, with its vital mix of world music, ritual and ceremony, nature immersion, activism, dance, magical theatre, diversity and playful festivity.
Delighted to have set up this interview on BBC 5 Live’s Drivetime show about the festival with Remi Olajoyegbe, one of Medicine’s co-founders - check out the clip, plus to listen to the full interview on BBC I-player, see link in my bio and scroll forward to 2 mins 50 secs into the show:
Next piece on BBC Radio 4 coming on Friday, watch this space!
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New Follow Your Blissters podcast episode explores the fascinating journeys of award-winning writer and spiritual investigator Mick Brown through the lens of The Hero's Journey.
Special episode of Follow Your Blissters with Serge Beddington-Behrens, The Buddha of Pal Mall.
Patrick Duff's launch event at the weekend for his new memoir, The Singer, at The Abbey House in Glastonbury was quite stunning.
The Singer covers Patrick's journey from homeless teenage busker and addict, through chaotic rock n' roll years as lead singer of 90s rock band Strangelove, and through to his emergence as an inspirited and liberated solo artist, attuned to Nature and the raw power of music.
The launch event saw Patrick perform a mesmerising mix of Live songs, accompanied by young guitarist Woodie Taylor, interspersed with poetic readings from his book, and musings about his life, song writing, music and creativity. The whole thing hung together like an exquisite tapestry - soulful, magical and deeply nourishing. Noone went away without feeling deeply touched.
Here Patrick performs two songs from the night that blended into each other, Land of the Midnight Sun, followed by Evergreen.
I'd highly recommend reading The Singer, more info here:
https://consciousfrontiers.com/the-singer/
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THE OUTLAW'S JOURNEY
In this Teaser clip for my new podcast conversation with inspirited former convict and drug addict Liam Meredith, Liam shares his powerful experience of healing with horses in prison while enrolled on a life-changing programme with Key4Life.
The full episode shares Liam’s phenomenal turnaround story – from broken home, poverty, crime and prison, to healing, recovery and a life of service supporting other young ex-offenders to turn their lives around and rapping for social change.
To watch the episode on Spotify or YouTube or listen on a choice of audio platforms, see my Linktree: https://linktr.ee/consciousfrontiers
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The Outlaw's Journey
I am thrilled to announce that the finale episode of Series 2 of the Follow Your Blissters podcast - THE OUTLAW'S JOURNEY - launches tomorrow, sharing the remarkable tale of redemption of Liam Meredith. A former convict and drug addict turned inspired entrepreneur, rap artist and mentor, Liam now supports other ex-offenders to move away from crime and live purposeful lives.
For the first time on Follow Your Blissters, this special episode is available to watch in full on video on Spotify and YouTube, plus via audio on all the other usual podcasting channels.
You can watch or listen to the episode on my website tomorrow here: https://consciousfrontiers.com/podcast/#liam-meredith
It's not often you come across someone who has so radically turned their life around, so I'd highly recommend hearing Liam's story. He's one of life's great characters, with a huge heart and a cracking sense of humour ♥️
Many thanks to Isaac Nicholls and Strode College for their help filming and editing this episode.
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How can crises in our lives become transformative experiences with the power to change us and make our lives more enriched and deeply fulfilled?
This is the crux of many of my podcast conversations exploring the hero’s/heroine’s journeys of different thought leaders, and today’s new episode with resilience trainer and activist Dr Chris Johnstone is a powerful example of this.
Working as a junior hospital doctor, Chris often worked over 100 hours a week causing him to spiral into depression and a state of extreme exhaustion until a near-fatal car crash provided the needed wake up call that led him to find his power. He resigned from his job, recovered from depression, won a legal campaign to change the working conditions of junior doctors, and ultimately emerged from these “dark years” as an empowered facilitator helping others to both transform their lives and play their part in sustaining our world.
To listen to this episode and hear Chris’s story on a choice of streaming platforms, visit: https://linktr.ee/consciousfrontiers
Please share and help spread the word!
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The Changemaker's Journey
Delighted to be releasing a new podcast episode tomorrow featuring my conversation with the gentle powerhouse Dr Chris Johnstone, a pioneering resilience trainer and social and environmental activist, whose books include Seven Ways to Build Resilience and Active Hope, co-authored with Joanna Macy.
The conversation explores Chris’s journey from burnt out and depressed junior hospital doctor, to a wake up call car crash which triggered him to train as a facilitator of deeply transformative experiences, ultimately leading to his emergence as the empowered activist, author and changemaker he is today, making a valuable contribution to the wellbeing of people and planet.
You can listen to the episode tomorrow on all the usual streaming platforms and on the Conscious Frontiers website here: https://consciousfrontiers.com/podcast/#chris-johnstone
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The latest Follow Your Blissters podcast episode is now live, featuring the extraordinary pilgrimage journey of ancestral healer Cali White, as she explored the ancient roots, history, myths and landscapes of Britain, calling ceremonies with women along the way to honour those who were persecuted as witches during the European Witch Hunts (1450-1750).
Cali’s work is dedicated to understanding the historical impact of the Witch Hunts on our collective psyche, and healing the intergenerational trauma inherited from those so called ‘Burning Times’. She is lead organiser and curator of the ground-breaking I Am Witch exhibition which next comes to Bristol in Spring 2023 - watch this space!
To listen to the podcast on a choice of streaming platforms visit my Linktree: https://linktr.ee/consciousfrontiers
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