Michelle Morgan has spent years building a creative practice and career in art therapy, and she now works in something called clinical pastoral care - offering emotional and spiritual support to patients in two major Melbourne hospitalsToday Mi

A Tattoo of Impermanence | Mash Quereshi

Oct 26th, 2021 28m 24s

Mash Quereshi is a Pakistani-born rapper and MC inspiring hope in people's hearts. Mash's early years were a lesson in impermanence as he moved between Pakistan and Australia, and changed schools often. When he was older he decided to go abroa

Hardwired for Connection | Ornob Sheikh

Oct 1st, 2021 34m 51s

Ornob Sheikh is an artist, musician and deep feeling human, who grew up in Bangladesh surrounded by a large supportive family. He is also one of our Bards for this season and his story today is interwoven with him playing his beautiful instrume

Imagination as a Multi-Tool | Harley Hefford

Oct 1st, 2021 22m 50s

Harley Hefford is a drama teacher who today's curator Eike describes as the most creative person he knows. Harley talks about why he thinks everybody is innately creative, how play might be useful in darker times, and how he brings imagination

Building Bridges | Valerie Albrecht

Jun 21st, 2021 33m 6s

Valerie Albrecht has spent a lifetime building bridges.Trained as a speech pathologist, she began to feel that the Western medical model was missing a lot, and she set off to find out how she could really be of service to whole humans.This jour

Healing as a Nation | Uncle Peltherre Chris Tomlins

Jun 2nd, 2021 26m 40s

Uncle Peltherre Chris Tomlins is an Arrente elder who carries the message that “now is the time for all Australians to come together and begin the healing" - but first we need truth. Today he generously shares stories from his family, and talk

Finding Our Way Home | Matt Wicking

May 7th, 2021 44m

Matt Wicking is a musician, facilitator and writer and he’s also the current Bard for the weekly service, providing artistic contributions to this season.Today Matt steps into the role of storyteller, sharing not only some of his beautiful myth

Reclaiming Anger | Stacia Beazley

Apr 17th, 2021 38m 2s

Stacia Beazley is a trained holistic counsellor, facilitator, writer, mentor and all round feelings ninja. Today she’s talking about how reclaiming anger has been transformational in her life, and why she believes healthy anger is the medicine

The Power of Conversation | Jon Osborne

Mar 25th, 2021 27m 50s

Jon Osborne is interested in how the conversations we have create the world we live in. The language and stories we share often define what we think is possible. And if we feel stuck, perhaps there’s a missing conversation we need to have. In t

Decolonising Yo'Self | Aretha Brown

Nov 16th, 2020 24m 53s

Today’s storyteller is the proud, queer Indigenous youth leader and artist, Aretha Brown. Through sharing her own stories of going to school in Australia, the 19 year-old Gumbaynggirr woman makes a powerful case for decolonizing the country’s e

A Healing Journey | Petrine McCrohan

Oct 28th, 2020 35m 13s

Petrine McCrohan has spent 17 years working with Indigenous communities in the Kimberleys in Australia, and she has seen first-hand the damage that can be done when Non-Aboriginal people turn up in these communities with their own agendas and u

(Un)known Kinship | Jackson C. Payne

Oct 28th, 2020 17m 5s

Today’s storyteller is New-Zealand based writer Jackson Payne. Jackson’s story is about the different colours and shapes of family, and in particular how a motorbike accident prompted him to become a sperm donor for his friends' kids. Starting

Finding Gratitude | Abe Nouk

Oct 27th, 2020 26m 51s

Abe Nouk is a poet, a community educator, a mentor and a humble human being with an infectious sense of gratitude. In this podcast he talks about how he fled civil war in Sudan to come to Australia, and his journey to creativity and gratitude a

My Kids Say I'm a Weird Mum | Inbal Rodnay Steinberg

Oct 27th, 2020 24m 59s

Inbal has three boys who sometimes wear pants and sometimes wear dresses - and she feels pretty good about that. She's undoing oppressive cultural norms of secrecy by talking simply about the child abuse she braved as a teenager, and by creatin

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