In this episode, CIPD Ireland HR Policy & Engagement Manager, Meg Dunphy, spoke to Lutfur Ali, Senior Policy Advisor Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Transformation at CIPD where they discussed the main considerations for EDI in the workplace.

Key takeaways were the importance of Allyship and us all taking personal responsibility for ensuring our own behaviour and the accepted culture is one of respect and support and calling out anything less.

CIPD Ireland Podcast - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace

A short meditation to help re-connect with our inner light.  Doing this can help us realise that what goes on in our internal landscape manifests on our outer world.  

Finding Your Inner Light

I'm Holding These Keys
In My Womb, In My Womb, In My Womb (x3)
And I let Them Go

Im holding These Seeds
In My Womb, In My Womb, In My Womb (x3)
And I Let Them Go

Im Holding These Dreams
In My Womb, In My Womb, In My Womb (x3)
And I Let Them Go

I'm Holding These Keys
In My Womb, In My Womb, In My Womb (x3)
And I let Them Go

In My Womb

Sexism has been a bigger problem than racism at the World Cup in Russia, according to anti-discrimination experts advising FIFA. There have been reports of fans harassing female broadcasters while they worked and the head of FIFA’s diversity program says they want less focus on attractive women in stadiums in TV broadcasts. Female pundits have been more plentiful for this tournament, but there is still some distance to go before women football analysts are taken as seriously as their male counterparts. RTÉ sports presenter Jacqui Hurley, Irish International footballer and RTÉ pundit for the World Cup, Stephanie Roche and Margaret Ward, a journalist and founder of Women On Air, speak to Bernice Harrison about what needs to be done if there's to be any chance of leveling the playing field. 

Later in the show: Beck Dorey-Stein has written a memoir called From the Corner of the Oval Office, an account of her five years as President Barack Obama's stenographer. She talks to Bernice about working at the White House.

Ep 231 Women of the World Cup & President Obama's Stenographer

From Margaret Atwood's adventurous canoe trip in the Canadian Wilderness, to Alison Spittle's irate naked granny, to Lisa Dwan's near-death brush with a barracuda, here are some memorable summer holiday stories from friends of the podcast. Hats off to Joya and Priya Hobson who were put to work by their mother Róisín Ingle at the Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas, to gather these stories.

Ep 232 Most Memorable Summer Holidays

This meditation to the elements for Cleansing and protection with Sandra Ingerman is an excerpt from our Global New Moon call to Action, in which Michael and Sandra discuss ways to protect ourselves from these dark energies that are radiating into the web of life. The Global New Moon Calls are a monthly offering from the Well of Light, recordings are available at www.Patreon.com/conversations

New Moon Meditation For Cleansing And Protection With Sandra Ingerman

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Alberto Villoldo has trained as a psychologist and medical anthropologist, and  mastered the healing practices of the Amazon and the Andean shamans. Dr. Villoldo directs The Four Winds Society, where he trains individuals in the practice of shamanic energy medicine. He is the founder of the Light Body School, which has campuses in California, Chile, and Germany. He directs the Center for Energy Medicine in Chile, where he investigates and practices the neuroscience of enlightenment. Dr. Villoldo has written numerous best selling books, including Shaman, Healer, Sage; The Four Insights; Courageous Dreaming; Power Up Your Brain, One Spirit Medicine and his latest book, The Heart of the Shaman. 
https://thefourwinds.com

Conversations with Michael & Alberto Villoldo

Belfast woman Suzanne Connolly was 11 when her adoptive father John Rossi began sexually abusing her. He did so almost daily until she was 14 when after disclosing the abuse to a school friend she was taken out of her home and placed into care. Despite telling the police about the abuse and Rossi admitting his crimes in the 1980s, it took 34 years for the case to be heard. This week John Rossi was convicted of five years in prison but is likely to serve only half of that. Connolly waived her anonymity exclusively to the Irish Times in order to name her abuser and to express her belief that the judicial system is “rigged against children and  enables paedophiles in their crimes”. She tells Roisin Ingle why she is hoping she can play a part in changing the system so that more predators are brought to justice and children in vulnerable situations are protected. 

Also on this week’s episode,  we hear from the makers of Kiss Kiss, Slap Slap, a play about rape culture in Dublin Fringe Festival.

Music: I Knew A Guy, by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Ep 239 Child sexual abuse survivor Suzanne Connolly & Dublin Fringe Festival

Our Book Clubbers Irish Times journalists Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey and septuagenarian book lover Ann Ingle discuss The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien. The book was published in 1960 and described as a “smear on Irish womanhood” because of the way it laid bare the lives of young women in 1950s Ireland. It was famously banned and burned by the parish priest in O’Brien’s home county of Clare. In this episode, hear what our Book Club thought about this iconic Irish novel.

Produced by Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan

Ep 245 Book Club: The Country Girls

Hello and welcome to the very first audio version of a storyteller! (aka newsletter). Each month I share a short story. Some stories really happened.. Some are Fiction but hold a bundle of truth in them. 

This 6 minute audio story is the story of facing the impossible. About a small group of children who fought for life even when everything told them all was lost. This is a story of repeating. 

May it serve you well. 
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Myth, Magic, & Medicine:

Facing The Impossible  Audio Storyletter Jan 21st

In order for us to effect change and to create a secure foundation, it’s crucial for us to go through the process of accepting the stories that we hold.  We need to acknowledge them, we need to be present to them, we need to mourn them and the loss that we feel around them. Ultimately for true healing we want to go forward with a different story around our foundational issues of trust, around safety and around our entitlement to be here in this world and to have what we need in order to survive.

If you want more information about changing your life stories you can visit my corner of the web www.celticsoulessence.com.

How to Cope with Insecurities

I am a Holistic Life Coach, Corporate Wellness Trainer, Storyteller, and your personal mythmaker.  

I am passionate about helping people take control of their lives by releasing the limiting beliefs that hold them back.   

We are all worthy to be here in this world right now and to be seen and heard for our unique talents and gifts.    

I write and teach about Conscious Connection and Conscious Communication.   

You can connect with me at my website www.doloresandrew.com

Finding Your Inner Light

Dolores Andrew