PODCAST · health
Compassion Revolution
by Freerthinking
We dive into what it means to practice love, compassion, courage and all the hard work of showing up to shape a compassion revolution across health care.
Episodes
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S3, E6: Showing Up Hard
In this podcast Mary Freer dives into the beauty and muscle of boundaries with Shannon Weber. This is a conversation for anyone who has experienced boundary crossings, violations and harm where we have needed to create boundaries. It’s also for all of us who want to be of service or grow in...
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S3, E5: The Neuroscience of Art, Beauty and Overwhelm
Mary Freer joins Dr Sará King to talk about all things neuroscience. The conversation traces Sará’s work with MOMA to build trauma informed galleries and museums where people can enjoy art through to an enlivening conversation about what actually happens to our bodies and minds when we experience...
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S3, E4: Co-designing a kinder world
K.A McKercher joins Mary Freer in conversation about co-designing our work with others in the hope that we might build kinder, more caring and just worlds.
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S3, E3: Creating Spaces for Listening
Kate Bowles is narrative researcher and patient advocate and teaches at the University of Wollongong. Kate writes online at musicfordeckchairs.com. Brigid Russell is a coach and facilitator who works alongside people in the public and third sectors across Scotland. She believes in a relational...
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S3, E2: Post-Traumatic Growth
Selma Quist Møller is a pyschologist and researcher specialising in post-traumatic growth. Ahead of her visit to Australia, Selma talks with Mary about how times of crisis and trauma can provide windows for transformation.
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S3, E1: Grief at Work
In this episode Mary joins her guests Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn, Founders of the Good Mourning Podcast to talk about the experience of grief and some of the ways we can create a compassionate work place.
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S2, E4: SUMA
Compassion Revolution - Mary Freer. In this episode Mary introduces us to the practice SUMA - Showing Up, Understanding, Moving Closer and Acting. Oh and a little heart tap at the end.
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S2, E3: Showing Up
Compassion Revolution - Mary Freer. Here is S2 Ep3 of my podcast "Until we show up the play can't start". We are an important characters in the narrative arc of this story of our own life. Until we show up we can't make anything worthwhile happen.
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S2, E2: Ripe for Redesign
Compassion Revolution - Mary Freer. Here is S2 Ep2 of my podcast Ripe for Redesign. We're living in a moment that is so ready for our attention. Now is a time to line our values up to support our roles so we can make recovery possible.
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S2, E1: Keep Going
Compassion Revolution - Mary Freer. Keep Going. In this episode Mary gets a bit excited about her new book and reminds us just how much she loves a constraint.
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Episode 53: Doing The Work Part Two
This is part two in the series Doing The Work. This week Mary introduces us to some of the Black writers and teachers she is learning from. This episode is an invitation to white identified listeners to come along and do the work of compassion. #BlackLivesMatter
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Episode 52: Doing The Work Part One
This week Mary declares her white privilege and talks about how she is committing to dismantle it as a daily effort. This podcast is an invitation to white identified listeners to come along on the journey of doing the work of compassion. #BlackLivesMatter
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Episode 51: Begin Again
Every day, every hour, every breath we get a chance to begin again. Fresh start.
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Episode 50: 50 Shades of Grateful
This week Mary celebrates fifty episodes of the Compassion Revolution podcast and offers up 50 things she has come to be grateful for during this global pandemic, including hand sanitiser.
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Episode 49: Hello to all the things
Maybe we could sit still for a moment today and say hello to all the changing, rumbling, expansive and contracting things that coronavirus has brought into our lives?
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Episode 48: This is not a sprint
This week we go on a hike, instead of sprinting our way through this pandemic we take very deliberate steps with our eyes wide open.
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Episode 47: What’s Love Got To Do With It
This is our once in a lifetime opportunity to really shape the future. What do we want a post-corona world to look like? Let's talk about the politics of love.
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Episode 46: Rise Up Revolutionaries
This week Mary goes deep in the blanket fortress to tell us all everything our hearts need to hear to get us through the next 6 months.
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Episode 45: Renè and Georgette
Making friends is an essential part of life and there are just so many people and animals and plants and landscapes and seascapes to be friends with.
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Episode 44: Do Nothing
Mary is reading all about how to do nothing in the attention economy. This week she reminds us that we are human beings not human doings.
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Episode 43: When All The Blocks Fall Down
This episode is all about how we maintain our composure when things get bumpy.
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Episode 42: Sometimes there is pain
Pain visits everyone. Sometimes she stays for a whole lot longer than we would like. How can we keep loving ourselves through all the pain?
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Episode 41: My House is On Fire
In the midst of a climate emergency, when so much of Australia has been burnt Mary encourages us to take up hope, A hope that is like an axe to break down a door.
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Episode 40: Values
This week Mary revisits an episode all about Values. Might be a great time of year to re-think our values.
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Episode 39: Compassion is generative
This week we revisit an earlier podcast where we are reminded of the ripple effect that kindness and compassion really have.
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Episode 38: Showing Up
Mary revisits an earlier episode where we are encouraged to show up for ourselves as much as anyone else.
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Episode 37: Self Compassion
Directing compassion towards ourselves isn't easy and there are many obstacles. But this week we all need an extra dose. Enjoy!
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Episode 36: Loving Kindness
It's a proven fact that practising this little meditation every day for 2 weeks will change your brain. Go on, you know you want to.
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Episode 35: Can we Teach Compassion?
The answer to this question is 'Yes!' and this week Mary looks at the evidence.
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Episode 34: Tips for This Time of Year
Around about now everything speeds up and people with a cart load of groceries appear in the ten items or less aisle. This week we practice finding our calm.
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Episode 33: Empathy or compassion
Do you ever feel like you have so much empathy you could burst? Let's turn some of that empathy into compassion.
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Episode 32: Mind full or mindful
It seems that people are thinking a lot about mindfulness at the moment. But are we all talking about the same thing?
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Episode 31: Come in from the cold
Mary reflects on self compassion how we might include ourselves in the frame a little more. We get so very good at leaving ourselves out in the cold.
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Episode 30: Thirty things I wish I knew 30 years ago
Time flys when you’re a podcast! This week we celebrate our 30th Episode with a little dose of wisdom, Mary style.
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Episode 29: The body is not an apology
What if we practised a new kind of radical self love? Let’s give that a try.
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Episode 28: It’s me and I’m alive
The joy of being alive! This week we come home to ourselves.
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Episode 27: Recharge OR Endure
There's a lot said about resilience, most of it wrong. To go the distance we need to recharge not endure. Mary shares a few of her own life-hacks.
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Episode 26: Love and Kindness
Loving Kindness Meditation is Mary's go-to meditation at airports and shopping centres. Find out how you can send love while you're doing the shopping.
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Episode 25: Being Me
What's it like to be you? Mary asks the next question: what's it like to be on the receiving end of you?
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Episode 24: Clearing Snow
How do we manage Advantage Blindness, even when we are setting out to clear snow. Nothing is only as we experience it.
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Episode 23: Is it love we need?
Everyday in so many ways we create these little temples to love. Mary keeps seeing them everywhere.
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Episode 22: Post Conference Euphoria
The first Compassion Revolution Conference was last week and Mary is still on cloud 9. In this podcast she listens again to the amazing closing ceremony. Have you heard it ?
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Episode 21: Meet My Friends
This week on the podcast we think about the real purpose of friendship and how we can be a generous and reliable friend to ourselves and others.
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Episode 20: Values
Understanding our values is powerful stuff. This week Mary bans the merch and encourages us all to own our values.
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Episode 19: So grateful my brain is changing
This week on the podcast we discover that being grateful actually changes the molecular structure of our brains. Thanks for that!
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Episode 18: The Joy of it All
Serendipity takes over and Mary revisits the idea that joy is the labor by which we make the life we want to live possible. It’s like chopping wood and carrying water.
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Episode 17: Bridging
As John Powell of the HAAS Institute says “Of all the forces shaping politics and power around the world, perhaps none are more important than our sense of who we are, and who we are becoming.” This week we look at Bridging and Breaking.
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Episode 16: #realtalk
My friends us the term #realtruth to describe the things we need to say to people that sometimes feel really uncomfortable. Or the things we want to say about ourselves that take extra courage. This week it’s #realtalk
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Episode 15: Activism
Do you ever feel disheartened? This week Mary remembers that change doesn’t happen like a shot out of a pistol. It happens in all these amazing incremental moments. People lay the ground work and often they don’t see the fruit of their work or they don’t recognise that their work was instrumental.
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Episode 14: Relentless Optimism
Mary got challenged about her positivity and that got her thinking about how we make choices.
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