Welcome to Community Possibilities ®! This In this podcast, I will be joined by community leaders, doing the hard work of social change. We will talk about root causes and dig deep to understand social and health inequities. Let's imagine all of the possibilities if we learn how to talk to each other, not at each other. more

Join the Friendship Bench founder, Dixon Chibanda to find out what it is that connects us as human beings across the globe. Over the last 15 years Dixon has led the replication the Friendship Bench model in different parts of the world. We bring you stories that will inspire you to do something about improving your own personal life, your family, and your community.The Friendship Bench mission is getting people out of depression by creating safe spaces and a sense of belonging in communities to enhance quality of life. more

This is a companion podcast to The Community Psychologist (TCP). We will have important conversations about the field of community psychology, responses to some of our featured articles, and follow-up from previous issues. more

This monthly podcast for medical students, residents, fellows, and early career professionals will include interviews with community psychiatrists to learn about their career trajectories, conversations about recent articles from the Community Mental Health Journal, discussions of key concepts from the Textbook of Community Psychiatry, and more. The purpose of the podcast is to connect, educate, and inspire trainees and young community psychiatrists. Created by the American Association for Community Psychiatry (AACP). Follow us on Instagram (@aacp_communitypsych) and Twitter (@AACP123). more

pihtikwê means 'welcome' in the Cree language. In this podcast, three leading First Nations psychologists, Dr. Brenda Restoule, Dr. Holly Graham and Dr. Alanaise Ferguson, welcome Indigenous psychologists and health leaders in the mental wellness fields to share their stories, knowledge, and lived experiences.Together they discuss how that relates to challenges and successes in navigating and working within systems of care, and strength-based and cultural approaches to healing. more

The Strength and Solidarity Podcast is a conversational piece that invites scholars, community activists, leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs to discuss their work as accomplices in cultivating cross-racial/ethnic solidarity. The podcasts vision is that we exist because we believe that white supremacy is a public health crisis. Therefore, it is our collective responsibility through critical action and reflection to collaborate to construct a liberated future as accomplices of each other by engaging, educating, evaluating, empowering, and elevating the voices of all communities of color. more

Our mission: In partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, the Public Mental Health Partnership at UCLA aims to realize a vision for excellence in care for vulnerable populations that incorporates typically marginalized perspectives and builds capacity to foster health equity.Visit our website for more information: pmhp.ucla.edu more

Discovering Community Psychology is a brand new podcast hoping to make community psychology ideas and practice more accessible. In our first mini series we will be having conversations with numerous psychological professionals, activists and community leaders about their work within and alongside communities, highlighting the variety and impact of this collaborative and transformative approach. more

Liberation Now is a podcast about research, practice and activism around healing and liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. We share inspirational content and stories to provide hope and possibilities for a more liberated future. more

A podcast on community

Indaba is a global podcast that brings together scholars, practitioners, and activists as we re-imagine and reconstruct how we relate to and live in the world.Rooted in a Critical Community psychology, an interdisciplinary social science driven by social justice and decolonial values, we explore methodological, theoretical, and practical knowledge that informs our social change practice. Indaba is a South African Indigenous term for a meeting and through this show we foster a coming together to share and engage with ideas with a collective of voices from around the world.Curated into five pairs of episodes exploring our everyday praxis, each beginning with a contextually grounded storytelling episode followed by a critical reflection dialogue with members of our global collective including South Africa, Indonesia, Chile, Australia, Palestine, and Canada.The show is created by a global network of supporters including faculty partners Natalie Kivell, Christopher Sonn, Marianne Daher Gray, Monica Madyaningrum, Garth Stevens, and Manuel Riemer and a Grad student collective including Ramy Barhouche, Rejane Williams, Marika Handfield, Rama Agung-Igusti, Roshani Jayawardana, Antonia Rosati, María José Campero, Elizabeth Brunet, and Sam Keast with audio production by Andre Goulet and Rob Rousseau with consultation from Nashwa Khan and graphic art by melisse Watson.In-kind and financial support for Indaba comes courtesy of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the Psychological Society of South Africa, Victoria University of Melbourne Australia, The Centre for Community Research, Learning, and Action and Office of Research Services at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Ontario and the Society for Community Research and Action. more

We believe that insights and practices from the realm of therapy can contribute to a better world for all. At least, that's our hope... In an era marked by climate crisis, conflicts, and escalating inequality, any positive contribution is surely welcome. But what, more specifically, can the fields of therapy, psychology, psychiatry, and mental health offer to create a more equitable, sustainable, and flourishing world? This is the question we aim to explore in this podcast series. Hosted by Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology and author of 'Psychology at the Heart of Social Change' (Policy Press, 2023), as well as a father of four, and John Wilson, a Psychotherapist, Educator, and Co-Director of Onlinevents, we will engage in conversations with a diverse array of therapists, writers, and other perceptive and influential individuals. We aim to delve into the depths of the human psyche while connecting it to current social and political issues—all with energy, enthusiasm, and a touch of humour, we hope! Sponsored by Onlinevents: https://www.onlinevents.co.uk/ more

What if an important part of the answer to our community mental health challenges doesn't lie within us… but between us?Bringing Community Back Together, hosted by Samantha Heron, explores the growing impact of social fragmentation - from rising anxiety in young people to loneliness in older adults - and how connection across generations can be an important part of the answer.Through real conversations fortnightly with educators, aged care leaders, and community voices, this podcast highlights the role we all play in building meaningful engagement, belonging and stronger communities. more

The Temple University Collaborative's 'Collab Chats' is a podcast series focused that introduces listeners to our research and its goal of increasing opportunities for individuals with mental illnesses to live and participate in the community. This podcast features work from the Temple University Collaborative as well as research from other NIDILRR funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers. The Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, a research and training center located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, is dedicated to the full and meaningful participation of individuals with serious mental illnesses. Funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), the content of these podcasts does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by the US Federal Government, HHS, the ACL, or NIDILRR. more

Welcome to Making Positive Psychology Work For Communities, a special edition podcast series brought to you by The Wellbeing Lab, that highlights a community wellbeing case study in Midland, Michigan, USA. In this short series, you'll learn about one community's collective impact in creating more wellbeing across an entire region. To grab your free copy of the Surprising Stories eBook, just visit www.thewellbeinglab.com/communitypodcast more

A casual conversation about community inclusion and understanding people with behavioral health issues

Welcome to Psychologies of Liberation, a podcast that examines the goals and practices of psychology with radical imagination to help us all get free. This podcast is for all of us world builders who are not only interested in grappling with systems, structures, and ideologies that threaten our well-being, but who dream into new futures for relationships that are grounded in joy, equity, and everyone's right to beautiful, radiant things.The guests on this pod come from diverse backgrounds, professional pedigrees, identities, and perspectives. They embody the multiplicity of ideas, practices, and projects that yearn toward collective healing in new ways. You will find a range of topics discussed here, from therapist self-disclosure, to labor organizing for a functional mental health ecosystem, to informal networks of psychological support, to important considerations for new therapists and the educators that mentor them, to the question of 'What are we trying to liberate ourselves from?'The themes and title of this podcast are inspired by Helene Shulman and Mary Watkins's seminal book, Toward Psychologies of Liberation, in which they envision liberatory psychology as a great river that is fed by many streams, all longing for transformation that addresses psychological suffering. This podcast is an attempt to explore and highlight a few of these headwaters.There is something here for mental health workers, academics, movement activists, and anyone who is interested in decolonizing traditional notions of psychology and considering the ways in which we can and are already do live into joy and healing together. more