Creating Space Project
In the Creating Space Project, clinical psychologist Ruth Nelson interviews women for personal stories and then explores that story for what it reveals about the storyteller's values.
Episodes
Do you ever feel like who you are on the inside is different to the way you perform for other people on the outside? You should listen to this episode. M did beautifully moving artwork for a journal article that I was part of, called Barometers of the City. Published in Human Arenas, it is qualitative research using poetry by psychologists as cultural data.
M reflects on the process of producing art, which for her is about personal...
When is about people not gender?
Sahra and Ruth explore patriarchy as a system of oppression that affects all genders.
Far from experts on the matter, we are two psychologists sitting with self-doubt and the discomfort of critically examining what it is that we value, and how we bring that into a therapy room.
Trillions of dollars have been spent by the Australian government detaining asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea for six years. It would be far better governance to bring about an end to this situation.
Cathy McGowan is the former Independent member for Indi, in rural Victoria. She talks to the Creating Space Project and asks each of us, right now, to email our local Member of Parliament and our state Senators and ask for answers to...
The Creating Space Project is currently exploring feminist psychology and intersectionality, through asking listeners the question “What would you ask a feminist psychologist?”
In this episode, Sahra O'Doherty and Ruth Nelson talk about Tanya's question regarding how you weave feminism into counselling, about being a values-based therapist, and the embodiment of values.
What would you ask a feminist psychologist? Ruth Nelson and Sahra O'Doherty respond to Jess's question about the effect of patriarchy on women's mental health, and how many problems stem from inequality.
"I should look good."
Ruth and Sahra explore the ways feminist values inform their psychology practice. They also explore systems of oppression, layers of privilege, intersectionality, who is allowed to get angry, cultural expectat...
It’s very hard to find the words, “I have experienced this.”
What brings people into counselling?
The Creating Space Project talks about therapy and mental health with psychologist Sahra O’Doherty.
People can spend a lot of time squishing uncomfortable feelings back down, and get worried that if they lift the lid, they’re not too sure what’s going to emerge.
We can be pretty afraid of our emotions. Society teaches us to fear failin...
“I find it very hard to accept that Australia’s national interest is about putting security listening devices of the walls of our poorest, nearest neighbour.”
This is an interview about espionage, exploitation and politics.
Elizabeth Biok is a lawyer and member of the International Commission of Jurists.
She talks to the Creating Space Project about the case of Witness K and his lawyer, Bernard Collaery. These two men exposed the A...
Cherie Heggie is wonderful. She sees the world with an openness and compassion that many of us just can’t seem to attain.
She declared as a Bahá’í in 2015 and what drew her to the faith is its belief that all the major religions of the world are from God. In her life, she has found no difference between herself and the Muslims who live around her.
Talking two days after the terror attacks on the mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand...
Australia has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world. That is amazing and a credit to our public health system.
And, of the people who give birth in Australia, one in three experience it as a traumatic event.
Grace Jeffery is a student midwife.
She talks to the Creating Space Project about helping people feel safe and empowered in labour, and the importance of continuity of care throughout pregnancy and of good post-...
This is a beautiful, relaxing, bilingual conversation between guest interviewer, Gavin, professional interpreter, Sajsajee, and naturopath, Jik.
Jik is a naturopath. She practices Kai Therapy.
With her husband, she has established an organic city farm in the middle of Bangkok. Their hope is to educate people about holistic approaches to health.
From volunteering with street children, Jik now tries to educate people about integrat...
Jaeb is a woman of vision, as well as extraordinary humility.
“If I know anything, it’s that I know nothing.”
When Jaeb and her husband first purchased land in central Thailand, the soil was so degraded by monocrop farming and heavy use of chemical fertilisers, it was like rock.
They started growing trees for shade around the house. Initially, Jaeb and James had many failures, with thousands of saplings dying.
But then they discove...
"Where are you getting the next lot of food?" And he just shrugged his shoulders.
Ev Van Bo and her husband packed up their caravan for a trip around Australia. They thought that perhaps, on the way, they should stop to help a farmer.
So they contacted the Country Women’s Australia and were put in contact with Nea Worrell, from the Baradine CWA Drought Pantry.
She may have spent the first week leaving the cover on the thermometer w...
Kim is a Joondoburri Salt-Water woman from Yirin, the traditional name of Bribie Island, South East Queensland.
She found out at the age of 21 that she is Aboriginal.
As a child, Kim's father was sent to a boys’ home to learn Western ways, his mother having been persuaded that this was in his best interests.
In this institution, her father sustained appalling abuse.
Now that her father walks with the Ancestors, Kim shares with the ...
"I am a link between my father and my ancestors, the Incas, and knowledge formed thousands of years ago."
The daughter of a Shaman, Julia has just released a book of her father's stories.
Abuelito tells the tales of boyhood adventures with Eduardo Paez's grandfather in the foothills of Ecuador, trekking into mountains, visiting his special tree, watching the rituals of the wise men.
Stories of fun and adventure, they also represen...
Kate is a farmer in outback NSW. She loves farming and she loves her land.
Her cattle wander the paddocks in peace, in view of the Warrumbungles.
"Anything that’s had a happy life is good. One bad day and that’s the day they’re on the truck."
At the moment, keeping the cattle alive is hard.
Kate describes the most extensive drought she has seen in 40 years in Coonabarabran. Even the native trees have not survived.
Among dust stor...
Kim works in town during the week and on the family farm on weekends. Her family are trying to keep some of their cattle alive during the drought.
Resilience is a complicated business. It is the quality of bouncing back, surviving or thriving, and is revealed in hard times.
Kim is the embodiment of resilience. She brings love, hope, commitment and loyalty to the work of emotionally sustaining her family through a drought that is sl...
Amid the bustle and kindness of the Baradine Country Women's Association hall, Isabelle took time away from volunteering to talk to the Creating Space Project.
Isabelle’s mum, Julia, tells a story about running away to her grandmother’s house whenever she needed a break.
Isabelle, confident and insightful, uses that story to reflect on what’s important to her life.
Family and working hard. Those things matter a great deal to Isabe...
“I am the fourth generation of incredibly strong women.”
When Julia was four years old, she was run over by the family car and pronounced dead. Somehow, she was revived and recovered from the incident without lasting harm.
Julia Baird is the daughter of Nea Worrell, the amazing woman integral to the Drought Pantry at the Baradine Country Women’s Association, and previously interviewed on the podcast about the ways this drought, the...
The Baradine Country Women’s Association is 90 years old. At the moment, its hall is full of supplies and vouchers, donated from around NSW and Queensland to support farmers and to try and keep the local shops alive.
Nea Worrell, part of a family with five generations in the CWA, talks to the Creating Space Project about the impact of the drought.
“We’ve had that farm for forty-odd years, my husband has been farming for seventy...
When you interview someone at the Risk and Dare youth justice conference, held in a high school, it's tough finding a quiet spot, especially when you only have 10 minutes...
Elise talks about being moved by the story of two women who arrived in Australia as refugees.
“The refugees I’ve encountered are so strong.”
The resilience shown by people fleeing vulnerable situations is the key characteristic Elise sees.
She believes young p...
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