<![CDATA[Therapeutic Landscapes: Ritual, Folklore, and Wellbeing]]>e2985a80-4f54-5b9e-a8b5-4f57d33caca5Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:45:01 +0000Captivate.fmTherapeutic Landscapeshttps://artwork.captivate.fm/a4dedbfd-54c0-4a5c-aec5-15aead135666/Therapeutic-Landscapes-Podcast-Cover.pngTherapeutic Landscapes: Ritual, Folklore, and WellbeingTherapeutic LandscapesTherapeutic LandscapesBringing together researchers, practitioners, and thinkers exploring the intersections of place, culture, and health. From ancient folk traditions to contemporary therapeutic practice, these conversations ask what landscapes, physical, imagined, and remembered, do for us.https://therapeutic-landscapes.captivate.fmfalseepisodicnopodcastTherapeutic Landscapes: What Happened, What's Coming, and Why It MattersTherapeutic Landscapes: What Happened, What's Coming, and Why It MattersIn this second episode, Dr John Cussans and Desdemona McCannon look back at what made Year One so powerful: the keynotes, the workshops, the singers and storytellers, and the overwhelming sense from everyone who attended that they had finally found their people.

They also look ahead. To a second year that's already shaping up to be bigger than the first, and to a longer vision of festivals, rural venues, and a network of practitioners, spaces and ideas that can keep nourishing each other long after the conference ends.

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They also look ahead. To a second year that's already shaping up to be bigger than the first, and to a longer vision of festivals, rural venues, and a network of practitioners, spaces and ideas that can keep nourishing each other long after the conference ends.

]]>d5c73e92-7886-4641-80fd-86794ee1e1f2Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:17:00 +000013:21falsefull22Therapeutic Landscapes Conference: Folk Culture, Healing Places, and How It All BeganTherapeutic Landscapes Conference: Folk Culture, Healing Places, and How It All BeganIn this first episode, conference organisers Dr John Cussans and Desdemona McCannon share the story of how the Therapeutic Landscapes conference came to be. From an earlier symposium called Enchanted Environments, through their shared interests in folk culture, arts and health, and the healing power of place, to the moment the first call for papers went out, and the response was better than they could have imagined.

]]>In this first episode, conference organisers Dr John Cussans and Desdemona McCannon share the story of how the Therapeutic Landscapes conference came to be. From an earlier symposium called Enchanted Environments, through their shared interests in folk culture, arts and health, and the healing power of place, to the moment the first call for papers went out, and the response was better than they could have imagined.

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