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SafeSpace.

SafeSpace.

著者： Mariam Pereira
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概要

 SafeSpace is a new grounding and respite podcast aimed at Healthcare Professionals focused on staff wellbeing in the healthcare work environment, a grossly overlooked issue and yet, I would argue, the cornerstone of the healthcare system which is why it is crumbling. There are 3 components to the podcast: - Candid interviews with healthcare leaders, and a wide variety of passionate healthcare professionals about their own experiences and struggles with their wellbeing as they have progressed through their careers - Reflective discussions with a clinical psychologist, my co-host, regarding key topics that have arisen such as coping with bullying, depression, burnout, grief, menopause etc - Guided meditations specific to the healthcare worker getting ready for the day ahead, a pause during, and winding down and acceptance following the working day. This podcast is not a panacea or substitute for a formal management plan, but a motivating, and catharsis tool to help during a stressful day. マネジメント マネジメント・リーダーシップ 出世 就職活動 心理学 心理学・心の健康 経済学 衛生・健康的な生活 身体的病い・疾患
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  • Confronting the Mental Health Crisis in Medicine with Dr. Christine Muhota

    Confronting the Mental Health Crisis in Medicine with Dr. Christine Muhota
    2026/02/03
    The discount code SAFESPACE20 gives 20% off all 12-month access on Pastest’s post-graduate exam platforms If you like the episode, please follow on Instagram @safespace.hcp and TikTok @safespacer0 for more content and share. Extended guided meditations are coming soon on my Substack and website www.saferspace.info In this powerful episode, Mariam sits down with Dr. Christine Muhota, an internal medicine doctor and a leading advocate for mental health within the medical community. Dr. Muhota shares her personal journey through burnout during her clinical years and explains the ‘grassroots’ origins of her award-winning charity, Mind Health for Medical Students. KEY TAKEAWAYS Dr. Muhota emphasises that the first step to cultural change is breaking the silence; realising that colleagues are ‘silently struggling’ creates the solidarity needed to build support systems. Medical schools often offer ‘performative action’ (like help forms or emails) without ensuring these resources are accessible, effective, or free from stigma. True leadership isn't about being the loudest voice; it is about delegating, trusting your team, and creating a safe environment where other voices can emerge. A sustainable medical training model must include mandatory time off for students and doctors to recover, attend personal appointments, and prevent total exhaustion. Burnout is not a personal weakness or an individual failure; it is a ‘natural response’ to an unsustainable system that depletes its staff without replenishing them. BEST MOMENTS "I realised that oh, I'm getting a lot more tired. I'm not able to sleep very well, and I realised actually we're all kind of silently struggling." "Imagine if compassion wasn't seen as an extra, it's the base of the pizza. It's the sauce as well as the base. It’s not some kind of extra thing that you sprinkle on top." "You can’t pour compassion from an empty cup. The system has to also create the spaces for us to uphold this, otherwise it’s hard." "Leadership does not mean that your voice is the loudest in the room. It is about creating a safe space for other people’s voices and ideas to come through, and then you amplify that." "Sustainability comes from being able to connect with who are you working for, what is the current need, and how are we going to make this happen."
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    1 時間 1 分
  • Doctors Are Human First: Breaking the Silence on Mental Health with Dr. Daniel Gearon

    Doctors Are Human First: Breaking the Silence on Mental Health with Dr. Daniel Gearon
    2026/01/27
    The discount code SAFESPACE20 gives 20% off all 12-month access on Pastest’s post-graduate exam platforms If you like the episode, please follow on Instagram @safespace.hcp and TikTok @safespacer0 for more content and share. Extended guided meditations are coming soon on my Substack and website www.saferspace.info In this powerful episode, Mariam sits down with Dr. Daniel Gearon, a surgical trainee and the founder of the charity YouOkayDoc. Daniel shares the personal tragedy that sparked a movement: the loss of his cousin and fellow doctor, Liz Sizer, to suicide. Together, they explore the dangerous stigma of ‘invincibility’ in medicine, the high rates of suicide within the profession, and the urgent need to view doctors as humans before healers. KEY TAKEAWAYS YouOkayDoc was founded in response to the tragic suicide of Dr. Liz Sizer in 2016. It was created to fill a void in the medical community, providing a bespoke mental health support system specifically for doctors who often feel they have nowhere to turn. The medical culture often equates resilience with silence and endurance. Daniel highlights how doctors are conditioned to view their own mental struggles as weakness, fearing that admitting they need help will make them seem unfit for the competitive environment of medicine. One of YouOkayDoc’s core initiatives, the ‘Weekly Huddle’, proved that peer-to-peer connection is vital. Providing a safe, virtual space where doctors can drop the white coat persona and speak openly about trauma and exhaustion has been a lifeline for many. Daniel opens up about his own struggles balancing a surgical career with running a national charity. His decision to take time out for a Master's degree and seek therapy illustrates that stepping back and asking for help are acts of strength, not failure. BEST MOMENTS "I think the culture within healthcare professionals is that if they were to admit that there is something going on, the fear is: 'How can I be shown to be weak in such a strong, competitive environment?'" "We’ve become desensitised as doctors to what we're exposed to, and what we're taught how to cope with at medical school, is to soldier on." "It's saying the unsaid, saying what we all know but are not articulating." "Saving lives doesn't always come in the form of medical intervention, sometimes it comes through words, presence, and listening." "If you're going to start a charity, you have to focus on the community that you're going to serve first, because the community are going to be the people that rally around the organisation." HOST BIO Mariam is a GP trainee in Wales passionate about improving our healthcare colleagues' wellbeing. She has experience on the Schwartz Round Steering group and as a facilitator for her health board, and she created and led the Balint Group Programme for Foundation Doctors in her hospital. These are regular spaces for healthcare professionals to speak about real issues that affect their well-being amongst colleagues to improve mutual support and camaraderie in the workplace. She also holds qualifications in Life Coaching and healthcare leadership and management. Whatever your reason for joining us on this podcast, we are glad you have taken the time. If you are having stressful days at work, leaving you feeling demotivated, and depleted, I'm hoping I can help here. This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media. https://disruptivemedia.co.uk/
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    1 時間 8 分
  • Navigating the Storms of Healthcare with Manley Hopkinson

    Navigating the Storms of Healthcare with Manley Hopkinson
    2026/01/22
    The discount code SAFESPACE20 gives 20% off all 12-month access on Pastest’s post-graduate exam platforms If you like the episode please follow on Instagram @safespace.hcp and TikTok @safespacer0 for more content and share. Extended guided meditations are coming soon on my Substack and website www.saferspace.info In this powerful episode of Safe Space, Mariam is joined by Manley Hopkinson, author of Compassionate Leadership and founder of the Compassionate Leadership Academy. Drawing from his extreme experiences ranging from the Royal Navy to racing yachts around the world and trekking to the North Pole, Manley shares profound insights on why compassion and performance are allies, not opposites. Together, they explore how the principles of compassionate leadership can be applied to the high-pressure, often traumatic environment of modern healthcare. Manley deconstructs the myth that compassion is ‘soft’, arguing instead that it is the bedrock of resilience, commitment, and high performance. KEY TAKEAWAYS Compassion isn't just about being nice; it's about understanding with positive action. It serves as the foundation for high performance, especially in extreme environments like the North Pole or a busy hospital ward, because it builds the trust and safety necessary for teams to function under pressure. True leadership is about gaining commitment, not just compliance. When leaders tap into an individual's self-worth through compassion, they gain discretionary effort and engagement, whereas forcing compliance only breeds resistance and minimal effort. Compassionate leadership begins with self-compassion and self-awareness. Leaders must understand their own biases, motivations, and emotional states to effectively lead others, especially when navigating the ‘storms’ of a crisis. To go faster and be more effective, leaders should invest time upfront to align the team, establish human connections, and clarify the ‘why’. This ‘stop before you start’ approach builds the commitment needed to weather the inevitable challenges ahead. Effective leadership requires balancing both ‘masculine’ (directive, independent) and ‘feminine’ (nurturing, collaborative) energies. Over-reliance on one, particularly the toxic expectations of traditional masculinity, can hinder performance and well-being. BEST MOMENTS "Compassion is to work with that knowledge with positive intent. That's a hugely powerful statement. So in other words, compassion is understanding with positive action." "The principle of compassionate leadership is sort of almost beaten into healthcare, but it's all focused towards the patient. What it should be directed to is towards the healthcare worker." "You don't fatten a pig by measuring it; you've actually got to feed it. And over-measuring just slows things down, it just makes it even worse." "Compassion is the route to commitment. Commitment is the route to performance. And so much more." "If empathy is to understand, compassion is to work with that knowledge with positive intent." HOST BIO Mariam is a GP trainee in Wales passionate about improving our healthcare colleagues' wellbeing. She has experience on the Schwartz Round Steering group and as a facilitator for her health board, and she created and led the Balint Group Programme for Foundation Doctors in her hospital. These are regular spaces for healthcare professionals to speak about real issues that affect their well-being amongst colleagues to improve mutual support and camaraderie in the workplace. She also holds qualifications in Life Coaching and healthcare leadership and management. Whatever your reason for joining us on this podcast, we are glad you have taken the time. If you are having stressful days at work, leaving you feeling demotivated, and depleted, I'm hoping I can help here. This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media. https://disruptivemedia.co.uk/
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    1 時間 23 分
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