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Today Geoff is talking to Arian Samouie, healer and life-coach, who tells us about his own journey through trauma from his experience as a refugee in the UK and what he is doing today to share what he has learnt and help others in their journey.  You can engage with his content on his website or media channels: www.ariansamouie.com Insta, FB, TikTok, Soundcloud: @arian_samouie YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJLf_QdB9icW3mhCPX66brg

Our second podcast in Liverpool!  We are excited to chat with Ian and John from the Florrie, a community centre that's been helping community in L8, Liverpool since the 1800s. With yoga, guitar classes, festivals and a café, its got a lot to offer anyone in need of a bit of support.  Listen to the end to hear our last instalment from Eltham Arts' Connecting Communities letter exchange project.  With love 3 

in this episode, we speak to Iqra from Mary Seacole house who work with BAMER. They are based in Liverpool and you can them at https://www.maryseacolehouse.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/maryseacolehouse.seacole/ Enjoy. 

Geoff caught up with Daniel & Shelene from Wellbeing SE15 who we haven't heard from since October 2019 CBSE15 issue! We loved supporting them on their Wellbeing SE15 event health Peckham Palms in 2019 and we are excited to hear what they had been up to since then. Join us to hear about their work addressing colon and bowel cancer in the BAME community and other health challenges and solutions in Peckham. Stay tuned until the end to hear another Creating Connections story from Eltham Arts - creating connections between young and old to banish loneliness. With love x

Welcome to episode 5! Today Geoff is speaking to Woody from Level 6 who is opening a new CIC to help people get into yoga and give people the opportunity to train as a yoga instructor. Woody will tell us about the benefits of yoga, how you can get involved and why he loves it! Stay tuned until the end to hear another Creating Connections story from Eltham Arts - creating connections between young and old to banish loneliness. Tune in, relax and listen to your community.

Geoff speaks to Shermaine and Pragya from @ElthamArts who are banishing loneliness by helping people find connection no matter their age. We will be hearing more about Creating Connections from Shermaine and Pragya today and each month as we spotlight the stories that were created. Tune in, relax and listen to your community. Fill in our evaluation to help us understand our impact: https://form.typeform.com/to/DJwQrwi3

Season 4 | Episode 3 Geoff speaks to Ryan Nell founder of @LevitateLondon on our latest podcast episode.⁠ ⁠ Levitate have been kind enough to donate meditations for our community to access through the podcast. We are excited to have Ryan on this week to learn more about Levitate and his journey to mindfulness. Tune in, relax and listen to your community. Listen to the end to follow a guided meditation. Fill in our evaluation to help us understand our impact: https://form.typeform.com/to/DJwQrwi3

Today Geoff is joined by Ivo Gormley, founder, and director of GoodGym. GoodGym helps volunteers keep active and motivated by running, cycling, or walking to vulnerable people and nonprofits to help out. Tune in to hear about another great, free activity you can get involved with and finish off with a guided meditation from Ryan at Levitate. To find out more about Good Gym visit their website www.goodgym.org

Season 4 | Episode 1 Welcome the new season of the Community Bridges Podcast! Today Geoff is speaking to Hemal from easyGym Camberwell about keeping fit at home, being a fitness business in a pandemic and how we can support our health together.  Ryan from Levitate joins us for a 10-minute guided meditation to help you keep healthy at home. Check out @Get Fit Camberwell on Facebook NHS workers watch @easyGymCamberwell for their free fitness app coming soon To hear more from Levitate visit www.levitate.london

Season 3 | Episode 8 Join us for the final episode of the Community Spotlights Series. Today, Geoff will be speaking to Community Bridges founder Sandra about putting the season together, favorite moments and 2021 plans for CB.  Listen to a fun final episode where we will look back on the previous 7 episodes of The CB Spotlight Series.  Give us your feedback. Click here. Visit our website Facebook & Instagram

Season 3 | Episode 7 Join us for the seventh episode of the Community Spotlights Series. Today, Geoff will be speaking to community organiser Claire from Citizens Southwark who support member organisation to develop leader who can hold decision-makers to account. Abieyuwa and Elsie are part of Citizens UK project Parents and Communities Together (PACT)  who have lead the Settle Our Status campaign https://www.citizensuk.org/settled-status-letter   Join us for conversations about community activism, creating change and the realities of what living without a status in the UK are.  To find out more visit:  https://www.pact-citizens.org/ Facebook: @PACTSouthwark Insta: pact_southwark Twitter: @SouthwarkCitz

Season 3 | Episode 6 Join us for the sixth episode of our new Community Spotlights Series. Today, Geoff will be speaking to founder Ursula and client Michelle from Ldn Dares Drama Co. who help people learn confidence in their own skin, self-compassion and nurture a positive body image through the use of drama and dares. Join us for conversations about body image, transgender news from @WhatTheTrans and health. To find out more visit:  https://www.ldndares.co.uk/  Facebook @LdnDares.co.uk   Instagram: @LdnDares