{"id":17250,"date":"2016-01-11T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=17250"},"modified":"2016-01-11T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:06:13","slug":"first-fortnight-conversation-salons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=17250","title":{"rendered":"First Fortnight Conversation Salons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival runs until 17th January 2016 with a wide variety of events taking place in Dublin and around the country with the aim of challenging mental health stigma.  Conversation Salons are part of this year\u2019s First Fortnight and Heather Bourke, Life Coach, Group Facilitator and Host of the Conversation Salons tells Noel McGuinness all about these events. She explains that they take place in a relaxed caf\u00e9 style setting over tea and coffee in small groups and people choose the topic or question they will discuss.  The intention is for participants to have fun, be inspired and connect with new people. The next Conversation Salon is at 2pm on Thursday 14th January in Room 7, Centre of Education, Beaumont Hospital.   For a full programme of events or to book tickets go to http:\/\/www.firstfortnight.ie\/<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8528\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8528','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=17250-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 19:22 &#8212; 26.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival runs until 17th January 2016 with a wide variety of events taking place in Dublin and around the country with the aim of challenging mental health stigma. Conversation Salons are part of this year\u2019s First Fortnight and Heather Bourke, Life Coach, Group Facilitator and Host of the Conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8529\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8529','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=17250-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-08-01-2016-002.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 19:22 &#8212; 26.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[4169,4166,4167,2016,4168],"class_list":["post-17250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today","tag-conversation","tag-first-fortnight","tag-life-coaches","tag-mental-health","tag-salons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17251,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250\/revisions\/17251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}