Sparking Change with Dil
Dil Wickremasinghe shines a light on the latest social justice and mental health stories and hopes to inspire positive social change one conversation at time.
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28: #28 | Video Games for Anxiety, with Owen Harris
On this episode of Sparking Change, Dil speaks to Owen Harris – game and Virtual Reality designer – about his VR experience, ‘DEEP’, and how ordinary board games also help him to take care of his mental health.
Owen has dealt regularly with anxiety and ...
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27: #27 | How to Handle Work, with Aoife McElwain
This week on Sparking Change, Aoife McElwain, food writer for The Irish Times and Totally Dublin, talks to Dil about her new book Slow to Work, and the importance of...
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26: #26 | Rachel Moore, of Express your Gender
On this week’s Sparking Change Dil talks to Rachel Moore, a speech and language therapist at Insight Matters, and founder of Express Your Gender (xYg).
Rachel is pa...
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25: #25 | Síofra Dempsey: On Being Non-Binary in the Trans Community
On this week’s episode of Sparking Change, we talk to Síofra Dempsey about the power of pronouns, and the importance (and difficulty) of challenging society’s ideas ...
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24: #24 | A Very Special St. Patrick’s Day Location: The Honest2Goodness Market.
In this week’s Sparking Change, Dil records from a very special St Patrick’s Day location – The Honest2Goodness Market in Glasnevin. We hear from producers and regul...
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23: #23 | Aoife Martin
In this episode of Sparking Change, Dil speaks to Aoife Martin about her experience of returning to work following her transition, and her concerns about the issues ...
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