Fatigued, languished, exhausted, burnt out, depleted - we are all becoming a little too familiar with these terms but what exactly can we do about it and why is it happening? The term burnout may have been coined in 1974 but manifestations of stress and exhaustion appear to have exacerbated since we transitioned to life online. Tara Stewart will dig into the roots of burnout with cognitive psychologist, Celine Fox, and mindfulness and meditation expert, Conor Creighton.

GUESTS

Conor Creighton is an author, journalist, coach, and meditation teacher, Conor has been travelling the globe as a reporter, a motivational speaker and a meditation teacher for almost twenty years. He is the author of two books and has been published in the Guardian, the Irish Times, and Vice Magazine. He has won the Irish Travel Journalist of the Year Award, the Gwaertler Foundation Award, and the Simon Cumbers Media Fund on three occasions.

He came to meditation in 2012 and quickly became immersed in the study of mindfulness meditation and vipassana meditation. He trained in India with the Dalai Lama, and at the Redwood Institute in San Francisco. He has sat several long retreats and studied a number of meditation types. Conor's teaching is a cross-pollination of ancient techniques and contemporary wisdom. Conor is a down-to-earth teacher, and a natural storyteller, a skill he learned in part from his many years as a writer, but also as a bartender. He is based in Berlin and Dublin.

Celine Fox completed her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Trinity College Dublin in 2018. She then went on to complete a master’s degree in Clinical Neuropsychiatry at King’s College London in 2019. Celine is currently doing a Ph.D. in Psychology at the Gillan Lab, Trinity College Dublin. As part of her Ph.D. research, which is funded by the Irish Research Council, she is working with longitudinal clinical and cognitive data, collected regularly and remotely. 

Celine's ultimate goal is to develop clinical tools that can predict the future course of mental health problems on an individualised basis. These clinical tools are being developed and delivered via a smartphone app called Neureka. At Neureka, users can play games, learn facts about brain health and track their own moods or behaviours over time. The information collected through Neureka will fuel novel research on how we understand, predict and treat mental health conditions and dementia. Neureka is free to download now from the App Store or Google Play Store. 

MODERATOR

Tara Stewart is a DJ, Podcast Host, Slow Fashion lover and Radio Presenter of the New Music Show on RTE 2FM. When she’s not gracing the national airwaves, Tara can be found DJing at high-profile gigs including top festivals like Electric Picnic, Longitude, Forbidden Fruit or supporting Cher in the 3 Arena, Dublin in 2019. 2020 saw her become the September cover star of Women’s magazine, Stellar Mag for a sustainable fashion special.

Growing up in Australia's outback, Alice Springs, she was born to Irish/ Malaysian /Indian parents. In 2011 Tara decided to move to Europe and the UK to further her career and has become a force to be reckoned with on the creative scene DJing for the likes of Magnum, Diet Coke, Moet Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Bumble, Disney, Zalando to name a few. Her arresting personality and unique sense of style has built her a loyal online following of over 20,000 people and has afforded her the opportunity to collaborate with global brands such as Always, Sprite, Coke, Schuh, Puma, Disney, Carlsberg, Smirnoff, Bacardi, and more.