Rev. Melanie O'Driscoll

Psycho-Spiritual Training & Healing
Interfaith Minister Training – OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation, 2020-2022
Funeral Celebrancy – Lorraine, Irish Institute of Celebrants IIOC, 2020
Mary Magdalen Vision Quests – Irini Hara, 2020 & 2021
The Mary Magdalene School – Petra & Anna, 2021
Rahanni Celestial Healing – Mary O’Halloran, 2020
Light Language, Card Readings - Marlene Cronin, 2020
Shamanic Journey Work – Barbara Hess, 2019 & 2020
School of Modern Soul Science – Andrew Camargo, 2019
Personal Inquiries in this area:
3 Year Nichiren Buddhism Chanting Practice - Received Gohonzon from SGI in 2019
Christian Mysticism of Beauty & Love
Guided Visualization Meditations
Light Language Channeling
Active Imagination Practice
Ancestral Lineage Healing
Intensive Womb Healing
Regular Yoga Practice
Ceremonial Inquiries
Oracle Card Reading
Sound Bowl Healing
Drum Journeys
Art Therapy
 

Animals, Nature & the Environmentalism
Zoology BcS - University College Cork, 2016
Founded the Green Step Podcast & Community Group, 2018 - Present
Fota Wildlife Park Education Department, 2019
Decoloniality in an Irish Context – Jimmy Billings, Tuiscint na Talún, 2021
Personal Inquiries in this field:
Time with beloved pets including dogs, horse, rats, cats and fish
Horse-riding for 19 years
Regular sea swimming
Wild food foraging
Being in nature
 

Love, Relating & Peace Building
Non-Violent Communication 8 Week Training – Marta Fabregat, Green Spiral, 2020
Restorative Practise – Orla & Nicola, Tallaght Childhood Development Institute, 2021
Personal Inquiries in this realm:
Healing from emotionally abusive relationships
Healing from my parent’s divorce & family traumas
Healing from experiences of slut shaming
Closing ceremonies to end relationships
Healing relationship with my sexuality
Exploring tantric practice
Exploring BDSM & kink
Exploring polyamory
 

Social Entrepreneurship
Start Your Own Business Course – Local Enterprise Office 2019
Social Entrepreneurship Training – Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, 2020
Sustainable Development Goals Advocate Training – Development Perspectives 2020
Business Weaving – Jackie Gowran, 2020
Personal Inquiries:
Reinventing Organisations
Abundance manifestation
Doughnut Economics
Sacred Economics
Money Mindset

Women’s Empowerment & Mary Magdalen
The Woman Who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Creative Fire – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Warming the Stone Child – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
If Women Rose Rooted – Dr. Sharon Blackie
Light on Fire: Awakening to Divine Love – Aedamar Kirrane
The Way of the Rose – Perdita Finn & Clark Strand
The Woman and the Alabaster Jar – Margaret Starbird*
The Magdalen Manuscript – Tom Kenyon and Jodi Sion*
The Meaning of Mary Magdalene – Cynthia Bourgeault
Anna Grandmother of Jesus – Claire Heartsong
Gospel of Mary Magdalen
Pussy: A Reclaimation – Regena Thomashauer*
The Sacred Prostitute – Nancy Qualls-Corbet
Existential Kink – Carloyn Elliott
The Book of Love – Kathleen McGowan
An Inturrupted Life: The Dairy and Letters of Etty Hillisum 1941-1943
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
 

Relationships & Sacred Sex
The Heart of Tantric Sex – Diana Richardson
Kedesha – Ohad Pele Ezrahi
Dear Lover – David Deida
The Way of the Superior Man – David Deida*
Living Non-Violent Communication – Marshal Rosenberg*
The Spirit of Intimacy – Sobonfu Somé*
Polysecure – Jessica Fern*
 

Religious Texts
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin*
God is Not One - Stephen Prothero*

The Religion of Tomorrow - Ken Wilbur*
A Youthful Diary – Daisaku Ikeda*
A Course In Miracles*
The Bible*
 

Cultural Analysis
The Myth Gap – Alex Evans
Climate Justice – Mary Robinson
Living Resiliently In the Dark Night of the Globe – Andrew Harvey & Caroline Baker
Active Hope – Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone*
The Converging World – John Pontin
Turn this World Inside Out – Nora Samaran
Free Women Free Men – Camille Paglia
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Book of Queer Prophets - a collection of essays curated by Ruth Hunt
 

Decolonial Perspectives & Ancestral Healing
It Didn’t Start with You – Mark Wolynn
The Spirit of Water – Malidome Somé
The Gift of Shamanism – Itzhak Beery
Sand Talk – Tyson Yunkaporta*
Spell of the Sensuous – David Abram*
 

Death & Grief
Natural Burial Ground Handbook and Collection of Essays
Power: Ritual and Community – Malidome Somé
A Short History of Falling – Joe Hammond
The Wild Edge of Sorrow – Francis Weller*
The Art of Death Midwifery – Rev. Joellyn St. Pierre*

Social Enterprise
Reinventing Organisations - Frederic Laloux*
Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth*
Sacred Economics - Charles Eisenstein*

* The asterisk indicates that I am still reading this book or/and that I use it as a reference point when needed.

Irish Examiner 2022 25 small steps we can all take to a greener 2022

Mic 2022 Environmental Activism Can do Wonders for your Mental Health
Green Campus 2022 Podcast on Self Care is Climate Care
Irish Examiner 2021 Weight of the world: how climate activists handle anxiety and distress

University College Cork 2021 Self Care is Climate Care - Ecogrief Workshop
The Green Step 2021 Green City Proposal for Cork City Development Plan
The Green Step 2021 Public Consultation on the Environmental Assessment of the Draft Agri-Food Strategy to 2030
Irish Examiner 2020 Entrepreneurs stepping up to the plate with solutions to social problems.
Echo Live 2020 Cork woman helps people to cope with ‘EcoGrief’
Development Perspectives 2020 SDG Advocate 2020
MTU 2019 My Town, My Plan