Toward a healthier, more connected and equitable world

Our Medicine Consulting

Our Medicine Consulting is a leading expert in designing and implementing storytelling interventions for health systems – including hospitals, foundations, departments of public health, non profits, community health centers, and national departments of public health. I work with health organizations to embed a culture of storytelling, humanize data, and highlight community solutions to national health equity disparities.

Our Medicine Online Community

Our Medicine is a weekly exploration of love, storytelling, and rematriation. The focus is on Indigenous community building, personal and collective medicine, and a collection of beliefs grounded in love and togetherness as a means of surviving and thriving. Love, as we define it, is medicine. This writing is an exploration of the human tapestry of wisdom rooted in collective care.

Muungas Doula Services

​​Birth & postpartum are ceremonies, and I founded Muungas Doula Services as a commitment to maintaining the personal, cultural, and community practices that surround birth and protect the health of every birthing person and child. You deserve to make the choices that best serve your body and family, and I am here to support that decision making.

CHUNK OF THE MOON ARTIST RESIDENCY

CHUNK OF THE MOON ARTIST RESIDENCY

Chunk Of The Moon is an artist residency hosted the land I steward in Central Vermont. We must have space, time, and peace to imagine and create a more just world for all!

I am available for facilitation, organizational consultancy, speaking engagements, panel discussions, and other collaborative endeavors that move us in the direction of the world we bravely imagine can be true.

  • Testimonials

    To many in this modern world, data means statistically significant numbers and is seen as the only valid way to document reality. Murphy Barney understands how bereft of truth and usefulness this definition really is, especially for historically marginalized people, small groups, and rural communities. Murphy is an ally and a partner in bringing these voices to the table in ways that honor their traditions and reduce the harm that can be done with extractive data collection approaches. She is a pleasure to work with – always teaching, always advocating, and always drawing me closer to a true understanding of what health equity should look like in our community.

    -Alice Ely, Executive Director , Public Health Council of the Upper Valley

  • Testimonials

    When we set out to create a new training program for health professionals, we knew we needed the stories of people with lived experience to sit at the heart of that project. 

    In a time when those most harmed in our communities are often the ones most researched, questioned and extracted from to produce solutions, we chose to work with Murphy Barney to ensure that the gathering of those stories would serve as much as a gift to the people who shared them, as it would to the people who will learn and benefit from their telling.

    Murphy was intentional and timely with project planning and correspondence. She entered every room with clarity, joy and a deep understanding of the purpose of our time together. And she delivered a clever, well organized, and engaging learning tool that pulses with the voices of our project’s participants.

    I cannot recommend her more highly and I look forward to working with her again.

    - Kiona Heath, Director of Trauma Informed Care, Vermont Network