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Attending a Wellness Workshop is a great opportunity for you to take time out and learn a wide range of simple practical and effective tools and tips that can be used in your everyday life to improve your own wellness. These workshops aim to help you understand and take charge of your own mental health.
The DAVINA project provides unique training on the complexities and the inextricable link between substance use and domestic abuse. Our training provides you with the DAVINA Model: A Trauma Informed Best Practice Response To Women Using Substances and Subjected to Domestic Abuse.
Join us for this certified training from Postnatal Bereavement Doula, Trauma-informed Yoga teacher and Massage Therapist Jane Xavier. You will learn: Companioning: Learn how to hold space for loss. Support Networks: Identify and strengthen supports available. Healing Power of Rituals: Reflect on how rituals can support a bereaved person self-care Practices.
Free online training designed to equip frontline charity staff & volunteers in Ireland with the necessary skills to navigate financial challenges. Learn how to support your beneficiaries in managing their finances and strengthening financial resilience in their families and communities.
This workshop offers a practical and reflective exploration of how psychotherapists, particularly those in training or early in their careers, can navigate the realities of working within a clinical setting. It addresses professional identity, managing interpersonal dynamics with colleagues and managers, and recognising when to refer a client on.
Current estimates place the LGBT+ population of Ireland between 4%-10%, and it is said that LGBT+ clients are more likely to engage in therapy (McLeod, 2013; McCann & Sharek, 2014). Therefore, it is likely as therapists we will eventually find ourselves working with a client from the LGBT+ community.
This workshop provides participants with a foundational understanding of Choice Theory, exploring its origins, core concepts, and practical applications across personal and professional contexts.
“Getting Out of the Client’s Way” is a one-day workshop for trainee and accredited psychotherapists. It helps participants become more aware of how they may unintentionally step into the client’s process. Using reflection, theory, group discussion, creativity, the Seven-Eyed Model, and Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR), the workshop supports deeper self-awareness and presence in client work.
This one-day interactive workshop offers participants the opportunity to engage in practice of advanced counselling skills and will consist of both lecture-led and peer practice sessions. It will appeal to experienced practitioners looking to refresh their skills as well as those from other disciplines who already have core counselling skills and are looking to gain more advanced techniques to complement their work.
This practical and engaging workshop is designed to increase participants’ understanding of the CBT perspective on Anxiety and how to support clients to better manage their anxiety using CBT principles.
To introduce practicing non-drug specialist counsellors and psychotherapist to the broad theories and practices surrounding in current drug and alcohol interventions. Engendering a deeper understanding and enhancing ability to assess and support client and recovery.
Join Bat Conservation on one of these practical, evening workshops to learn what Irish bats need from the landscape. You will pot up locally sourced native cuttings and seeds to take home. We will discuss wildlife and bat friendly gardening techniques and enjoy a bat walk on site after dark!
Selection by Design offers two exceptional opportunities to become accredited in psychometric testing this September! Reserve you place now to enhance your professional client assessment skills, and earn the EFPA/British Psychological Society qualifications of Occupational Test User or Forensic Test User.
The aim of this programme is to provide unemployed Early School Leavers, aged between 16 to 21, with educational, practical and personal skills to maximise their independence at home, in the community and in the world of work. There is no charge to participate on this course however learners must be between the ages of 16 to 21.
The aim of this programme is to provide unemployed Early School Leavers, aged between 16 to 21, with educational, practical and personal skills to maximise their independence at home, in the community and in the world of work. There is no charge to participate on this course however learners must be between the ages of 16 to 21.
Brahma Kumaris Ireland offers an education in human, moral and spiritual values. To meet the challenge of change, it initiates dialogue and presents a fresh vision of the future. It recognises the intrinsic goodness of all human beings and teaches meditation to help each one rediscover their inner resources and strengths.
This learner-centred course seeks to assist people, entering or re-entering the workforce, to develop the skills to seek employment in the Culture and Heritage industry and/or progress to Further Education after the course. Combines theory with practical work experience.
Become a CBC-Informed Educator, FREE Pilot Training Opportunity - through evidence-based, trauma-informed training, we equip educators with the tools to better support students facing stress, emotional dysregulation, and behavioural challenges.
These courses will be of interest to a wide range of practitioners, paid or voluntary, involved in various roles in Community and Voluntary groups, social service agencies, public or local authority (e.g. education, youth and community work, social work, childcare, healthcare, housing, inter-agency work etc.).
This programme is for anyone curious about how Gestalt principles can support meaningful change in both personal and professional life. Whether you're seeking deeper self-understanding, more fulfilling relationships, or exploring the potential for future psychotherapy training, this is a powerful place to begin.
The Substance Use Issues & Community Work Course 2025 / 26 is designed to promote good practice among those who work in a paid or voluntary capacity with young people and communities who are affected by various issues. The course will be run over a one year academic period on a Tuesday evening from September to March (20 weeks).
The MA provides students with the opportunity to develop skills-sets that are in high demand. The course equips students with the advanced skills needed to design, implement and assess effective social interventions that make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and communities.
Fusion Training offer QQI certified programmes in Facilitation, Train the Trainer, Conflict Management and Wellbeing & Flourishing. They also offer bespoke training. Courses are delivered by Gerard Fitzpatrick, author of the acclaimed books Crossing the Threshold (Fusion Press, 2020) and Effective Group Leadership (Orpen Press, 2016).
If you are bereaved by suicide, whether recently or many years ago, HUGG warmly invite you to attend a FREE creative workshop on Saturday August 30th 10.45am to 1pm, Castletroy Park Hotel. We want to create a HUGG memorial quilt, made up of hand-crafted individual fabric squares; each unique square honouring our loved ones who died by suicide.
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