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Selection by Design offers two unique opportunities to become professionally accredited in psychometric testing as 2025 begins! Join us to enhance your assessment skills, and earn the EFPA/British Psychological Society qualifications of Occupational Test User or Forensic Test User.
The Wheel is delighted to share some good news! Training Links, a workforce development funding and support programme, is now open for applications. Since 2005, Training Links has funded the training and upskilling needs of staff, volunteers and board members in the community and voluntary sector.
Interim Chief Medical Officer, Professor Mary Horgan, today announced the results of the Healthy Ireland Survey 2024. Supported by the Department of Health, the annual survey by Ipsos B&A gives an up-to-date picture of the health of the nation, reporting on many health-related lifestyle behaviours.
(Dis)Placed is a Theatre of the Oppressed festival that delves into the complex relationships between people and the land they call home. Through workshops, performances, and a trip to the Battle of the Boyne, this festival examines the theme of “displacement” and belonging.
We have a drop in for young people in Liberty View on a Thursday evening. We are looking for a volunteer who will take part and play an active role in our drop-in program.
From January to June, Irish Hospice Foundation will be running 20 online workshops, covering a range of topics on bereavement and loss, such as “Bereavement in the School Community”, “Working with Adults Facing Death”, and “Children and Loss”.
The Pieta Crisis Helpline offers crisis intervention support to anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts or engaging in self-harm and also supports those bereaved through suicide. Our Therapists will also provide support, information, and psychoeducation for those supporting loved ones in crisis.
There are opportunities to join our team of volunteers as either a HUGG Champion or a HUGG Support Group Facilitator. We provide full training, mentoring support and resources for self-care.
We’re here for you. If you’re experiencing depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety or related mood conditions, or are concerned about a loved one, we can offer you a safe and accepting space to receive support, compassion and guidance. All our support services are offered free of charge.
Age Action’s Getting Started is a free digital literacy programme, helping older people to get online, or use their smart device with confidence. Age Action’s Getting Started is the first competency-based digital training for older people in Ireland.
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).
It can be hard to talk about what is happening to you if you are being abused, but the Women’s Aid National Freephone Helpline is here to help, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Often when women call us for the first time they don’t speak as they may be afraid or ashamed.
Please help send vital food and water, shelter, blankets, essential medical supplies and healthcare. Help us let families in Gaza and Lebanon know they are not forgotten. For the humanity we all share, thank you for sending whatever help you can.
Sign up for a monthly donation and as a bear-sized thank you, Paddington will send a child in your life a postal pack which contains postcards from around the world (and so much more!) every month for 12 months. With each package, they’ll explore a different country with Paddington and learn more about the life of a child who lives there.
JAM Card allows people with an invisible disability to discreetly request ‘Just A Minute’ of patience when they need it. Transport for Ireland Services are JAM Card® friendly! The Jam Card® assists customers using the public transport system to make their experience as stress-free as possible.
Looking for office space for your nonprofit organisation? Carmichael House currently has three desks available in our bright and spacious co-working office space.
We are seeking an energetic & dedicated person with an interest in the values and objectives of our organisation. You will work with the Board and a staff team helping to provide strategic direction to our work.
Suitable for those either working in the helping professions or interested in seeking to develop their awareness of what is involved in training as a counsellor / psychotherapist. QQI 20 credit certificate providing an excellent introduction to the field of counselling & psychotherapy. Fully Online.
This grant scheme is designed to financially assist community groups in actively collaborating with artists and creatives. We encourage ambitious and innovative projects which grow the capacity of individuals and communities and use culture and creativity to create positive social impacts.
This innovative programme is validated by QQI and accredited by IACP, Ireland’s largest professional body. With a seamless transition from theory to practice, graduates of this programme are perfectly placed to pursue an enriching and fulfilling career as a therapist in the helping professions.
The programme consists of four full teaching days, plus a half day tutorial spread out over four full teaching days. Learners have eight months to complete their clinical work and should be practicing therapists upon application. Learners will engage in both theoretical and practical training in CBT.
This course will be of interest to professionals who work in an integrative manner. It will be of particular interest to counsellors, psychotherapists, guidance counsellors, psychologists, healthcare professionals, probation officers, social services personnel, managers, and all who supervise the work of others in the helping professions.
Our two-year Higher Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Studies is now accepting applications for the September 2025 intake. This innovative programme is subject to validation by QQI. Designed in the style of a conversion or bridging programme, this two-year training prepares learners to enter a professional practice master.
A pluralistic perspective is an integrative approach to Counselling and Psychotherapy that embraces and considers multiple causes and responses to psychological distress. The aim of the programme is to equip practitioners with an up to date, cutting edge training to meet the needs of contemporary society.
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