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Suicide or Survive: Free Wellness Workshop in Trim

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.

Trim, Co Meath

Unlocking the Magical Power of Acceptance - Free Zoom Webinar

Being Present in the Future or Absent in the Past where Relationships and Resolving Conflict are concerned. In this free Zoom Webinar we shall be looking specifically at the Magic Power of Acceptance. For it truly is a transformative, game changing magic power in and of itself in the truest meaning of the word magic.

Online

Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss (Training) – certified by The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath and Death

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.

Portobello, Dublin 8

TASC: Financial Resilience Training for Frontline Charity Staff & Volunteers

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.

Online

PPI Ignite Network @ University of Galway: National PPI Festival Fund 2025

The overarching goal of this seed funding is to offer supports of €1000 to assist University of Galway staff or students, all patient & community organisations and individual PPI contributors to host a National PPI Festival event in October that aligns with the festival’s aims.

Nationwide

IICP College: Managing oneself in Clinical Practice - Professionalism, Boundaries, and Referral in Psychotherapy Setting

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.

Online

IICP College: Introduction to LGBT+ Culture and Client needs in Psychotherapy

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.

Dublin 24

IICP College: Introduction to Choice Theory

This workshop provides participants with a foundational understanding of Choice Theory, exploring its origins, core concepts, and practical applications across personal and professional contexts.

Dublin 24

IICP College: Getting out of the client’s way

“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.

Dublin 24

IICP College: Counselling & Psychotherapy Skills Masterclass

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.

Dublin 24

IICP College: CBT for the Anxious Mind

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.

Online

IICP College: Working with Alcohol and Substance Misuse - 2 Day Workshop

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.

Online via Zoom

Bat Conservation Ireland: Gardening for Bats Workshops

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!

Co Clare, Co Leitrim, Waterford City & Co Meath

Dublin Simon Community: Home Run 2025

Join us for our 42nd annual Home Run. Walk, jog, run, hop or dance the 5K loop though the scenic Phoenix Park – all to raise vital funds for our life-saving services, and help end homelessness. This year, we are asking everyone to treat the entry fee as just the beginning.

Dublin

Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Fun Run

Every Step Counts! Get ready for a fun-filled 5K and join us for the SVP Fun Run. Whether you're in the park with us or doing 5K your own way, every step you take helps us support those who need it most. Bring your family, friends, and four-legged companions. Dogs are more than welcome!

Limerick / Nationwide

Game Changer Programme

Game Changer is a new programme that seeks to challenge the social and cultural norms and behaviours that contribute to Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. These norms and behaviours can range from catcalling, harassment and victim-blaming, to sharing of pornography, intimate image abuse, coercive control and sexual exploitation and violence.

Nationwide

Barnardos Cost of Living 2025 Report

For the past four years Barnardos has been monitoring the impact of cost of living increases on families and children detailing the number of families who are cutting back and going without essentials, the impact it is having on their day to day lives and general quality of life and the worries they have for the future.

Nationwide

TechStorm Consulting Ltd: Free 1 Day Salesforce Health check for Salesforce CRM customers

Free 1 Day Health check services., for existing Salesforce charity users. During the Health check, we will review your business processes and provide recommendations on how your organisation will see the benefits in revenue generation, leads nurturing (new members onboarding), campaigns for both outbound and inbounds etc.

Nationwide

Parentline: Helpline Volunteer

Full training and support will be provided. Volunteering with Parentline requires an ability to listen, willingness to learn, commitment to a three hour weekly shift & ongoing training.

Nationwide

HUGG: Company Secretary

HUGG is seeking a Company Secretary. A company secretary typically provides legal and administrative support and guidance to the board of trustees.

Nationwide / Online

Invitation to apply for CFI Innovate (formerly CFI at Home) funding

Safefood is inviting applications for funding for its Community Food Initiatives (CFI) Innovate Funding. The Community Food Initiatives programme aims to empower people in low-income communities to make healthier food choices.

Nationwide

Transport for Ireland: Wheelchair Priority Campaign

Transport for Ireland (TFI), partnered with The Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) and Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind (IGDB), have created a national campaign to raise awareness to allow wheelchair users to board first and priority to use the designated wheelchair space.

Nationwide