Are you an IAHIP Accredited or Pre-Accred Associate interested in integrating nature into your therapy practice or taking therapy sessions outside? If so, my highly interactive and practical Spring 2022 courses will be of interest to you.

Course 1: Online Outdoor Psychotherapy CPD Training

When:         Saturday 26th^th March, 2^nd and 9^th April 2022: 08:30am – 2:30pm

Cost:           Price: €300 (15 Hours CPD)

Where:        Delivered Online Via Zoom with Experiential Exercises Outdoors at Home

Places:        Max Number of Participants is 10

Visit JoanneHanrahan.ie or Contact JoannePsychotherapy@gmail.com for Details

This course will help you learn of the background, theoretical underpinnings, and practical implications of seeing clients outdoors. You will gain knowledge of clinical vignettes and explore how you might consider integrating nature more into your practice. It will be held fully online but will be very interactive and include group discussion, breakout rooms, and nature-based exercises in participants’ own gardens.

This Course has now been run 6 times and has had great feedback.  I take participant feedback very seriously and continually look to improve the content and delivery. 

Course Structure:

• This unique course is developed to allow participants to engage in a very interesting and blended learning experience.
• It is designed as a highly interactive small group training which will include periods of outdoor time.
• Participants will engage with natural environments local to them during the course – this may be a garden, local park, country road etc.
• Further outdoor experiences will be encouraged between workshops

Check out my article in the Spring Edition of Inside Out or on the Nature Therapy section of my websitefor some insight into the theory and practice of working outdoors. While the article is more academic than the workshop, it will provide some background into this growing area of practice. 

Course 2: Experiential Outdoor CPD Workshop for Therapists

When:        Sun. 8^th May 2022 :9.30am-5pm

Price:          €120 (6Hrs CPD)

Where:       Delivered In-Person in The Glen, Ennistymon, Co. Clare

Places:       Max number of participants 10

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Join me in exploring your own process outdoors, engaging with the natural world and with other like-minded professionals.  This workshop will compliment another longer CPD training in outdoor therapy or could give you a taster of how it may be to work outdoors prior to considering a further training. If you are already seeing clients outdoors this will provide a space for you to discuss your practice and gain more experience of being a client in the outdoors.  Also, very importantly this will be a day to give yourself time to ‘just be’ in nature.

Course Structure:

• This workshop will be experiential and will be held entirely outdoors in a rich natural space in Ennistymon Co.Clare
• Participant numbers will be limited to enhance the personal experience and processing time.
• The day will include a number of nature-based exercises and reflection.
• Time will be given to peer counselling (dyad work) so that you can experience both being therapist and client outdoors and process that experience in the group.
• The venue site contains a waterfall, meandering river, woodlands with a path and a wilder woodland area. 
• The Falls Hotel is situated which is where we will meet in the morning for outdoor coffee/tea and will have access to toilet facilities etc.
• Participants will be required to wear suitable outdoor clothing and bring sit mat/portable camping chair – more detail will be given on booking.
• This Course has now been run 4 times and has had great feedback.  I take participant feedback very seriously and continually look to improve the content and delivery. 

Training Workshop with Bronagh Starrs

About The Workshop: The adolescent brings his world to the therapy situation and we, as therapists need to collaboratively, with our adolescent clients, create a framework of meaning which supports the process and purpose of therapy. The guiding principle of this collaborative construction is the client’s meaning-making, which promotes discovery of capability, agency, personal power and connectedness with the interpersonal world. Sandspace is a unique approach to working with adolescents, developed by Bronagh Starrs. The sand world can bring healing and insight, offering a dynamic mode of relating which enriches contact process between aspects of self-experience which are often compartmentalised in the adolescent’s developing awareness. The adolescent’s lifespace and contact boundary development become visible, tangible and three-dimensional in the sand. This dynamic way of working also creates additional richness and depth to therapeutic contact.

During the two days, we will explore theoretical, clinical and practical aspects of sand therapy process with adolescents including:

• An introduction to Sandspace

• Initiating Sandspace with adolescent clients
• Gaining practical experience of facilitating Sandspace
• Exploring the healing & transformative potential of Sandspace
• Trauma & Sandspace: creative expression of the unspeakable
• Understanding the richness of symbolic representation for the adolescent

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Dates: Wednesday 30th & Thursday 31st March 2022 Time: 10am - 4pm
Venue: Clonmel Park Hotel, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Fee: €320

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If you would like to book a place on the training programme, please register your interest via email to Bronagh and forward payment via PayPal to confirm your place.

You will require the email address bronaghstarrs@gmail.com to complete the transaction.

CPD certificates (12 points) will be awarded to participants after the training.

About The Presenter: Bronagh Starrs is Programme Director for the MSc Adolescent Psychotherapy in Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre, in partnership with the University of Northampton, UK and Founder & Director of Blackfort Adolescent Gestalt Institute. She maintains a private practice in Omagh, Northern Ireland, as a psychotherapist, clinical
supervisor, writer, presenter and trainer, specialising in working with adolescents.

As well as her work as a parenting consultant with many families, schools and agencies, she is also an experienced therapist working with children, adults and groups. Bronagh is a renowned adolescent development specialist and has considerable experience teaching
and presenting throughout Ireland and internationally on the developmental implication of trauma on the adolescent journey. Her approach to therapeutic intervention with adolescents is both innovative and deeply relational. Her book Adolescent Psychotherapy - A Radical Relational Approach (Routledge, London) has received international acclaim.

Comfortable and private room to rent in the Castleknock area of Dublin 15.

Own private entrance and single use room.  The room has its own toilet and shower and heat and light are included.  There is on street parking and bus/train transport is convient.

Room availability and cost:

• Monday to Friday
• 8am to 4pm    €60 per day
• 4pm to 10pm  €60 per day
• Full day €100

Contact: Gerry on 086 3902229 or email enq@phoenixtherapy.ie for more information.

Starting Tuesday 22nd February, 7pm - 9:30pm

Half day of practice on Sunday 3rd April, 10am - 2pm

Facilitated over zoom by Brigid Nee, an Art Psychotherapist and Mindfulness teacher.

Brigid is accredited with IACP, IACAT and MTAI and has been training in Mindfulness for over 4 years.

Course information:

•    Course is suitable for those with prior meditation experience and those with none.

•    Different forms of mindfulness practice are experienced during the course including sitting meditation, gentle mindful movement and the body scan.

•    As the course is delivered over zoom relatively stable wifi and a private room are needed.

•    A commitment to a daily home practice of around 45 minutes per day is asked during the course.

•    Participants will receive an email handout each week summarising the content and practise instructions, along with recordings of guided meditations.

Aims:

-     Use mindfulness to relate in healthier ways to feelings of anxiety and to better manage stressful situations in both work and home life.

-     Cultivate a sense of curiosity, exploration, kindness and self compassion to whatever we experience.

-     Recognise when self-judgement and striving are present.

-     Build a daily mindfulness meditation practice.

-     Get in touch with a different way of knowing ourselves and the world.

Fee:

€200

Concession rates available for anyone experiencing financial challenges.

For more information please contact Brigid at brigid@mindfulart.ie

Website: www.mindfulart.ie

Instagram: @mindfulart.ie

A fantastic setting in a wonderful Georgian building located in the busy Dublin 2 area.

Rooms are in an existing well-established practice, Fitzwilliam Psychotherapy.

Ideal for accredited psychotherapists and supervisors.

• Choice of well-presented and tastefully decorated rooms, across the top two floors.
• Rentals are on a half-day or full-day basis.
• Own key access and buzzer system in place.
• Therapy couches in rooms.

Rates are €100 full day/€50 half-day. Weekends available.

To arrange viewing, please contact:

Denis on 086 123 2038
or email denis@fitzwilliampsychotherapy.ie

Seven-Day Residential Experiential Workshop

With Members Of

The Fool’s Dance Gestalt Company – Paul Rebillot Group In Ireland

APRIL 18TH – 24TH 2022

Slí An Chroí, Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow

Find out more and apply at

www.foolsdancegestaltcompany.ie

Call Mary: 087 7970804

Further information available here>>

Limited in-person tickets available for this event highlighting the depth and breadth of the grief experience from a variety of perspectives. 

Buy tickets from https://whaletheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873624131/events

Or sign-up on the website www.shapesofgrief.com to get details of the live-stream.

YogaSOMATICS is a contemporary perspective of yoga that is immediate, fluid and experiential. It bridges traditional yoga, modern somatics, meditative techniques and inquiry towards conciousness. YogaSOMATICS encourages sensing and deep listening to make inner contact with oneself and the energetic body. The practice offers spaces of containment and exploration through aware movements, breathing, relaxation, mindfulness, meditation and contact bodywork. It is a return to connect to one’s own bio energy, through slow and subtle movement in a first-person relational experience. It may appeal to those who are new to yoga or as a self-care body practice.

YogaSOMATICS was founded by Ateeka whose work has been inspired by Continuum Movement founder, the late Emily Conrad, Gestalt psychotherapist Ruella Frank, Danish spiritual teachers, Jes Bertelsen and Madhurima Rigtrup and is currently a student of Helen Gamborg, author of the “Invisible Aspects of Healing”, inspired by Bob Moor’s teachings about the subtle body, energy medicine and healing.

The classes will be exploratory and invitational to make inner contact and honour your own natural rhythm. There will be a blend of asanas/gestures, somatic movements, breathing exercises and rest shapes and also invite the general new attitude of non-urgency, inner listening, rest as a beginning phase, pleasure-feeling good, unwinding, developmental movements and self-care.

Previous participants have described the practice as “mind-blowing”, “powerful”, “subtle”, “transcendental” and “a landing space”.

Block 1: Sensing (Booking Closed)

Some aspects which will be explored are awakening the senses and the sensitive body through energetic nervous system resets, awareness of the back field, the skin as a sensing organ, facial massage, self-healing relaxation, breath and subtle movement.

Dates: 11th, 18th, 25th January and 1st and 8th February 2022

Block 2: Deepening

Elements that will be touched are unwinding (the heart of YogaSOMATICS); getting a “felt sense” of soft body in the myofascial tissue, rocking movements as a nervous system reset, developmental movements such as the “push and reach”, and some meditative visualisations and energetic work.

Dates: Tuesday 22nd February, 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd March 2022

Block 3: Rewilding

Touching into the Psoas entity known as the “muscle of the soul” connecting to instinctual wisdom, using music as a nervous system reset, unwinding, guided meditation, grounding practices and Savasana with energetic awareness.

Dates: Tuesday 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th April and 10th May 2022

Investment: €50 per 5-week block. Reduced fee as Deirdre currently in training of 250H YogaSOMATICS programme.

Time: 6-7pm online via Zoom. Recording of each class will be available for a 7-day playback.

Suitability: Suitable for all levels. If you have any injuries/illness or if you are pregnant, please contact Deirdre at livingroomyoga1@gmail.com to discuss in advance of booking. There is no prerequisite required to have attended previous classes/blocks.

CPD: Certs will be provided after each block for 5 hours.

Please visit link below to reserve your place:

https://www.livingroomyoga.ie/book-a-class/p/thesensitivebody

If you have any questions, please contact Deirdre at livingroomyoga1@gmail.com

Bio:

Deirdre Madden is a qualified psychotherapist has been training with Ateeka for the 250H programme of YogaSOMATICS and is continuing to offer classes as part of her training. Deirdre is a qualified yoga teacher in Vinyasa Flow, Yin and Yoga Nidra and has been a practitioner of yoga for over 15 years.

My name is John Lalor. I am an MA student in Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy at IICP, Dublin. I am recruiting participants for my project, and I would be most grateful if you would agree to participate.

This is a quantitative study into the relationship between Self-Compassion (Neff, 2003a,b), Compassion-for-Others, and Mindfulness in fully-accredited therapists and counsellors. I believe it is important to better understand the relationship between these constructs, given what we know about the importance of self-care, and the impact of stress and burnout in our profession.

The questionnaire, hosted on Survey Monkey, is quite brief: it contains two psychometrics (total: 55 questions); you will also be asked some standard demographic questions.

Here is the link>>
the Information Sheet and Consent Form are on the first pages of the questionnaire.

If you would like to contact me, please do not hesitate:

e: johnlalor@protonmail.com

m: 085 7834456