Mind contemplative neuroscience training for psychotherapists

As more and more therapists and mental health professionals learn about interpersonal neurobiology and contemplative practices, there is an increasing desire to translate theoretical and philosophical principles into practical applications for use with clients.  

A broad range of psychological and interpersonal issues will be addressed, including attachment, emotion, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, challenging presentations, resilience, and interventions that offer a uniquely holistic, compassionate and integrative approach to mental health and wellbeing.

Mind will focus on the work of Richard Davidson, Allan Schore, Louis Cozolino, Janina Fisher, Susan Johnson, Richard C. Schwartz, Stephen Porges, Daniel Amen, Sara Lazar, Daniel Siegel, Daniel Stern, Mark Epstein, Pat Ogden, Rich Hanson, Peter Levine, Tara Brach, Babette Rothschild and Shauna Shapiro.

Mondays evening monthly online meetings from 5pm to 6.30pm.

Dates: (24 January, 21 February, 21 March, 25 April, 23 May, 27 June, 25 July, 29 August, 26 September, 24 October, 28 November, 19 December 2022)

In-person training:  10am to 5pm on Saturday, 22 May and 22 October 2022, Ashling Hotel, Dublin.

Cost: €195 including 18 hours online training, 12 hours in-person training, certificate, notes, resources. 

Facilitator:  Gerry Cunningham, MIAHIP, MIACP

For more information and Booking here>>

info@mindfulnessclinic.ie 

Telephone: 087-7989 301

DIPLOMA IN SUPERVISION: Relational Model FEBRUARY 2022 to MAY 2023

The core theoretical model on this course is a Gestalt Relational Model. Participants will be introduced to the various tasks of Supervision in a theoretical and experiential manner. Core Gestalt concepts such as, mindful awareness in the here and now, the Co-Creation of relationship and the Relational Field will be elaborated on and Participants will have time to practice.

The course is experiential and is run over two years.

• February 2022 - May 2022 (4x2 day blocks)
• January 2023 - May 2023 (5x2 day blocks )

It is suitable for Counsellors and Psychotherapists who are accredited for four years or more.

The course is also suitable for other helping professionals who wish to add a relational Process model of Supervision to their way of working.

Facilitators: Anne Burke, Eileen Noonan

Max number of participants: 12

For more detailed information and cost of the course visit www.gestalt.ie / 01-6619231

Director: Claire Counihan

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.

YogaSOMATICS is a contemporary blend of ancient yoga and modern somatics. It is an experiential bodywork practice using 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 is a non-competitive, non-linear practice which has been designed to align with one’s own natural rhythm, honouring each individual to make contact with your own embodied wisdom; and may appeal to those who are new to yoga.

Term 4: Bio Movements, Expansion and Deepening is the last part of this online programme for 2021. Some pieces we will touch into will be YogaSOMATICS Restorative Gestures, exploring expansion, space, opening up and the “Psoas” the muscle of the soul.

Previous participants have described the practice as “powerful”, “transcendent,“an exploratory space” and “a sensitive body practice”.

Date/Time: Tuesday 9th November from 6-7pm online, for 5 consecutive weeks. Recording of each class will be available for a 7-day playback.

Investment: €45 per term. Reduced fee as Deirdre currently in training of 250H YogaSOMATICS course.

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

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.

Please visit link below to reserve your place:

https://www.livingroomyoga.ie/book-a-class/p/yogasomatics-experiential-online-programme

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 past year and is now offering YogaSOMATICS 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.

Psychosexual Therapy Ireland

We’re now in our sixth year of running these workshops. We’ve been so happy that our course has met with such a welcome and that our transition to working online this year proved to be such fun. Thanks to our many former students!

Our aim is to encourage our students to work more confidently with sex and gender issues, in a fun and experiential way.

We’re delighted to announce the dates for our forthcoming season in the new year. They are open to mental health professionals only, as clinical material is shared.

We are staying on Zoom for the time being. Saturday mornings, 9.30am till 1pm with two fifteen minute breaks. We issue CPD certificates after each workshop.

• Working with Sexuality Issues: 15th January 2022
• Working with Male Sexuality Issues: 5th February 2022
• Working with Female Sexuality Issues: 5th March 2022
• Working with Kink, Polyamory etc: 26th March 2022
• Working with Porn Issues: 23rd April 2022
• Working with Couples: 21st May 2022

It's possible to book four workshops for €400 using the discount code 4ormore. The fee for attending one workshop on its own is €120.

See https://psychosexualtherapyireland.eventbrite.com/ for booking details.

Before making up your mind, please see the lovely feedback our students have given us here: https://psychosexualtherapy.ie/feedback/

Hope to see you at one or more of our workshops!

Dermod Moore, Sharon Travers and Trish Murphy

psychosexualtherapy.ie

Brainspotting Phase 1 Training
with Monika Gos, CPsychol,

International Brainspotting Trainer

When: 26th - 28th November 2021 Where: Online (Zoom) Cost: £330 CPD: 24 hours

Ruairí Osborne, MIAHIP from www.online-counselling.ie is delighted to welcome Monika Gos, CPsychol. to Ireland, where she will be offering a training in Brainspotting (Phase 1).

Tap into the brain’s inherent capacity for self-reorganisation and self-regulation.

This training will teach you how to create the optimal environment for deep and lasting healing. It will enable therapists to make a breakthrough into another level of performance and understanding.

Brainspotting is a body-brain based relational therapy, which was discovered by the developer of Natural Flow EMDR, Dr David Grand in 2003. This therapeutic approach is based on the latest developments in neuroscience. It engages the brain’s self-healing capacity to achieve fast and lasting results.

Brainspotting uses a relevant eye position and focused mindfulness to locate, and with laser-like precision, access dissociated traumatic memories stored in the subcortical brain.

Endorsed by Dr Gabor Mate, Bessel van der Kolk, MD and Norman Doidge, MD, Brainspotting engages structures involved in self-regulation. Therefore, it can quickly release symptoms of trauma, bringing relief from the experience of psychological and physical pain.

Brief video interview with Monika Gos here: https://youtu.be/YvQRStX_6Ss

For more information visit us at: www.brainspottingireland.com

Sandspace with Adolescents

The adolescent brings his or her world to the therapy situation and we, as therapists attempt 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 Gestalt approach to working with adolescents which supports 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 within the Sandspace. This dynamic way of working also creates additional richness and depth to therapeutic contact.

During the training, we will explore theoretical, clinical and practical aspects of Sandspace with adolescents including:

• An introduction to Sandspace

• Initiating Sandspace with adolescent clients

• Gaining practical experience of creating & facilitating Sandspace

• Exploring the healing & transformative potential of Sandspace

• Trauma & Sandspace: making meaning of the unspeakable

• Understanding the richness of symbolic representation for the adolescent

Date: Monday 08 November 2021

Venue: Blackfort Therapy Centre, Omagh

Fee: £160

CPD Points: 6

To book a place on the workshop, please contact Bronagh directly: bronaghstarrs@gmail.com

About The Presenter:

Bronagh Starrs is Programme Director for the MSc Adolescent Psychotherapy in Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre in partnership with University of Northampton and Founder & Director of Blackfort Adolescent Gestalt Institute. She maintains a private practice in Omagh, Northern Ireland, as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, writer and trainer, specialising in working with adolescents, emerging adults and their families. Bronagh is an adolescent development specialist and has considerable experience as a trainer in adolescent development and therapy throughout Ireland. She also teaches and presents internationally on the developmental implication of trauma on the adolescent journey. Her recent publication Adolescent Psychotherapy - A Radical Relational Approach (Routledge, London) has received international acclaim.

Mental Health Reform would like to invite you to the launch of Mental Health Reform’s Cultural Competency Toolkit; a practical guide for mental health professionals, services and staff, on working with ethnic minorities in Ireland.

The event takes place on 27th October

from 10am - 11.30am
via Zoom.

The ethnic minority community in Ireland comes from a range of cultures and backgrounds, incorporating a rich tapestry of experience, skills, perspectives, and creativity. Research demonstrates a higher incidence of mental health challenges amongst people from this community. In response to this need, through a project supported by the HSE and the Sláintecare Integration Fund, the Cultural Competency Toolkit was developed. The Toolkit is structured around the importance of providing culturally sensitive mental health services.

This event aims to raise awareness of the challenges that ethnic minority groups face in accessing appropriate mental health supports. Speakers will share practical information, resources and guidance, to help community mental health teams to implement the Toolkit in their workplace practice.

Speakers include:

• Dr. Naomi Masheti - Programme Coordinator, Nano Nagle Place and Project Steering Group Member
• Dr. Charles Willie - Former CEO, Diverse Cymru and author of the Cultural Competency Toolkit
• Dr. Pauline Moloney - Senior Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Cabra Community Mental Health Team
• Audry Deane - Policy and Advocacy Manager, Mental Health Reform
  
  
• Members of ethnic minority communities with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

To register, click here>> 

We look forward to your participation.

In solidarity and compassion,

Fiona Coyle

An exciting initiative is taking place at:

Soearth Projects Kill, Co.Kildare.

Heidi Morrison, IACAT accredited Art Psychotherapist is facilitating an Art Therapy Group specifically aimed for Psychotherapists and related fields.

This closed group commencing the 1st of November 2021 (running weekly for 6 weeks) facilitates peer reflection and support for practitioners. Participants working within various modalities can engage and experience the therapeutic benefits found in Art Therapy.

Soearth’s natural and beautiful studio space is a perfect place to relax, engage and creatively process emerging themes. Participants don’t need to feel good at art. Simple exercises will be introduced throughout the course.

For more information visit soearthprojects.com or contact Heidi on info@soearthprojects.com

Tel: 087 0605553

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.

YogaSOMATICS is a contemporary blend of ancient yoga and modern somatics. It is an experiential bodywork practice using 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 is a non-competitive, non-linear practice which has been designed to align with one’s own natural rhythm, honouring each individual to make contact with your own embodied wisdom; and may appeal to those who are new to yoga.

Term 4: Bio Movements, Expansion and Deepening is the last part of this online programme for 2021. Some pieces we will touch into will be YogaSOMATICS Restorative Gestures, exploring expansion, space, opening up and the “Psoas” the muscle of the soul.

Previous participants have described the practice as “powerful”, “transcendent, “an exploratory space” and “a sensitive body practice”.

Date/Time: Tuesday 9th November from 6-7pm online, for 5 consecutive weeks. Recording of each class will be available for a 7-day playback.

Investment: €45 per term. Reduced fee as Deirdre currently in training of 250H YogaSOMATICS course.

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

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.

Please visit link below to reserve your place:

https://www.livingroomyoga.ie/book-a-class/p/yogasomatics-experiential-online-programme

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 past year and is now offering YogaSOMATICS 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.

Alcohol Action Ireland is pleased to launch ‘End the Silence’ – a series of events and activities from 18 – 26 October 2021 to raise awareness of the issues arising from growing up with alcohol harm in the home.

We know that at least 200,000 children in Ireland are currently living with the trauma of parental problem alcohol use and a further 400,000 adults are living with its legacy, sometimes playing out with difficulties with emotional, mental and physical health. Yet despite these large numbers this Adverse Childhood Experience remains a deeply hidden aspect of Ireland’s relationship with alcohol. There are many reasons for this including family dynamics, shame and the wider societal conflict between our image of Ireland as a country which identifies strongly with drinking yet knows there is a huge price to pay for our alcohol use.

Our Silent Voices initiative aims to end this silence. This month starting Monday 18th October we are delighted to partner with other organisations and individuals by looking at the types of supports and interventions which are needed from the home to the classroom and for professionals working in this area.

Podcasts

'An insight into the trauma and complex impact of living with parental problem alcohol use.'

This two-part podcast features Marion Rackard IAHIP, ACI co-founder of Silent Voices interviewing Dr.Stephanie Brown, licensed psychologist, researcher and author of Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective.

The podcasts are available at Alcohol Action Ireland’s Alcohol Files.

The events include:

• 18 October, Webinar Online 19.00 – 21.00

Parental Problem Alcohol Use: Living and coping with a legacy of trauma

Stephanie Brown, PhD. Licensed psychologist, author, researcher, consultant and lecturer in the field of addiction

Public talk followed by panel discussion with the Founding Voices of Silent Voices.

Book your place at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/184910491257

• 21 October, film screening The Ark, 15.30 – 16.30

A screening of Annika Cassidy’s film ‘Peel’

followed by discussion with the film maker hosted by one of the Founding Voices of Silent Voices.

Book your place at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/185587215357

• 26 October,Online 19.00 – 21.00

Where the light enters: hope and healing through trauma informed education.

An afternoon/evening of conversation, learning and reflecting on education, trauma-informed practice, relationships and compassion.

Keynote speaker Gabor Maté

Online event with Maynooth University for those working in education.

Book your place at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/where-the-light-enters-hope-and-healing-through-trauma-informed-education-tickets-156217403459?aff=ebdssbeac

As well as the events listed we will be sharing stories online of those with lived experience – a very generous act which powerfully illustrates many of the issues and point towards the kinds of interventions which could help. We very much appreciate these contributions. Overwhelmingly these Shared Voices say that they want to End the Silence.

To help spread the word, we have created a communications toolkit>> designed to encourage the wider conversation. Our toolkit includes videos, infographics, social media images, podcasts and other content and, is available on our website.

We encourage you to share this within your networks and to use it throughout October and beyond.

Please join us and help #EndTheSilence

Marion Rackard IAHIP

Dr Sheila Gilheany, CEO Alcohol Action Ireland