After more than 13 years of lecturing in Existentialism, and helping clients and supervisees navigate these profound and essential topics, I launched some discussion groups last year during the COVID pandemic to provide a space to delve deeper into Life’s crucial questions. I am delighted to say their success has given birth to two more expanded groups, commencing this February 2022. 

• A.    Guided Conversations in Existentialism (for anyone, from all walks of life).

Are you looking for a space where you can be part of a structured conversation about life and existential issues? Perhaps you are new to existential ideas or already have some knowledge and would like a deeper understanding of the concepts.

This is a facilitated group where members are invited to reflect on a specific existential issue e.g. Meaning, Freedom, Death, etc and the facilitator will help guide the members in their exploration and understanding of the subject matter. This group approach will heighten people’s understanding of their position in life and ideally help clarify what it means for them to truly live.

• B.     The Examined Life Discussion Group (specifically for Professionals in the Caring Fields).

Working in the caring fields can be a double-edged sword. There is a lot of job satisfaction but it is not uncommon that our own care, and our shadow material (both healthy and unhealthy), can be left to the side.
This is a unique, private, closed group and requires a certain degree of emotional maturity. The process involves a free flow of thought and consciousness and the benefit of these groups comes from being-with-others in a space of honest inquiry with a willingness to discuss the challenges and thrills of an examined life. While the facilitator takes responsibility for practical organisation and maintaining ethical group processes, they do not lead or direct. They join as a fellow traveller in the exploration and pursuit of meaningful life experiences and self-understanding. 

Existential inquiry supports curiosity, openness, and truth. Existential thought is based upon a belief that all people experience certain conflicts in life, by the very fact of being human; being alive. These ‘givens’ include (but are not limited to) death, freedom, isolation, and meaning. Inevitability, we will all confront these existential givens at some point in life.

For further information or to book a place on a group, please go to https://allisonjoyner.ie/group-work/  

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions:  Tel: 087 927 6790. 

Email:  allisonjoynertherapy@gmail.com

Family Constellations Online Training and Group Work

This Spring, Brendan and Eileen O’Brien of Family Constellations Ireland are delighted to offer

●       Online Personal Development Constellations Group

●       Constellation Facilitation Practice Online

●       Online Family Constellations Workshops

●       Workshops for those bereaved/affected by Suicide in their Family (Free)

All our workshops/groups/training  fulfill conditions for CPD with IACP and IAHIP and may be accepted by other professional certifying bodies.

Full details here: https://www.familyconstellationsireland.com/

Online Personal Development Constellations Group

The group will provide a safe space for ongoing reflection, support and personal growth. Using a family constellations lens, each participant will have the opportunity, over the course of the eight weeks to do a constellation. There will also be space for supporting one another on our internal journey. Over time, we have experienced this as a journey home to ourselves.

This short course (30 hours) is designed to help participants:

●       manage personal and professional relationships

●       set healthy boundaries

●       come to terms with difficult life experiences

●       deal with grief and loss

●       support themselves in family life

●       be free of entanglements from the past

●       lead their own lives in their time.

Starts Sunday 20th Feb with one full day, then for 8 Wednesday mornings, from 9:30am to 12:30pm.

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Constellation Facilitation Practice Online

This 36 hour course is designed for those who have completed a Core Training in Family Constellations, have some experience in applying the concepts in their individual practice and would like to start facilitating full constellations.

Building on the skills acquired in your basic training, this course will allow each participant the opportunity to facilitate a full constellation over the course of the training, in a supported way. There will be opportunities to discuss and learn from other group members. We will examine the challenges that may arise and discuss strategies that can be used to deal with these challenges. Depending on the needs of the group, we will offer opportunities for reflection, personal development, small group work, and constellation practice in a safe and supervised setting.

The core emphasis will be on supporting participants to learn by doing. Participants will be supported by Brendan and Eileen as they work with their peers as part of a group learning process. Working in this way offers us the opportunity to learn from each other as we share our skills and experience. Each of us has our own gifts.

 

Requirements:

We expect that participants should have:

- completed a core training in Family Constellations that includes elements of Theory and Practice

- some other experience of using a Family Constellation Lens in individual practice or in a one-to-one setting

- sufficient personal and professional supports

Starts 19th February then Wednesday evenings from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Full day scheduled for 10th April.

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Online Family Constellations Workshops

Two-day online workshops where each participant will have the opportunity to explore an issue or concern that is having an impact on their family life.

February 5th and 6th, March 10th and 11th

More information: https://www.familyconstellationsireland.com/constellationworkshopsonline

January 22-April 10th Saturdays* 9-11am live on zoom, 

"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens..." Rilke

Tending Our Futures –blends thematic modules on Teachable with nine live sessions on Saturday mornings. This course offers a guided journey to support participants reflection, exploration and recalibration. It will appeal to those seeking a deep, textured context in which to tend their own lives in fresh ways.

Attending to Presence, Integration and Emergence, we emphasize the value of balancing our care of past, present and future. This enables a beautiful relation to time, wherein we include the wide span of our lives and support our unique ripening.

Each week is focused on a specific theme, which is explored in a Teachable module and in the live sessions. Core themes include: how we digest our past, moving from fate to destiny, aligning with fluidity and emergence, and relating to aging and death. Our emphasis will be on bringing this territory alive in ways that reach and nourish us, both as individuals and as humans gathering together. The course draws on spiritual and psychological perspectives, including the work of Christopher Bollas, James Hillman and Thomas Hubl.

We commence the live sessions on Saturday January 22, from 9-11am.

Discount for IAHIP members Click here>>, or with the code IAHIP.

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Emma Philbin Bowman and Simon Courtney have run several live groups together on Zoom. They are passionate about the value and potency of working with small groups, and both bring extensive experience, practice and trainings to this work. Emma also facilitates groups at UCD and Mindfulness.ie.

*two meetings take place on Sundays

Therapy Rooms for Rent in Dublin City Centre

We invite pre-accredited and accredited psychotherapists to join our practice at 5 Clanwilliam Square, Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2

• Join an Experienced and Supportive Team of Psychotherapists
• Evening and Daytime Rental Blocks Available at Affordable Rates
• Newly Furbished, Equipped & Soundproofed Therapy Rooms
• Free Clinical Referrals and Online Scheduling Calendar
• High Speed Wifi for Online / Video Sessions
• Open 5 Days a Week from 8am to 10pm

Please contact Ciarán on 01 661 2220 | Email: info@lifechange.ie

For more details & photos see: www.lifechange.ie/room-rental

Cúlra Counselling is a professional practice in the heart of Limerick City. We have three therapy rooms each with a unique intimate and stylish design.

We currently wish to rent one of our rooms to a professional counsellor/psychotherapist or supervisor. The room available is ideally suitable for families or small groups and can be rented on a daily basis. Ideally, we would like to rent the space for 2 days per week minimum.

Daily rate is €100 which is inclusive of rates, utilities, WIFI and inclusion in our website (If desired).

Check us out at www.culracounselling.ie

Call Maria on 087-6034316 or 061-639171 for further information

Providing quality personal & professional development since 1983

Upgrade your qualification to Masters level

We are currently taking applications for the APEL route into the Practitioner -Researcher year of our Masters programme. It offers successful applicants an opportunity to join an embodied and collaborative Gestalt learning community. GII graduates who completed the programme before 2017 and graduates from a comparable programme who are professionally accredited are eligible to apply.

Find out more at at www.gestaltinstitute.ie

Student Counselling & Wellbeing is part of NUI Galway’s commitment to support the student population during their time in college, in both the Galway and Shannon campuses.

This is currently provided by a core team of NUI Galway qualified staff as well as contract counselling staff on a daily basis. This competition is to provide additional external support to carry out this vital service when workload exceeds the capacity of the core team or specific areas of expertise arise. There is also a requirement for Supervisors.

Step 1: Register with etenders.gov.ie and create a username and password

Step 2: Go to etenders.gov.ie, click Notice Search/public rft’s (on the left), insert NUI Galway in the keyword box, click Search. Completed the application form and submit supporting documentation.

The Sensitive Body

A YogaSOMATICS journey of somatic and energetic healing

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 “powerful”, “subtle”, “transcendental” and “a landing space”.

Block 1: Sensing

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.

Cosy therapy room for rent in a small practice in Wicklow Street, Dublin.

Central location. Own key access. Buzzer system in place. Waiting area.

Currently available all-day Friday and Saturday from 8am – 9pm

Competitive rates / Very good rate if taking both days

Counsellors & Psychotherapists Only

Please contact Alan by text on 0871653521

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Requirements

Proof of qualification; accreditation / pre-accreditation; insurance

Rent €70 per week for I day or €110 per week for 2 days

Deposit required – one month (€280 for I day or €440 for 2 days)

Deposit for keys €30

One month notice required to terminate agreement

Payment by Cash of Revolut

The Sensitive Body

A YogaSOMATICS journey of somatic and energetic healing

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 “powerful”, “subtle”, “transcendental” and “a landing space”.

Block 1: Sensing

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.

€120 for all 3 blocks, if booked before 4th January 2022.

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.