Mindfulness Courses & Training
The Mindfulness Clinic is committed to the promotion of wellbeing through the integration of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and the practice of Mindfulness. Our mission is to embody, guide and nurture mindful and compassionate living. We teach eight-week Mindfulness courses MBSR, MBCT and one-day workshops to individuals, mental health professionals, voluntary and community groups.
LGBTQIA+ informed care and affirmative therapy one-day workshop
Saturday, 7 October from 10am to 4.00pm, Aghadoe Heights Hotel, Killarney. | Cost €75 Join us for a transformative workshop on LGBTQIA+ informed care and affirmative therapy. This one-day workshop is designed for therapists and healthcare professionals who want to expand their knowledge and skills in providing compassionate and effective care to LGBTQIA+ clients.
Counselling Teenagers, what works?
Friday, 8 September from 9.30am to 4.30pm, The Amber Springs Hotel, Wexford. Cost: €95 includes educational resources, notes, and certificate with 6 CPD hours. Enrich your counselling skills for working with adolescents by participating in this one-day workshop that offers valuable resources and skill-building opportunities to engage teenagers in therapy.
New Year’s Retreat: Opening the Heart, Deepening the Practice
Hayfield Manor Cork, 21st January | Dunboyne Castle. 22nd January. 10am to 4pm. Fee: €50 A one-day retreat guided to cultivate self-compassion and foster qualities of the heart and mind, such as loving-kindness, joy, generosity, gratitude, and wisdom.
Attachment and Psychotherapy | Cinematic Case-Study
Course commences 28th January 2023 – ending 26th June 2023: cost €350 euro
The cinematic case study approach is a unique form of immersive training and deliberate practice that supports therapists in developing therapeutic relationships.
Course commences 28th January 2023 – ending 26th June 2023: cost €350 euro. including notes, resources, cinema screenings, and 18 CPD training hours, certificate, licensed film agreement.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Mindfulness Training, or Mindfulness Courses, may not be considered suitable at this time for those affected with acute depression, active or recent substance alcohol or drug addictions (recommendation two years full sobriety for Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention), PTSD, Bi-polar disorder, current or past psychosis, significant long standing interpersonal difficulties, recent trauma or significant recent or unresolved loss.
The Mindfulness Clinic recommends organising a one-to-one consultation to see if this training is suitable for you at this time.
“Mindfulness is not the answer for all life’s problems. Rather it is that all life’s problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind”. Jon Kabat-Zinn, pp. 25-26, 1991.
Acknowledgements for exclusion criteria: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR): Standards of Practice, edited by Saki F. Santorelli, Centre for Mindfulness University of Massachusetts, Director of Stress Reduction Program, February, 2014.