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  • Asking the Hard Questions – Recovery Goals

    Delivering a workshop on personal recovery goals can be challenging, I have the pleasure of facilitating this in 5B, the acute unit in UHL. It’s a challenging workshop for the participants as we uncover and ask the hard questions on personal goals, these can range from having a shower every morning to planning a trip…

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  • The Small Things

    I co-facilitated “Creativity for Wellbeing” in Ennistymon Day Centre last week and the feedback we received was really good. A participant said: “the two facilitators were absolutely excellent, I could really identify with them.” It’s the small things like this that really matters, it makes everything worthwhile and reminds me why I love my job.…

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  • One Step At A Time

    Going into the acute unit to deliver a workshop is a priviledge. People allowing me into their lives when they are at their most vulnerable is something I never take for granted. I don’t know peoples stories and I don’t need to know as we are there in that moment, in that space just as…

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  • Finding Calm

    After delivering an online workshop on ‘Let’s Talk Resilience’, the feedback at the end of the workshop was so uplifting. One participant stood out for me as I noticed he got more comfortable as the workshop went on and he was smiling by the end of it. He left the following comment, ‘I really enjoyed…

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  • Feeling Empowered in Shannon Family Resource Centre!

    We recently facilitated two wonderful workshops in Shannon Family Resource Centre. Having a small group allowed everyone to fully participate, and everyone got something from it. We first ran “Finding Meaning and Feeling Empowered”, followed by “Managing my Well-Being” the following week. The former, in my opinion, is a deep and philosophical workshop. A lot…

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