Jane has met and worked with a number of well known spiritual and personal development teachers and in this talk she aims to extract the best nuggets from their teachings and share them with you.

This informal chat is to inform you on the teachings that are out there and to hopefully inspire you to bring them into your life!

Jane has worked with Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Kim Eng, Marianne Williamson, Caroline Myss, Bruce Lipton, Tony Buzan, Robert Fisk and many other inspirational teachers

Zoom link to join this evening at 7pm - Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84921948405

 Meeting ID: 849 2194 8405

We have postponed this seminar until the Autumn.

• Are you constantly exhausted from lack of sleep due to pesky night sweats?

• Have you turned into Jekyll & Hyde with raging emotions?

• Do you forget why you went to the press? 

• Has your weight gone to the dark side?

• Is anxiety becoming a norm in your life?

• Do you know what can help?

All part of the menopause chapter, those hormonal changes creating seismic shifts in your life. And not always good….

As humans we don’t like change this is a well known Fact and Menopause is all about Change.

Good changes, bad changes…it’s a mixed bag. But it comes with symptoms that can really unsettle your life.

In this 1.30hr webinar you will:

• Understand what menopause is and what happens in your body

• Learn what symptoms can occur as our key hormones go into decline during this time

• Learn about the symptoms no one wants to talk about

• Understand your treatment options

• Understand the non negotiable life style factors that you must look at to prepare best for these years.

Catherine O’Keeffe is a Menopause Workplace Consultant, founder of Wellness Warrior, and creator of the Menopause Success Summit. She helps organisations implement a comprehensive menopause strategy that leads to meaningful change. She’s helped over 150 companies choose support over silence including Workday International, StateStreet, Department of Health, Sainsburys, and Microsoft. Catherine is author of All you need to know about menopause and is on a mission to shatter the menopause taboo, for good.

Catherine Says

‘I’ve always had an interest in health and wellbeing, but it was when perimenopause took me by surprise at age 44 that I started focusing on women’s health specifically in this phase. 

What I found? Traditionally, there’s been very little support or understanding available for women going through the menopause. 

It’s almost like as a society, we’re afraid to talk about it. It’s almost like women are expected to close their mouths, grit their teeth, and get on with life as if everything is normal. 

But I know nothing is normal during the menopause’

https://www.wellnesswarrior.ie/about

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Children seem to be coming into this world in a more evolved and heightened state of awareness. Before they have been exposed to all of our incongruities and limitations, they are a immense source of wisdom and inspiration.

Greta Thunberg is an example of someone who has transgressed her conventional label of Asperger, and is showing the world that she is re-ordered not dis-ordered!

These children are connected, congruent, coherent , present and authentic .They state precisely what they know to be true for them. They speak from a place of certainty and authenticity about something that they genuinely feel, and then, most frequently, simply are present. Love, light, and compassion are the dominant themes of their inner remembering. They need to feels safe and nurtured so they can to speak of their own unique inner knowing about the world beyond this physical domain. In order to do so they need to feel safe and in control of their bodies via being Physically Literate.

 Yet these children seem to be misunderstood, constantly labelled, struggling in the education system and emotionally.

This seminar is about the following:

• What are they like ?

• What is the role of these children?

• How do we best support and nurture them ?

• Why Physical Literacy is important?

• How is Physical Literacy hindered?

• What kind of education do they need?

• and the way forward!

This information will be of value to teachers, educators, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and anyone linked children.

Dr Alweena Awan received her Doctorate in “Raising Children's Learning and Performance in Schools”, in 2008. She is the Founder of The Child Centre Method - Learning and Behaviour Program®. She is also the originator of CHILD, which is the Centre for Holistic Improvement in Learning and Development, which she created in 2004.
Her knowledge and application of learning and behavioural improvement methodologies for children is unique. She is a published author on the subject of using holistic methods to help children learn . Specifically, she holds the greatest expertise in the identification and rehabilitation of retained reflexes and Physical Literacy. 

Dr Awan has  trained teachers, chiropractors, health care professionals, therapists and parents in her methods, and in the process has helped children to overcome a variety of challenges and to live more fulfilling lives. The Child Centre Method has been used in schools in the UK , Ireland, Brazil and Malaysia. 

Her experience as an academic, combined with her in depth learning and development of energetic medicinal practices make Alweena a unique figure in this field. She has successfully treated hundreds of clients with issues ranging from the physical, to the mental / emotional and spiritual.

More information here https://attuningtofullpotential.com/

THIS IS NOW A ZOOM EVENT - A LINK WILL BE SENT TO YOU NEARER THE TIME AND A RECORDING OF THE SEMINAR WILL BE SENT TO THOSE THAT HAVE BOOKED

If you complain of brain fog to a medical professional, you’re likely to be told that it isn’t a recognised condition. But if you mention brain fog to your friends, they’ll know exactly what you mean: fuzzy thinking, trouble concentrating, a sense of grasping for the right word, feeling like your brain is somehow slowed down. In truth, brain fog is not a diagnosis in itself, but a sign that things aren’t right in your body.

 There have been over 67 million Google searches for ‘brain fog’ online, but most medical professionals claim there is no such thing. Sufferers are left frustrated and without help or treatment, but there is a way to beat brain fog.

Based on her book, BEATING BRAIN FOG, neuroscientist and health psychologist Dr Sabina Brennan will guide you through the science to explain how our brains work, and why we might experience confusion and anxiety. She gives tools to help identify your own cognitive profile, determining your specific symptoms and potential causes, and offers simple strategies to help you feel like yourself again.

 Dr Brennan addresses the multiple causes of brain fog from that caused by hormonal changes, ageing and chemotherapy, to childbirth, medications, ill health, stress and more. Many women first encounter brain fog after childbirth, and then again when perimenopause begins. As the conversation on hormonal imbalance grows, so does the search for solutions to brain fog. Dr Brennan also shows how clearer thinking starts in the gut and explains the importance of the gut/brain connection: what we eat affects how we think.

 Many brain fog symptoms can be eliminated through simple lifestyle changes addressing sleep, nutrition, exercise and stress.

 Offering simple solutions without any complicated tests or expensive supplements, Dr Brennan's 30-day plan is straightforward and easily adapted to your lifestyle. It helps you to tackle the lifestyle factors that can cause or exacerbate brain fog, helping you think faster, sharper and better in just one month.

 Dr Sabina Brennan is a chartered health psychologist, neuroscientist, award-winning science communicator, host of the critically-acclaimed Super Brain podcast, and author of the international bestseller 100 DAYS TO A YOUNGER BRAIN (Orion Spring).

 Dr Brennan leads a large-scale research study on Brain health, lifestyle, genomics and dementia risk at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland’s premier university. Dr Brennan has been engaged as an advisor to governments and global businesses influencing policy and practice in the areas of brain health, ageing, dementia, migraine and multiple sclerosis. She also volunteers on scientific advisory boards and advocacy panels supporting charities, non-profits and NGOs.

www.superbrain.ie

A World In Evolution - Thriving Through Planetary Chaos

We are delighted to welcome Bruce back to Ireland in the Autumn. Having hosted him over Zoom during Covid we can welcome him in person on October 19th.

Read the news, surf the Web, or look out your window, and you will observe that civilization is in a world of crises: From economic collapse to environmental decay, from social and political upheaval to climate change, from hunger, poverty, war, to even a global pandemic.

Crisis ignites evolution! If today’s headlines make you wonder about the fate of our planet, here is some news that may surprise you, from an evolutionary standpoint, we are exactly where we need to be. We are surrounded by evidence that we are on the threshold of a major evolutionary event … Conscious Evolution.  

The turning point of change emerges as people awaken to their inherent power, a new force turning fear of an unwanted situation into hope of new possibilities. Cell biologist and bestselling author Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, presents revolutionary research that reveals how thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs create the conditions of our body and life experiences.

Bruce’s dynamic multimedia presentation provides new science to help navigate this turbulent period in our planet’s history, so that we may evolve from passive victims to responsible co-creators of the world to come. The program offers a bold and hopeful vision of the next “holistic” stage of human civilization and how each of us can fully participate in creating the world to come.

Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., stem cell biologist, epigenetic science pioneer, and bestselling author of The Biology of Belief, Spontaneous Evolution (with Steve Bhaerman) and The Honeymoon Effect. Bruce is a recipient of the prestigious Japanese Goi Peace Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious world for all life on Earth.

Bruce will explore:

• How thoughts, emotions, and environment, control our genes and the character of our behavior

• The interaction between the body (hardware), the mind (software), and spirit (programmer), that naturally occurs within you.

• A biological model of mind-body interactions that educates, empowers, and promotes self-responsibility

• How prenatal and perinatal experiences provide programmed subconscious perceptions that shape our physiology and behavior.

• How to become the master of your fate rather than the ‘victim’ of your programs

• The power of the subconscious: Reprogramming your deeply ingrained patterns to live the life you want

• Why the often-dismissed Placebo Effect is your most powerful healing tool

• The Nocebo Effect – The science of “negative thinking” and how to break free from the limiting stories we tell ourselves

• Beyond “survival of the fittest” – How consciousness and cooperation are critical to civilization’s survival and growth

• The scientific insights that reveal the nature and role of our immortal spirituality

• The way to make success a self-fulfilling prophecy, rather than a day-to-day struggle

This event is co-hosted with Positive Life

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Marianne is a familiar figure to Irish audiences having presented several live events in Ireland over the years. We now have the opportunity to connect with her online and hear about her latest words of wisdom in world today.

She ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020 and in 2021 she launched MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com.

Marianne is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose & Bill Maher. Seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1. The mega best seller A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.

Marianne’s other books include The Law of Divine Compensation, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, The Gift of Change, Enchanted Love, A Year of Miracles, and her newest book, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

She founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit that has delivered more than 14 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS. She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supports the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace.

We are co-hosting this seminar with Positive Life

Please note the time difference. For American audiences this event will be much earlier.

Pacific Coast Time 11am

Eastern Time 2pm

Due to popular demand we have invited Tony back to give his excellent seminar on Teenagers.

Adolescence is about becoming adult. Depending on the teenager’s experiences in infancy and childhood, the teenage years can be a rollercoaster of emotional highs and lows or a relatively smooth ride into maturity. The level of maturity of the significant adults in teenagers’ lives – parents and teachers – is critical to how well teenagers manage the many challenges – physical, emotional, sexual, intellectual, behavioural, social, creative and spiritual – that come their way.

Attention to what lies hidden behind teenager’s distressing responses is required for teenagers to begin to make progress towards mature adulthood. Parents and teachers need to understand that when young people are troubled and troubling they are not trying to make life difficult for parents, teachers and others; they are trying to communicate how difficult life is for them.

Themes covered during the seminar will be:

• The wisdom of adolescence

• Teenagers’ search for identity

• Parents’/teachers’ defensive behaviours that threaten teenagers’ wellbeing

• Helping teenagers who are troubled and troubling

• Identifying teenagers who are suffering inner turmoil

• Parental ‘letting go’ and teenagers’ ‘leave-taking’

Dr Tony Humphreys - Biography


Dr. Tony Humphreys is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in private practice and specialist lecturer for health care and teaching professions in University College, Cork and Limerick University. He is Ireland's most influential Psychologist and leading speaker on individual, couple and family relationships, relationships in the workplace, self-esteem and motivation.

He is the author of several best selling books: 'Work and Worth: Take Back Your Life"; 'The Power of ‘Negative' Thinking"; ‘A Different Kind of Teacher’; ‘Self-Esteem: The Key to Your Child’s Education’; ‘The Family, Love It and Leave It’; ‘Myself, My Partner’; ‘A Different Kind of Discipline’; ‘Children Feeling Good’, ‘Examining our Times - for the way we live now’, ‘Whose Life Are You Living?’, The Mature Manager, The Compassionate Intentions of Illness. His books are now in twenty languages and he has become internationally known as a seminar and conference speaker in Europe and South Africa. He has recorded three spoken-word audio- cassettes: ‘Self-Esteem for Adults’, ‘Raising Children’s Self-Esteem’ and ‘Embrace Failure’.


Dr. Humphreys has had several appearances on T.V and has had his own radio programmes plus several interviews. He also speaks on many radio programmes and has regular columns in one of Ireland’s leading newspapers, The Irish Examiner.

People find his talks and seminars thought-provoking, inspirational and challenging. He reaches his audience at a deep level, inspiring change and encouraging a fresh perspective.

Dr Humphreys runs the following courses at UCC: Certificate in Interpersonal Communication, Diploma in Parent Mentoring, Higher Diploma in Relationship Studies and outreach programmes in Dublin - Diploma in Parent Mentoring and Higher Diploma in Relationship Studies.

If you have booked for this event your name will be on the list when you arrive. Registration opens at 6.30pm

Aging as a Spiritual Practice: Shifting from Role to Soul with Dr Connie Zweig

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist and writer. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. Her new bestselling book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won both the 2021 American Book Fest Award and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.

 Dr. Connie has retired from clinical practice. She has been initiated into Elderhood as a Certified Sage-ing Leader.

You can find excerpts of the new book on her blog at https://medium.com/@conniezweig

link to book CLICK HERE

Dr Eben Alexander will focus on his NDE and the account in his book Proof of Heaven, and he will talk about its impacts in the 13 years since then, which brings in discussion of consciousness, the brain's function, memory, spiritual health and meditation.

Academic neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander III, whose career includes decades as a physician and associate professor at Harvard Medical School and revered teaching hospitals, was once staunchly committed to the materialist world view -- the belief that the physical world is all that exists. His scientific belief system was altered by his 2008 transcendental near-death experience (NDE), an odyssey into another realm during a week-long coma. Despite a bleak medical prognosis, Dr. Alexander awoke to make an inexplicable return to full health. His medical case and recovery were validated in the peer-reviewed Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. Since his NDE, Dr. Alexander has been reconciling his rich spiritual experience with quantum physics, cosmology and the philosophy of mind. Dr. Alexander speaks around the world to educate about the role that consciousness plays in wellness, healing and recovery.

A pioneering scientist and modern thought leader, Dr. Alexander has been featured in more than 400 media interviews including for ABC-TV’s Good Morning America and 20/20, The Dr. Oz Show, Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, Larry King Now, Fox and Friends, Discovery Channel, Biography Channel and numerous international radio, digital and podcasts.

His books are available in more than 40 countries: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife, and Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness, co-authored with Sacred Acoustics co-founder Karen Newell.

http://ebenalexander.com/

EBEN ALEXANDER III, M.D.

Stella O'Malley is a psychotherapist, best-selling author, public speaker and a parent with many years’ experience working in counselling and psychotherapy. Born in Dublin, Stella now calls Birr, Co. Offaly home where she lives with her husband and two children and runs her private practice.

Whether we like it or not, at some point children are going to come across some form of pornography. Many are under twelve years old so the problem must be addressed at primary school level. Pornography is deeply damaging to young minds as it distorts sex into a brutal violent act rather than the romantic relationship it should be. Violence towards women is common and expectations on both sexes are unrealistic and distorted.

This interactive seminar will discuss these issues and provide guidance to parents on how to protect their children

Fee to join seminar €20.00

At this workshop, Ryan Mathie will draw upon his experience from building a 7-figure Coaching business to offer you a complete, step-by-step system for turning your Coaching business into a high-fee coaching business - 100% from the HEART.

 Discover how to build an online high-fee coaching business without a FB Page, Best-Selling Book or even a Website...

 This will be an intimate and interactive live coaching experience unlike any other.

 You’ll Discover: 

• The most effective client creation strategy we use to create a predictable flow of high-fee clients in our online Coaching Business.

• The #1 reason Coaches burn out and have to go back to their 9-5 job.

• Where you should be investing your time and energy to build your purpose-driven business right now (this doesn’t include networking events, building your website, or writing eBooks).

• How new coaches are enrolling clients in $5,000+ coaching programs and growing their coaching businesses WITHOUT spending months blogging, vlogging, or ‘building a following’.

• AND... how to do ALL of this while being totally authentic and from a place of absolute integrity.

Are you driven by a deep sense of purpose to impact people’s lives through your Coaching, Mentoring, Thought Leadership, and/or Expertise? 

 Becoming a successful purpose-driven entrepreneur in a relatively short period of time is a goal that’s entirely achievable — and one that will transform your life forever.

 The first thing I want to share is that I’m NOT a marketer preaching the landing page/funnel/paid advertising route, while this is important at the right stage of the business building journey, there are many more important things to learn before more sophisticated marketing and scaling strategies are to be considered. 

 I’m a personal development and business expert. I’ve coached in personal and professional transformation for 11+ years and during that time I’ve shown thousands of Coaches what it really takes to launch and grow a profitable business through powerful, meaningful, and life-changing conversations. This way coaches get to build their business by doing what they love to do the most - coach people and make a difference.

Heidi stresses the importance of Self Care ‘Over the last few years I have gone from 10 minutes of self care to 2 hours self care daily. This was brought about due to my witnessing my brother diagnosed with a stage 4 brain cancer. I knew the importance of self care, knew the science etc but with the stress of work/family and societal pressures found it difficult to 'find the time'. From Dr James Gordon’s book Self Care is the True Primary Care.

  Are you the same?

Heidi will demonstrate 2 very short but powerful techniques that can be used daily to help deal with life's stresses and explain the science and why 'self care truly is primary care'. 

Heidi Jackson BA and BNSc has been an Oncology Nurse and Complementary Therapist for 20 years. She is a Certified facilitator and on the Faculty of the Centre for Mind Body Medicine

She loves sharing her passion to empower people to help heal themselves.

DATE CHANGE TO THURSDAY OCTOBER 21ST

Live the Life You Want To Have Lived!

We all have the same 10,080 minutes in the week but Boy do we use them differently!

In this workshop style event, psychologist, mindfulness teacher and author Susannah Healy will help attendees to reorientate their lives towards what is meaningful to them.  So often we drift through life, living in an unconscious, habitual way.  Life is busy and so often we are pulled off the path towards the life we want to have lived. Through exercises and reflections based on the work of Viktor Frankl and other authors, attendees will come to identify what is truly meaningful to them, the surprising faux-friends in meaning-making, and a renewed and realistic plan for a purpose-driven life to fit their lifestyle.

Susannah Healy is a psychologist, mindfulness meditation teacher (Irl & UK) and author.  Her most recent publication "The Seven Day Soul: Finding Meaning Beneath the Noise" (Hachette) (2019) has already been translated and published internationally.  Susannah has written for multiple print media in Ireland, has acted as Agony Aunt on a popular radio show and been a guest on numerous radio and television programmes.  In her work as a Management Consultant, she works with client companies to create the meaning-centred workplace.  Visit: www.SusannahHealy.com

This online seminar is a relaxed interview style talk with Dr James Gordon.

A peace-maker and consensus-builder, Dr. Gordon is known for cross-cultural relationship building as well as deep life-changing therapeutic work with individuals and families. For more than 25 years, he has led CMBM teams, to relieve population-wide psychological trauma: during and after wars in the Balkans and Middle East; after climate related disasters in Louisiana, Texas, California, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and California; in communities affected by school shootings; and with active duty U.S. military and veterans and their families.

Over the past 3 years, Dr. Gordon and his team have worked closely with tribal elders, teachers, and clinicians on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservations in South Dakota to create a program that has married mind-body medicine to traditional Lakota healing and stemmed a tide of youth suicide.

James S. Gordon, MD, author of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing, is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist and the founder and executive director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. Dr. Gordon is internationally recognized for using self-awareness, self-care, and group support to heal population-wide psychological trauma. He is a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School, and was chairman (under Presidents Clinton and GW Bush) of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.

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An evening with Dr. Joe Vitale, exploring the six steps to enlightenment. Dr. Joe has recently written a book on this very subject, so we can't wait to learn more. This event will take place on Thursday May 27th at 7.30 p.m. Irish Time. The link and login details will be sent to all ticket holders the day beforehand, and a replay will be sent the following morning, for anyone who can't make it live, or wants to watch the event again.

Dr. Joe Vitale is the author of far too many books to mention here. Here are just a few of them:

He wrote the bestseller, 'The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or anything else) from the inside out'. It became a #1 bestseller twice, even beating the latest Harry Potter book.

He also wrote Life’s Missing Instruction Manual: The Guidebook You Should Have Been Given at Birth. It, too, became a #1 bestseller and was picked up by WalMart.

One of his most popular titles is called 'Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More.' This book reflects on an ancient Hawaiian practice, known as Ho’oponopono. Joe has hosted multiple live events on this subject, and he has created quite a following on this title alone.

Our event with Joe will focus on the six steps to enlightenment.

This event will take place on Thursday May 27th at 7.30 p.m. Irish Time. The link and login details will be sent to all participants the day beforehand, and a replay will be sent the following morning, for anyone who can't make it live, or wants to watch the event again.

This event is in partnership with POSITIVE LIFE

For thousands of years people have tried to tap into the stillness and silence that rests within to discover their deeper selves. In Secrets of Meditation, davidji takes you there, demystifying the practice along the way and guiding the reader on an epic journey into your own consciousness. Whether you are new to meditation, a crisis meditator or someone who has been meditating for years, Secrets of Meditation will take your practice, and your life, to the next level.

Davidji shares his own meditation journey along his own path to awakening and shares the impact it can have on your physical health, your relationships, your emotional wellbeing and your spiritual life. As the secrets to an effortless meditation practice are revealed, you will unlock the door to your own personal journey and discover what is actually supposed to happen when you close your eyes. 

Davidji shares the wisdom of the ages in a very accessible and entertaining style - demystifying rigid commandments, revealing the five greatest myths of meditation, and illuminating the most powerful rituals to weave a practice into your day. Secrets of Meditation will have you meditating in minutes, setting powerful intentions for each day, and living a happier, easier and more fulfilling life.

One minute meditation you can do anywhere HERE

Anita Moorjani is a world-renowned spiritual author, speaker and teacher. We are thrilled to welcome her for this very special evening, during which we will explore how to use our sensitivity at this time to embody love and stand in our own true power.

Anita says, “In 2006, after a four-year battle with cancer, I fell into a coma and was given hours to live. As my doctors gathered to revive me, I journeyed into a near-death experience (NDE) where I was given the choice to return to my physical form or to continue into this new realm. I chose the former, and when I regained consciousness, my cancer began to heal.”

Read about Anita’s near death experience HERE

This online event will be co-hosted by Paul Congdon of Positive Life and Jane Stephenson of Seminars.ie.

Click here to book your place.

Due to demand we are repeating this seminar from last year.

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Seminar price is €25 (approximately $30)

All attendees receive a FREE digital downloads of Terri Daniel’s book, Turning the Corner on Grief Street

If you are mourning the death of a loved one or a loss of any kind, or if you are a professional working with the bereaved, join us in a rare learning environment that provides unique healing tools not found in traditional counseling or support group settings. We will focus on the many different types of losses we've experienced as the result of Covid-19, including death of a loved one, loss of employment, loss of social interaction, and many other loss types.

The educational and therapeutic processes in this workshop include guided meditation, art & music therapy, interactive group work and sacred ceremony for moving the “stuck” energy of grief out of our bodies and into a more spacious, less constricted, more ventilated  emotional landscape.

In this workshop you will experience:

. Multi-cultural loss and grief practices
. Art and music therapy
. Guided meditations and journeys
. Heart-healing ceremonies and rituals
​. Grieving in community

Who Should Attend?

Join us if you are grieving:

. The death of a loved one
. Loss of any kind (relationship loss, job loss, pet loss)
. Loss and change due to Covid 19
. Loss of faith in political, social and religious systems
. Economic fracture
. Loss of assumptions about how life is supposed to work

Dr. Terri Daniel CT, CCTP is a clinical chaplain, certified trauma professional and end-of-life educator certified in death, dying and bereavement by the Association of Death Education and Counseling. Her workshops help the dying and the bereaved find healing through meditative, ceremonial and therapeutic processes that focus on inner transformation rather than external events, and her work is acclaimed by physicians, hospice workers, grief counselors and clergy for its ability to help grieving individuals discover a more spiritually-spacious understanding of death and beyond. 

Terri has a BA in Religious Studies from Marylhurst University, an MA in Pastoral Care from Fordham University, and a DMin in Pastoral Care and Counseling from the San Francisco Theological Seminary. She is the author of four books on death and the afterlife, and is also the founder of the annual Afterlife Awareness Conference. CLICK HERE for more information

Article about Terri’s work CLICK HERE

For more information about Dr. Daniel’s workshops, please visit www.spiritualityandgrief.com

Watch this video for a sample of our workshop content.
​This clip was from a holiday season workshop where we demonstrated an important healing process.  

Dreams are gifts from the soul; they tell you where you are and where you need to go to. Indeed, dreams are stories and are always meaningful. Symbolism is the nature tongue of your dreams, the language of the soul.   Tony will explore how dreams allow the real inner you to show and how to begin to interpret them, particularly lucid dreams. ‘A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read’ (Talmud)

Dr. Tony Humphreys is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in private practice and specialist lecturer for health care and teaching professions in University College, Cork and Limerick University. He is Ireland's most influential Psychologist and leading speaker on individual, couple and family relationships, relationships in the workplace, self-esteem and motivation.

He is the author of several best selling books: 'Work and Worth: Take Back Your Life"; 'The Power of ‘Negative' Thinking"; ‘A Different Kind of Teacher’; ‘Self-Esteem: The Key to Your Child’s Education’; ‘The Family, Love It and Leave It’; ‘Myself, My Partner’; ‘A Different Kind of Discipline’; ‘Children Feeling Good’, ‘Examining our Times - for the way we live now’, ‘Whose Life Are You Living?’, The Mature Manager, The Compassionate Intentions of Illness. His books are now in twenty languages and he has become internationally known as a seminar and conference speaker in Europe and South Africa. He has recorded three spoken-word audio- cassettes: ‘Self-Esteem for Adults’, ‘Raising Children’s Self-Esteem’ and ‘Embrace Failure’.


Dr. Humphreys has had several appearances on T.V and has had his own radio programmes plus several interviews. He also speaks on many radio programmes and has regular columns in one of Ireland’s leading newspapers, The Irish Examiner.

People find his talks and seminars thought-provoking, inspirational and challenging. He reaches his audience at a deep level, inspiring change and encouraging a fresh perspective.

Dr Humphreys runs the following courses at UCC: Certificate in Interpersonal Communication, Diploma in Parent Mentoring, Higher Diploma in Relationship Studies and outreach programmes in Dublin - Diploma in Parent Mentoring and Higher Diploma in Relationship Studies.

Ageism is a prejudice against older people because they are old, and while racism and sexism is now regarded as politically incorrect, ageism seems to slide under the radar. 

While the main thrust of this talk is ageism, Sabina will first explore what ageing is to get people thinking about the factors beyond the number of years since birth that influence how well or how badly we age. Then she will move on to ageism and finally finish with what actions we and others can take to tackle ageism including self-ageism

• Ageism can affect anyone at any age but my talk will focus on ageism towards older adults. 

• Ageism is the most common form of prejudice, more tolerated than racism or sexism.

• Ageism leads to discrimination, inequaity, stereotyping and prejudicial actions and practices.

• Ageism impacts on health, health care and treatment.

• Older people are less likely to be given the same medical treatment as younger adults even when it is likely to be just as effective.

• Ageism is a major barrier to the human rights of older people - Older people don't deserve more or less respect than younger people but they are entitled to the same rights as everyone else

There is a lot we are living with these days:  a pandemic, political unrest, racial injustice, and climate change. Let’s have an open conversation on how mindfulness can meet life in a wiser way in the midst of it all.

Bob Stahl, PhD, has founded eight Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programmes in medical centres in the SF Bay Area and is currently offering programs at Dominican Hospital and El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos and Mt. View. Dr. Stahl was also a Senior Teacher Trainer for the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Bob is co-author of 5 books:  A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Living With Your Heart Wide Open, Calming the Rush of Panic, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety, and MBSR Everyday.  Bob is the guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Centre Santa Cruz and a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Centre.

Bob, with Carolyn West and Anne Twohig, will offer a 7-Day Online Insight Meditation Retreat in April 2021. Click Here for more information.

THIS WEBINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Follow this link for John Pilger’s account of the ongoing trial of Julian Assange CLICK HERE

This webinar is a conversation between ex UN Co-ordinator Denis Halliday and seasoned journalist and film maker John Pilger as they discuss the case of Julian Assange and the threat of war, particularly nuclear war.

There will be an opportunity to ask questions. The seminar will be recorded and your booking will give you access to the recording.

John Pilger is an Australian firebrand journalist. He has reported from all over the world, covering numerous wars, notably Vietnam. Still in his twenties, he became the youngest journalist to receive Britain's highest award for journalism, Journalist of the Year and was the first to win it twice. Moving to the United States, he reported the upheavals there in the late 1960s and 1970s. He marched with America's poor from Alabama to Washington, following the assassination of Martin Luther King. He was in the same room when Robert Kennedy, the presidential candidate, was assassinated in June 1968.

His work in South East Asia produced an iconic issue of the London Mirror, devoted almost entirely to his world exclusive dispatches from Cambodia in the aftermath of Pol Pot's reign. The combined impact of his Mirror reports and his subsequent documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, raised almost $50 million for the people of that stricken country. Similarly, his 1994 documentary and dispatches report from East Timor, where he travelled under cover, helped galvanise support for the East Timorese, then occupied by Indonesia.

In Britain, his four-year investigation on behalf of a group of children damaged at birth by the drug Thalidomide, and left out of the settlement with the drugs company, resulted in a special settlement.
He has won an Emmy and a BAFTA for his documentaries, which have also won numerous US and European awards, such as as the Royal Television Society's Best Documentary.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Denis J. Halliday, a national of Ireland, to the post of United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq as of 1 September 1997, at the Assistant Secretary-General level, and he served as such until end September 1998. During this period, the Security Council Resolution 986 “Oil for Food” Programme, introduced in 1996/97 to assist the people of Iraq under the Economic Sanctions imposed and sustained by the Security Council, was more than doubled in terms of oil revenues allowed. This enabled the introduction of a multi-sectoral approach, albeit modest, to the problems of resolving malnutrition and child mortality. Mr Halliday resigned from the post in Iraq and from the United Nations as a whole effective 31 October 1998 after serving the Organisation since mid 1964 - some 34 years.

Prior to that, and from mid 1994, Mr Halliday served as Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management of the United Nations, based in its New York Headquarters. During this period, he introduced on behalf of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly a strategy for the better management, performance and development of some 15,000 United Nations staff world-wide.

Before taking up the Human Resources Management function in mid 1994, following a brief assignment in Thailand as UNDP Regional Representative, Mr Halliday had been Director, Division of Personnel, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) from late 1989 into early 1994. He took over that post after being Chef de Cabinet, Office of the Administrator, of the UNDP for some two years.

Mr Halliday has spent most of his long career with the United Nations in development and humanitarian assistance-related posts both in New York and overseas, primarily in South-East Asia. Following a year in Kenya as a Quaker volunteer 1962-63, Mr Halliday joined the United Nations in 1964 serving in Teheran, Iran as a junior professional officer in the forerunner of UNDP - the United Nations Technical Assistance Board and Special Fund. From 1966 to 1972, he served in the Asia Bureau of UNDP Headquarters in New York and then transferred to Malaysia in 1972. In Malaysia, covering programmes in that country plus Singapore and Brunei, he served until 1877 as Deputy Regional Representative. In Indonesia, he continued at the Deputy level for two years until 1979, when he was asked to reopen and head up as Resident Representative the UNDP office in Samoa covering that country, the Cook Islands, the Tokelau Islands and Niue in the South Pacific.

In 1981, Mr Halliday was asked to return to New York to serve in the Asia and Pacific Bureau where he was involved in setting up the first round table meetings of UNDP for Asia. In 1985, he took up the post of Deputy Director, Division of Personnel before becoming Chef de Cabinet in 1987.

Mr Halliday graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and holds an M.A. in Economics, Geography and Public Administration

NOW A ZOOM WEBINAR, questions can be taken and attendees will participate through the chat box function

Breakthrough - The Power of Interrupted Relationships

The three most common creative delusions are :

• we all come from happy families

• marriage will bring me happiness

• having children will make me happy.

The consequences of these delusions are GREAT EXPECTATIONS and, when not met, great disappointment and resentment. The reality is that fulfillment lies in each of our own hands, that separateness is the basis for togetherness and in couple liaisons each needs to appoint the other the guardian of their solitude.

Dr. Tony Humphreys is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Author and National and International Speaker.

He began his career as a Clinical Psychologist in State Psychiatric and Psychological Services in England and Ireland and since 1990 has been working in private practice in Ireland.

He works with individuals, couples, families, schools, local communities and the business community. He is the Director of three National University of Ireland courses which are run in University College Cork and in an outreach centre in Dublin.

He is Co-Founder of  The Irish Association of Relationship Mentors and a Member of Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI), IARM. 

The Double Edged Sword of Mindfulness: Making Mindfulness safe for everyone including trauma survivors.  

If you deliver any mind body practices such as mindfulness meditation, yoga or any other type of contemplative practice, trauma is likely to show up in your classroom.  Perhaps you are a mindfulness teacher, psychotherapist, a guidance counsellor or work in pastoral care and hospice care. You may have noticed how class participants’ sometime react in a way you didn’t expect.

As the mindfulness teacher or facilitator, you have an inkling that something may not be quite right but you are not sure what? Perhaps it could be an old trauma, an upsetting memory or a reaction that the person didn’t quite expect. It could have been a something that required support and guidance. As a mindfulness teacher or therapist it is important to be equipped to recognise and respond to this.

Mindfulness is a proven stress reduction tool that has become increasingly popular and while this is a good thing- it can be like a double edged sword- good in one way, for stress reduction. However, mindfulness has the potential to exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. As teachers we need to know how to take good care of our participants.

This evening talk will explore the intersection of mindfulness and trauma. You will be introduced to Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness by David Treleaven. David has made the study of this his life’s work and is an expert in the area, he offers an authentic understanding of trauma, that includes his personal experience while on meditation retreat.  We will explore the ways in which we need to adapt our teaching or therapy sessions so that we can integrate mindfulness in a safe way for everyone and especially trauma survivors.

David Treleaven, PhD, is a writer, educator, and trauma professional whose work focuses on the intersection of trauma and mindfulness. He is author of the book Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing (W. W. Norton, 2018), which was acclaimed by Rick Hanson as “a rare combination of solid scholarship, clinically useful methods, and passionate advocacy for those who have suffered from trauma.” He’s lectured on trauma-sensitive mindfulness at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Omega Institute in New York. Trained in counseling psychology at the University of British Columbia, he received his doctorate in psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University.

DUE TO COVID19 RESTRICTIONS THIS IS NOW AN ONLINE EVENT

Maximise your memory, boost your brain health and defy dementia

This seminar will give you easy tips and exercises to assess your brain health, improve your memory, protect your brain from cognitive decline and slow the effects of dementia.

ABOUT SABINA BRENNAN

Dr Sabina Brennan is a research psychologist and award winning science communicator. She currently works as a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. Her scientific research focuses on understanding dementia risk and protective factors to establish how decline in cognitive function might be prevented or delayed.

She is the author of the No 1 bestseller 100 Days to a Younger Brain.

She believes that science is for sharing and has made more than 30 short films that offer practical advice on brain health, memory loss and dementia. These free online films have been viewed in more than 140 countries, these free online films have been translated into multiple languages and are used by national health and advocacy organisations on four continents.

Together with colleagues and project partners she has developed a number of websites and a free brain health app. These materials have been used by  the National Health Service in the UK and by the Health Services Executive in  Ireland for training and for the national Understand Together Dementia Awareness Campaign.

Sabina is fascinated by the brain and human behaviour and gives talks on a wide range of topics ( stress, sleep, caring, resilience, brain health, dementia, managing migraine, ageism, love etc). She has been described as passionate, inspirational and entertaining speaker and is a regular guest, panellist and expert contributor on radio and television in Ireland.

TOO LITTLE STRESS IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU

Whether you are suffering from anxiety, migraine, want to lose weight, stop smoking or transform your business with goal setting hypnotherapy can help.

Hypnosis can be highly effective in dealing with these issues by helping you reframe your mindset.

The earliest reference to hypnosis relates to sleep temples in Egypt (3000-1000 BC) and Greece (2000-500BC) which provided refuge for patients whose healing experience involved hypnotic chanting. Sometime later, Paracelsus, a German-Swiss physician, botanist, alchemist and astrologer who lived from 1493 to 1541 was documented as using hypnotic techniques. He believed that the body could heal itself and that the mind and body are intertwined in the healing process.

There is an abundance of literature demonstrating the efficacy of hypnosis for everything from migraines to weight loss and more recently, imaging techniques have allowed us to gain an insight into what is happening in the brain when suggestions are given to a person who is in the trance state.

This talk will delve into

• the type of conditions that hypnosis can help with

• what to expect from an hypnosis session

• who hypnosis is suitable for

• misconceptions about hypnosis

• efficacy of hypnosis

Dr. Niamh Flynn is a sports psychologist based in The Galway Clinic. She has over 20 years of experience working with elite and recreational athletes and with business people. Her aim is to help you to achieve your goals in the most efficient and fastest way possible. She has worked with intercounty teams, CEOs, COOs and athletes from a variety of sports to assist them to achieve their full potential. In addition to one on one consultations she has delivered talks nationally and internationally for major corporations and organisations including Dublin Airport Authority, Chronic Pain Ireland, Connacht Rugby, Athlone Institute of Technology and many more

Includes link to recording of webinar after the event

Did you know that hundreds of thousands of traffic accident deaths are caused by lack of sleep? Many more than are caused by alcohol and drug abuse. Lack of sleep can literally kill you and Dr John Arden will explore the science of a good night’s sleep in this webinar.

Mental health has suffered during lockdown and has affected sleep patterns with more and more people reporting lack of sleep. In today’s world of broadband connectivity in every room in the house, including the bedroom, it is important to address this issue and understand the need for a good night’s sleep.

The late William Dement, pioneer in the science of Sleep, found that 80% of students in Stanford were sleep deprived and that most adults wake up with sleep debt.

The best sleep habits are consistent, healthy routines that allow all of us, regardless of our age, to meet our sleep needs every night, to keep on top of life’s challenges every day. We require long periods of sleep in order to restore and rejuvenate, to grow muscle, repair tissue, and synthesize hormones and the most important part is Stage 4 sleep, which can be inhibited by alcohol and drug use.

Dr John Arden Dr. Arden’s study of neuropsychology has inspired him to integrate neuroscience and psychotherapy, synthesizing the biological and psychological into a new vision for psychotherapy: Brain-Based Therapy. His work incorporates what is currently known about the brain and its capacities, including neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, with psychotherapy research, mindfulness, nutritional neuroscience and social intelligence. He conducts seminars on Brain-Based Therapy throughout the United States and throughout the world.

Given the challenging times we find ourselves in today with Covid19 lockdown, let us draw inspiration from Viktor Frankl, a prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, he was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances.

The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph.

Frankl came to believe that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

Peter Purcell designs experiences that cultivate meaning in organizations for whole health & well being. Logotherapy & Existential Analysis is at the core of the practice to help employees gain a different perspective, enable them to think and feel differently about the role of work in their life and to enhance or find a sense of meaning in their work.

In 2012 he read a book called “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. It touched him deeply, and in 2015 he received first class honors and a post graduate practitioner’s diploma in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis at Viktor Frankl Institute Ireland. He currently works as a clinical Logotherapist, integrating the philosophy, theory and practice in to every day life for people in business, sport and healthcare.

He is an academic associate with Viktor Frankl Institute Ireland, accredited with the international association of logotherapy and existential analysis in Vienna.

Who better to talk about the challenges of being confined to a restricted space than the former Governor of Mountjoy, John Lonergan?

In conversation with his long time friend and author Brian Smyth. Join us for this Zoom seminar

John Lonergan entered the prison service in 1968 and in the years that followed he saw human nature at its worst - and often, unexpectedly, at its best. He developed a deep understanding both of human nature and of Irish society. His description of life in the prison service in his book The Governor, is not only a gripping revealing, surprising account but gives a unique insight into modern Ireland.

Brian Smyth - Brian is founding member and Managing Director of Maybe International and has over 20 years of experience helping organisations in different parts of the world to achieve new levels of performance, success and overall well-being. Most of these organisations were large global companies in North and South America, Asia and in different countries across Europe. He is the author of Your Beautiful Life. A Gift.

Robert Fisk is The Independent’s multi-award-winning Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut. He has lived in the Arab world for more than 40 years, covering the war in Syria and Lebanon, five Israeli invasions, the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Algerian civil war, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, the American invasion and occupation of Iraq and the 2011 Arab revolutions. His latest book is ‘The Great War For Civilisation’.

Conor O'Clery has retired as the Irish Times Foreign Correspondent and has twice been awarded Journalist of the Year for his dispatches from Moscow and for his reporting on the 9/11 attacks on New York. He is the author of several books, his latest being ‘The Shoemaker and his Daughter’.

These veteran journalists will discuss current political scenarios based on their many years of experience and insights into world politics. This is an interactive session and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.