Upcoming Workshops | Counselling

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Workshops

The DCU Counselling & Personal Development Service will be delivering free, psycho-educational workshops during the  Academic Year 2023 / 2024

 

 

 

Our Counselling & Personal Development workshops for Semester 1 can be viewed below.

Just click on the individual topics to see more details. 

Easing Low Mood

Ways to lighten and ease the experience of low mood with Ruan Kennedy, Senior Counsellor. This is a free, two part workshop series. This gives you simple techniques to understand and ease the weight of low mood at thinking, feeling and body level.

Workshop two builds on the first but is not essential to attend both.

Date Event Time Campus Room Sign Up
06.11.2023

Easing Low Mood

Week 1

1.00pm - 2.00pm Glasnevin K201A Click Here
13.11.2023

Easing Low Mood

Week 2

1.00pm - 2.00pm Glasnevin K201A Click Here
Easing Stress & Anxiety

Come along to this free one hour workshop (series of 2) with Ruan Kennedy, Senior Counsellor, that focuses on how to to identify and modify stress patterns. These workshops teach you ways of identifying and responding differently to stress and anxiety. It will help you change patterns of thinking, feeling and the body state that goes with stress and anxiety.

Managing Distress

This workshop run by Gertrude Rufai, Mental health Nurse, discusses ways to manage distress when things feel unmanageable.

 

Managing Relationships

This workshop, run by Gertrude Rufai, Mental health Nurse, will help with interpersonal relationships

Date Event Time Campus Room Sign Up
20.11.2023

Managing Relationships

Week 1 

4.00pm - 5.00pm SPC FG03 Click Here
23.11.2023

Managing Relationships

Week 1

3.00pm - 4.00pm GLA K201A Click Here
27.11.2023

Managing Relationships

Week 2

4.00pm - 5.00pm SPC FG03 Click Here
30.11.2023

Managing Relationships

Week 2

3.00pm - 4.00pm GLA K201A Click Here
Mindfulness

This workshop, run by Gertrude Rufai, Mental Health Nurse, will explore skills on mindfulness to help experience the present moment more fully

 

Minding Your Emotions

This workshop, run by Gertrude Rufai, Mental Health Nurse, will help to recognise and name the emotions we feel without getting overwhelmed by them.

Date Event Time Campus Room Sign Up
06.11.2023

Minding Your Emotions

Week 1

4.00pm - 5.00pm SPC FG03 Click Here
09.11.2023

Minding Your Emotions

Week 1

3.00pm - 4.00pm GLA K201A Click Here
13.11.2023

Minding Your Emotions

Week 2

4.00pm - 5.00pm SPC FG03 Click Here
16.11.2023

Minding Your Emotions

Week 2

3.00pm - 4.00pm GLA K201A Click Here
Practical Ways to Ease Stress & Reconnect with the Body

This workshop, run by Barrie McEntee, Counsellor, will teach participants how to connect with their nervous system through various pressure points in order to reduce the level of overwhelm and stress.

Date Event Time Campus Room Sign Up
17.11.2023

Practical Ways to Ease Stress & Reconnect with the Body Week 1

3.00pm - 4.00pm Online Online Click Here
24.11.2023

Practical Ways to Ease Stress & Reconnect with the Body Week 2

3.00pm - 4.00pm Online Online Click Here
01.12.2023

Practical Ways to Ease Stress & Reconnect with the Body Week 3

3.00pm - 4.00pm Online Online Click Here
08.12.2023

Practical Ways to Ease Stress & Reconnect with the Body Week 4

3.00pm - 4.00pm Online Online Click Here
The Body Project

"The Body Project", with Barrie McEntee, Counsellor, aims to help participants have a more positive relationship with food and body image over the course of 4 one hour weekly sessions.

Date Event Time Campus Room Sign Up
06.11.2023

The Body Project

Week 4

3.00pm - 4.00pm Online Online Click Here
Working with the Inner Critic

A free one hour workshop with Ruan Kennedy, Senior Counsellor, on ways to identify and observe this part of the self. This workshop will help you step back when this part gets triggered.  This can give you more flexibility regarding how to respond and perceive difficult experiences. You will also practise how to use the body to change your inner state and so loosen the grip of the critic.

Date Event Time Campus Room Sign Up
16.10.2023

Working with the Inner Critic 

1.00pm - 2.00pm Glasnevin K201A Click Here

 

All our workshops are free of charge and can be booked centrally via our new events portal.

These are  located under the Mental Health tile.

Just log in with your DCU credentials below to view all workshops and to register with one click. 

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Develop Hub

The Counselling and Personal Development Service has created online video workshop resources for your reference. To watch our online workshop video with Ruan Kennedy - Senior Counsellor, please go to the Mental Health tile on the Develop Hub.

We have created the following online workshops videos to access on our online digital resource hub: 

  • Emotional Wellbeing: Techniques on how to ease Stress and Anxiety online workshop video with Ruan Kennedy-Senior Counsellor
     
  • Emotional Wellbeing: Techniques to ease Low Mood online workshop video with Ruan Kennedy-Senior Counsellor