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SHEP NUACHT - #38 (March 2019)

Training & Development ● Low-cost Counselling ● Advocacy ● International Partnership● Earth Awareness

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SHEP Facilitators at the First Annual Gathering of Mid-West SHEP Facilitators, in Limerick on 27th February.

Dates for Your Diary - Regional Gatherings of SHEP Facilitators 2019 At the February Management Committee meeting it was agreed that we will try out a new, simpler approach which involves the coming together of all Facilitators involved with SHEP in each geographic region area, once per year. Dates for 2019 have now been set: Mid-West SHEP Facilitators: Wednesday, February 27th All Kerry SHEP Facilitators: Friday, May 17th All South-East SHEP Facilitators: Friday, May 24th All Cork SHEP Facilitators: Monday, September 9th

SHEP NUACHT - #38 (March 2019)

Training & Development ● Low-cost Counselling ● Advocacy ● International Partnership● Earth Awareness

Our hope is that these annual meetings will play an important role in supporting the development of a community of learning and practice among Facilitators in the Project. We are looking for volunteers to help organise these events – if you are interested you might contact [email protected] before the end of March.

Important: Selection of New SHEP Facilitators (Phase 1) The Management Committee recently agreed that a new, long-term initiative to bring new people into the work as facilitators is essential and should be commenced as soon as possible. Phase 1 will start this year – and will focus on, but won’t necessarily be limited to, identifying new additional facilitators to work in the following training area - Personal Development (Foundation Part 1). This phase will include giving an opportunity to SHEP-trained Tutors who also have counselling/psychotherapy training to express their interest (see below). It will also include inducting in Cork, Kerry and Limerick, a small number of new personnel from outside of SHEP. Phase 2 will commence next year and will have more of a focus on broadening the facilitator base (including increasing its diversity). The Management Committee appreciates that its decision to scale up the bringing in of new SHEP Facilitators over the next few years will require the support of existing Trainers and will impact on them. As the number of training opportunities for apprentices is limited, from now on we need to assume that each training group we organise will include an apprentice or a new facilitator. Therefore, existing SHEP Trainers will have to co-facilitate with new people and/or to work with new apprentices – and to mentor them. This is something that many Trainers have done for many years as new people joined us, and we acknowledge the work put in by Trainers over the years and the important results. Some Trainers have also worked with apprentices. What is new is the scale, and the expectation that all Trainers involved in course delivery will accommodate either an apprentice or will co-facilitate with a new Facilitator. This is what is needed now for the well-being of the Project. We are interested in hearing ideas from current Trainers about what supports the Project might put in place regarding the mentoring of new apprentices and facilitators.

Selection of New SHEP Facilitators - Expression of Interest We are now seeking expression of interest from SHEP-Trained Tutors, who have completed or are soon to complete counselling/psychotherapy training, who wish to be considered for co-facilitation opportunities with SHEP in the following training area - Personal Development (Foundation Part 1). Application Forms are available from [email protected] and should be submitted no later than Thursday, March 21st. Successful applicants may start in September 2019 or September 2020.

Congratulations We wish to extend heartfelt congratulations and good wishes to Maeve Moroney who is taking leave of absence from SHEP and is taking up a new full-time position in Employee Assistance with the HSE, based at Cork University Hospital. Maeve has made a huge contribution to the work of Coiscéim over the last nine years.

Busy time with start up of new Training Groups We are very pleased that three continuing personal development courses (one each in Cork, Kerry and Limerick) has recently started. Four reflective practice groups including one for the first time in Limerick city. A significant number of short courses have also started including four in county Limerick.

SHEP NUACHT - #38 (March 2019)

Training & Development ● Low-cost Counselling ● Advocacy ● International Partnership● Earth Awareness

Some of the staff of Youth Work Tipperary who are participating in a SHEP four day in-company training

programme on reflective practice and organisational learning – Cashel, January 2019

Counselling for Asylum Seekers Progress is being made with the development of the counselling for asylum seekers initiative which was presented at the last Coiscéim Counsellors’ gathering in December. The name given to this aspect of the Coiscéim programme is now called Asylum Seekers Counselling (ASC). Any Counsellors who are interested in becoming involved or indeed anyone who feels that they may have particular experience to offer (admin or other) please feel free to contact Nuala or Pat in Coiscéim.

Healthy Ireland - exploring possibilities to bring SHEP Training to new areas The Management Committee agreed in February that the Project is committed to allowing the work to grow organically and incrementally in response to emerging needs, including in new geographic areas. We are now in active discussion with Healthy Ireland personnel in Limerick, Clare and Tipperary to commence a small-scale regional project to offer SHEP short courses later in this year in parts of Clare (e.g. Shannon and Kilrush) and North Tipperary, as well as with existing partners in County Limerick. Such a conversation is possible now because we have a group of new SHEP Tutors based in Limerick Region. This is potentially a quite important development.

Branding & Promotion The Management Committee has agreed that we need to look at new options for how we brand both SHEP and the SHEP training programme. Some of the feedback we have, particularly from new areas where SHEP is not known well, is that there needs to be a stronger branding of the organisation and the training programmes we offer. We have agreed to do some work on this and to avail of the offer of some pro-bono support from a design company. We look forward to getting your input over the coming months.

SHEP NUACHT - #38 (March 2019)

Training & Development ● Low-cost Counselling ● Advocacy ● International Partnership● Earth Awareness

SHEP Reflective Practice – now in Limerick. We are pleased to announce that a SHEP Reflective Practice Training group has started for the first time in Limerick City. The facilitators are Liam McCarthy and Marie O’Flynn. There are now eight reflective practice groups now running across four counties.

Cork ‘Life Long Learning Festival’ Talk on Nepal & Sahakarmi Samaj. A talk on Nepal and the work of Sahakarmi Samaj will take place on Wednesday, April 17th at the SHEP Ballincollig Training Centre, in Ballincollig, as part of Cork’s Life Long Learning Festival. All welcome – but booking appreciated: [email protected]

Proposed NEPAL Learning Visit – November 2020 Our partner in Nepal, Sahakarmi Samaj, have kindly extended an invitation to us to bring a group to Nepal in November 2020 on an International Learning Visit. We are proposing that the visit be part of a broader programme of learning about Nepal and the work of Sahakarmi Samaj, that would start in April/May 2020. If you are interested in participating in the programme and would like more information (such as costs, which will be significant, and timeframes etc.) please email [email protected]. An information session of the work of Sahakarmi Samaj (which is open to everyone, not just those interested in the Learning Visit), which will include information about the proposed visit, will take place on Wednesday, April 17th at 7pm in Training Room 3 at the SHEP office in Ballincollig. Everyone welcome: and it would be helpful to let us know you are coming: RSVP - Aleksandra. [email protected].

SHEP Graduates who recently completed the QQI

Level 6 Group Work Theory & Practice Programme in SHEP recently

Some of those in attendance at the SafeTALK training for SHEP Practitioners which took place last

November.

Independent Advocacy Gathering 2019 “Our Voices, Our Choices!”

Wednesday 27th March 2019. Oriel House Hotel Ballincollig Cork.

Booking: Sarah: 087 9288762; email: [email protected] Places are limited. Book by March 20th 2019.

Speakers : Aine Flynn: Director of Decision Support Service and Cope Foundation Advocacy Council

SHEP NUACHT - #38 (March 2019)

Training & Development ● Low-cost Counselling ● Advocacy ● International Partnership● Earth Awareness

AONTAS SEMINAR Liam McCarthy will give a presentation on ‘The Complexity of Community Education Funding’ to the International Women’s Day Policy Event in Dublin on 8th March organised by AONTAS.

SHEP Earth Aware – Up-coming Talks

Re-membering Water Orla O'Donovan at SHEP Ballincollig on Friday March 29 at 7.30pm.

Climate Change and Health, a Call to Action. Dr Christie Godsmark at SHEP, Ballincollig on Friday April 26 at 7.30.

The Bride Project, increasing Biodiversity on intensive farmland. Tony Nagle on Friday May 24 at 7.30pm at SHEP Ballincollig.

Join us for the climate change rally on Friday March 15th at 12pm outside the City Hall.

Some of the participants at the second session of the Intercultural Dialogue programme in Cork on February 12th, with co-facilitators Sam Afolabi and Vera Stojanovic. This is a new collaboration involving SHEP, Cork City

Partnership, CESCA, New Communities Partnership and Cork City of Sanctuary.

Erasmus Plus (Spain Training Programme) The second programme visit, as part of our Erasmus Plus KA1 Partnership (Outreach, Guidance and Motivation of Adult Learners), takes place in early March, to Spain. Our Spanish partner - CPEPA

Miguel Hernández- is a state-run Community College in Huesca in Northern Spain. SHEP will host the four partner organisations for a three-day training programme in April 2020.

SHEP NUACHT - #38 (March 2019)

Training & Development ● Low-cost Counselling ● Advocacy ● International Partnership● Earth Awareness

An Erasmus ‘Sharing the Learning’ Session for SHEP Personal Development Facilitators which took place in last November.

Ag Eisteacht launches 2019 ABLE open courses

Due to high demand from practitioners across all healthcare and social care disciplines, Ag Eisteacht is holding a second open ABLE training course in Cork this May. Designed to support Ireland’s frontline health and social care practitioners, Ag Eisteacht’s CPD approved, evidence-based ABLE training helps practitioners to build more responsive relationships with clients. The ABLE course will run in Cork. Cork: Northridge House, Blackrock on May 14th, 28th & 29th. Book here. A limited number of Early Bird places are available at a reduced rate via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/3-day-able-training-may-14th-28th-29th-tickets-56415063975. For further information, please contact Ag Eisteacht on Tel: 021 4536556 or email: [email protected].

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