Upcoming Healthcare & General Courses

  • Responding to Stress: MBSR Program

    24th Jan-13th March 2024 7-9.30pm

    Stress, nervousness, anxiety, overwhelm, acute or chronic illness, or having too much to do that relaxing is impossible'.

    Things can feel easier and steadier.

    With over four decades of research, this 8-week programme specifically supports you to explore stress, meditation and unhelpful thought patterns and assists you to respond & adapt to life stress in more helpful and more sustainable ways.

  • Resilience for Healthcare Communities

    February 2024. 1hr x 6 weekly sessions. Online (in person available at other dates)

    Healthcare workers are carrying Fatigue and Secondary Trauma on top of pandemic exhaustion, proliferation in documentation, technology, time & financial pressures.

    Self-care needs to be REAL, available ON THE SPOT (not after work) and based on evidence. At the heart of healthcare is compassion. Learn to give care to yourself at last.

  • Cabra Wetlands Mindfulness & Meditation

    20th March-10th April 7-8pm

    Inviting you to experience or re-experience Mindfulness & Meditation and learn more about the power of living mindfully.

    Classes are small (10-12 people) all-inclusive groups, where YOU are most welcome.

    Please do enquire with any and all questions and curiosities.

  • Mindfulness for Cancer

    Spring 2024

    'I needed something to sooth this mind of mine and gather up the reins of my life again'.

    Living with and beyond cancer. Learn to reduce distress by learning a different relationship to the difficult & unwanted experiences, being with them more gently even if we cannot change the experiences.

  • Online Monthly Meditation. Reconnect & strengthen your practice

    1st Monday each month 7.30-8pm on zoom. Come as you are, camera on or off, a quiet half hour. Be guided in a meditation practice by me.

  • Drop-in Mindfulness @UHL

    Every 4th Friday 10.30-11.30am

    ‘Come as you are, stay as long as you want’

    Drop-in Mindfulness meditation sessions at the Cancer Support Centre. For patients, family & staff.

Stress-Resilience

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MIndfulness

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Trauma Sensitive

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Awareness

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Courage

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Meet Difficulties

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Inner Strength

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Laughter

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Playfulness

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Self Belief

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Self Worth

Stress-Resilience 〰️ MIndfulness 〰️ Trauma Sensitive 〰️ Awareness 〰️ Courage 〰️ Meet Difficulties 〰️ Inner Strength 〰️ Laughter 〰️ Playfulness 〰️ Self Belief 〰️ Self Worth

May I have the courage today
To live the life I would love…
And waste my heart on fear no more.
— John O Donohue

Welcome to learning to care for yourself.

Life: contains adversity, illness, loss, aging and dying. But equally too laughter, preciousness, simplicity, connection and joy.

Stress: I offer evidence-based programs that support me, and to support you, to live with the stresses (and joys) of being a human.

Self-awareness: Welcome to you also, if your life path has led to a wish to change your way of living & working.

Mindfulness: can support us to suffer less, accepting the present- neither running from it or clinging to it .

Compassion: the mindfulness and caring inherent in compassion foster resilience, connectedness and action.

Kind Mind~Wise Heart: A strong mind without a kind heart struggles to be truly compassionate; a kind heart suffers without the wise mind to guide it.

 
 

Welcome to Kind Mind Ireland. I’m Hilary Smyth, I offer the information on the site freely & hope you’ll find it helpful, maybe inspiring.
Please do reach out if you’d like to talk to me, or read on in the ‘About’ section..