The Southern Regional Committee

Present a workshop entitled:

\" Awakening the self\"

Presenter Bio: Dr. Colm O Connor is a nationally recognised Family Psychologist, Couples Therapist, Domestic Violence Clinician and Writer. His most recent book \" The Courage to Love\" follows from his previous bestseller, \"The Courage to be Happy\". Colm has been Clinical Director of the Cork Marriage Counselling Centre for 20 years wher he has practiced as a clinician, researcher and supervisor. Dr. O Connor was founder of the Cork Domestic Violence Project in the early nineties and has been registered as a clinical psychologist and family therapy supervisor for many years. He was a co-founder of the Association of Agency-Based Counselling in Ireland and has served on the Board of Directors of the Family Support Agency. He strives to integrate psychological thinking with literary and psycho-spiritual resources.

Workshop Outline: As an exploration of human distress, this workshop prompts participants to think about themselves and their clients from the arresting and inspiring perspective of the human condition. Exploring themes of vulnerability and love the workshop shows how we seek resolution to the largest of human issues within the smallest of human activities. Imagination and endurance are revealed as heroic and essential responses to the human condition. The workshop hopes to reawaken imagination and encourage a reappraisal of one\'s self and work. Showing how the self can be elevated or degraded by how one sees one self, the workshop highlights key ideas and simple applications that are critical to human elevation and how one handles the stress and adversity of life.

Training Level: All levels

CPD certificates will be emailed to participants after attendance at the Workshop.