The School of Nursing and Midwifery has issues a call for abstracts on the theme of ‘Mental health and recovery’.
https://nursing-midwifery.tcd.ie/events-conferences/THEconference2020/call-for-abstracts.php
On behalf of Imelda Noone (on Term Time) Company Secretary IIMHN:
Notification is served of the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing, Annual General Meeting for Wednesday 8th October 2019 at 14.00 pm. in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Room 1.24. A request is issued for Agenda items to be submitted to secretary@iimhn.ie.
Closing date for submissions Wednesday 1st October 2019.
The ‘Being Me’ Consortium, an EU funded project looking at supporting the social inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) older people who use healthcare and wellbeing services, has launched best practice principles on developing LGBT cultural competence in health and social care education. The document outlines principles regarding inclusive education for older LGBT people within educational curricula.
You can download the guidelines here.
The Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing annual conference due to take place in the School of Nursing and Midwifery University of Limerick on Thursday May 16th and Friday May 17th 2019 is being re-scheduled to later in the year.
We will notify members of the re-scheduled date and venue as soon as we confirm them.
It is likely that the conference will re-locate to a Dublin based venue
The School of Nursing and Human Sciences, DCU has announces it’s forthcoming series of public lectures for 2019. The events are open to the public and are free. They run from 7pm-8.30pm on the following dates.
6th March
Living with suicide and suicide related behaviours – responding and making sense
Evelyn Gordon
13th March
The Dublin North, North East Recovery College – Our story so far: Creating an inclusive culture of mental health recovery in the community
John Kelly
20th March
Perfectionism: A double edged sword
Rosaleen McElvaney
27th March
Recovery in the context of mental health
Siobhan Russell
Martha Griffin
3rd April
Living well with the consequences of cancer
Simon Dunne
10th April
Apps, online programmes and other digital re-sources to improve mental well-being
Manuela Ascari
17th April
The role of nutrition in health and wellbeing
Mary Rose Sweeney
The IIMHN is pleased to announce its programme for practice development for 2018/2019 in association with the Office of Nursing and Midwifery Services Director. This year we plan to offer a wide range of workshops on working with voices, paranoia, the Maastricht Interview and voice dialogue. The workshops will be facilitated by Peter Bullimore, Elisabeth Svanholmer & Rufus May, who are leaders in these areas.
The workshops will be held nationwide with the support of the Schools of Nursing in DCU, UCD, UCC, Limerick, Castlebar and NUIG. These workshops will encompass novice, intermediate and advanced level techniques in facilitation of the processes involved. To book a place on one of these workshops please email or phone the designated contact person for the workshop in the list below.
This year the workshops will be delivered by Peter Bullimore in voices awareness training, hearing voices group facilitation and advanced facilitation techniques, the IIMHN will continue the voice dialogue workshops with Elisabeth Svanholmer & Rufus May.
To supplement the hearing voices workshops this year the IIMHN are again running a series of workshops on working with paranoia, delivered by Peter Bullimore founder of the Paranoia Network UK.
Peter Bullimore will deliver workshops on the use of the Maastricht Interview.
Please contact the relevant coordinator for an application form.
| Workshop | Facilitator | Location | Contact person | |
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| 2-DAY HEARING VOICES FACILITATION | PETER BULLIMORE | DCU: 6th & 7th Dec 2018 | Mary Farrelly | BOOKED OUT |
| UCC: 9th & 10th January 2019 | Harry Gijbels | H.Gijbels@ucc.ie | ||
| UCD: 12th & 13th Feb | Ann Sheridan | ann.sheridan@ucd.ie | ||
| NUIG: 29th & 30th January 2019 | Siobhan Smith | siobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie | ||
| Limerick: 26th & 27th March 2019 | Teresa Touhy | TTUOHY@tcd.ie | ||
| Castlebar: 16th & 17th Jan 2019 | Sylvia Campbell | Sylvia.Campbell@hse.ie | ||
| ONE DAY FOLLOW UP | PETER BULLIMORE | DCU: 2nd April 2019 | Mary Farrelly | mary.farrelly@dcu.ie |
| UCD: 12th April 2019 | Ann Sheridan | ann.sheridan@ucd.ie | ||
| Northwest: 7th May 2019 | Sylvia Campbell | Sylvia.Campbell@hse.ie | ||
| Limerick: 27th May 2019 | Teresa Touhy | TTUOHY@tcd.ie | ||
| UCC: 29th May 2019 | Harry Gijbels | H.Gijbels@ucc.ie | ||
| NUIG: 31 May 2019 | Siobhan Smith | siobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie | ||
| 2-DAY MAASTRICHT INTERVIEW | PETER BULLIMORE | NUIG: 12th & 13th March 2019 | Siobhan Smith | siobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie |
| Limerick: 26th & 27th June 2019 | Teresa Touhy | TTUOHY@tcd.ie | ||
| Castlebar: 8th & 9th May 2019 | Sylvia Campbell | Sylvia.Campbell@hse.ie | ||
| UCC: 15th & 16th May 2019 | Harry Gijbels | H.Gijbels@ucc.ie | ||
| UCD: 21st & 22nd May 2019 | Ann Sheridan | ann.sheridan@ucd.ie | ||
| 1-DAY PARANOIA | PETER BULLIMORE | NUIG: 14th March 2019 | Siobhan Smith | siobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie |
| Limerick: 28th June 2019 | Teresa Touhy | TTUOHY@tcd.ie | ||
| Castlebar: 10th May 2019 | Sylvia Campbell | Sylvia.Campbell@hse.ie | ||
| UCC: 17th May 2019 | Harry Gijbels | H.Gijbels@ucc.ie | ||
| UCD: 23rd May 2019 | Ann Sheridan | ann.sheridan@ucd.ie | ||
| 2-DAY VOICE DIALOGUE | RUFUS MAY AND ELIZABETH SVANHOMER | DCU: 1st & 2nd April 2019 | Mary Farrelly | mary.farrelly@dcu.ie |
| UCC: 4th & 5th April 2019 | Harry Gijbels | H.Gijbels@ucc.ie | ||
| Limerick: 25th & 26th April 2019 | Teresa Touhy | TTUOHY@tcd.ie | ||
| NUIG: 29th & 30th April 2019 | Siobhan Smith | siobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie | ||
| Castlebar: 17th & 18th June 2019 | Sylvia Campbell | Sylvia.Campbell@hse.ie |
The IIMHN is pleased to announce a TWO-DAY SKILLS’ BASED WORKSHOP (6th and 7th December 2018) with a FOLLOW-UP DAY (1st April 2019)
Venue: School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University
Funded by the Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit and the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing
Facilitator: Peter Bullimore, an internationally renowned voices and paranoia trainer
Background to the Workshop:
There are now a number of Hearing Voices Groups in Ireland (www.hearingvoicesnetworkireland.ie )
To continue the development of a network of Hearing Voices Groups, a 2-day training programme for people interested in becoming group facilitators is now again available. A follow-up 1 day workshop is also provided to provide support and guidance for those who have completed the training and are facilitating a group. Please note that you should be able to commit to both sets of workshops.
This is a free workshop, funded by the Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit (NMPDU) and organised by the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing (www.iimhn.ie ).
Aim of the Workshop:
A 2-day workshop for mental health staff and people with lived experience who want to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to facilitate a Hearing Voices Support Group. On completion of the workshop, participants will be expected to start a hearing voices group or co-facilitate an existing group. A 1-day follow-up workshop in April will provide support and guidance for those who have completed the training in their endeavours to set-up and facilitate groups.
Workshop Content:
This workshop is targeted primarily at mental health nurses, whose applications will be prioritised, but applications are also open to other mental health workers and people who experience voices, visions and paranoia.
At the first critical perspectives conference, in 2009, recovery principles and practices were debated and discussed with a considerable optimism about their potential to radically change mental health care. Now, with the conference in its 10th year, it is time to take another critical look at recovery and in particular the adoption of so-called strategies of inclusion (e.g. co-production, community engagement, and the employment of peer support workers) by mainstream institutions. The conference will consider whether such strategies have led to a recovery-focused mental health care where service users have choices, control and authority, or whether these strategies constitute an act of appropriation and co-option servicing primarily the interests of the mental health establishment.
| Lucy Costa is Deputy Executive Director of The Empowerment Council, an independent service user rights-based organization in Toronto Canada. She works as a community activist and advocate promoting the rights of mental health service users/survivors as well as encouraging critical analysis about service user inclusion in the mental health sector. She has written a number of articles and blogs, and is co-editor of a forthcoming book entitled, Madness, Violence and Power: A Radical Anthology | Lynne Friedli is a freelance researcher, with a special interest in the relationship between mental health and social justice. She has just completed research on the (mis) use of psychology in workfare with Hubbub at the Wellcome Collection. Lynne is also interested in the politics of strengths based discourse, the use of positive psychology in the ‘reification of ‘work’ and how these developments have come to dominate (or perhaps colonise) ideas about Recovery, as well as inspiring a resurgence of new forms of resistance to work. |
| Deirdre Lillis briefly experienced the force of the psychiatric response to her emotional distress in her early twenties. From there she took a path focusing on independent advocacy, facilitating service user/survivor involvement in the planning and delivering of mental health supports and services and supporting survivor led research. She is currently responsible for the Cork Advocacy Service available to people with disabilities and people using mental health services through the Social and Health Education Project (SHEP). | Helen Spandler is a Reader in Mental Health in the School of Social Work, Care and Community at the University of Central Lancashire. She is the author of numerous books and articles on mental health practice, policy & politics, including ‘Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement’ (2015). She is also Managing Editor of Asylum: the magazine for democratic psychiatry |
| Danny Taggart is a clinical psychologist and academic director on the clinical psychology program at the University of Essex. He is also a survivor of institutional childhood sexual abuse in the north of Ireland. Danny has published and spoken widely about his multiple perspectives on the subject of trauma and mental health in the hope of broadening debate about how mental health professionals can best respond to abuse survivors but more importantly to argue for involving survivors in policy, service and treatment development. | Jijian Voronka is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor, Canada. Using interdisciplinary critical theories, her research explores the consequences of mental health service user inclusion strategies in research and service delivery systems. She is currently working on a book “Troubling Inclusion: The value of mad labour” which offers a Mad Studies account of the politics of inclusion. |
Call for abstracts (oral presentations/workshops) of 45 minutes’ duration related to the conference theme and outlining its aims and intentions. Please submit (in Word- 250 words max) by 10 September 2018. Please also submit a brief bio (in Word – 150 words max). Email abstract and bio to l.sapouna@ucc.ie. Inquiries to h.gijbels@ucc.ie or l.sapouna@ucc.ie.
Registration details will be circulated in September 2018.
The Conference organisers are Harry Gijbels (retired), Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Lydia Sapouna, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland.
On behalf of Imelda Noone (on Term Time) Company Secretary IIMHN:
Notification is served of the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing, Annual General Meeting for Wednesday 17th October at 14.30 pm. in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Room 0.30.
The timetable for the IIMHN/COMMUNE Project Conference in DCU on the 17th and 18th May 2018 has been released.
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| Morning session
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Chair: Mary Farrelly
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| 09.00 – 09.00
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Registration and Coffee
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| 09.30 – 09.45 | Chair’s Opening Address: Mary Farrelly | ||||||||||
| 09.45 – 11.15
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Keynote: “Singing from the same songsheet? Managing differing perspectives in co-produced mental health nursing education”. Speakers: Brenda Happel and Julia Bocking
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| 11.15 – 11.45
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Coffee
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| 11.45-13.00
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Concurrent sessions – Chairs: Louise Doyle and Imelda Noone
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| 13.00-14.00
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Lunch and poster viewing
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| Afternoon session | Chair: Christina Larkin | ||||||||||
| 14.00-15.00
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“Experiences of co-produced education for Mental Health Nurses”. Speakers: Siobhan Russell, Martha Griffin, Catherine Stanton, Niamh Daly and Liam MacGabhann
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| 15.00-16.00
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49 North Street – Creating/Facilitating Alchemy in the Mental Health Services:
Our ethos is to create a space, a melting pot whereby learning, therapy alongside diversity flourish. It’s about taking risks, building on peoples’ strengths and sharing the load/power which is now seeing a recovery community thrive. The Claddagh Rogues are an example of this and will play live on the day! James O Flynn, Declan McCarthy, Kevin Shanahan, Tony Cotter, Peter Kearney and Susan Mc Menamin |
| 18th May 2018
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COMMUNE Workshop
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| 09.30 – 09.45
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Introduction to the day: Chair: Liam MacGabhann
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| 09.45-10.30
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Keynote: “Doing co-production like it says on the tin” Speakers: Dublin North, North East Recovery College
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| 10.30 – 10.50
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“COMMUNE – Embedding expertise by experience teaching into undergraduate nursing programmes” Speakers: Iceland & Finland
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| 10.50-11.20
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“What Service Users can contribute to mental health teaching on undergraduate nursing programmes” Speakers: Ireland UCC/DCU
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| 11.20-11.50
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Coffee
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| 11.50-12.20
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“Experts by Experience teaching on undergraduate nursing programmes” Speakers: EBE members
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| 12.20-12.50
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“Best Practice Guidelines for Co-Producing Course Content and Teaching on Undergraduate Nursing Programmes” Speakers: Norway & Netherlands |
| 12.50-13.20
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“Impact of experts by experience teaching into undergraduate nursing programmes: international findings” Speakers: Australia
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| 13.20 – 13.30
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Poster prizes close of conference
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| Lunch |
