This three-day training shows you how to integrate practices of meditation, mindfulness and compassion into any healthcare situation, giving long lasting benefit to yourself and those in your care.

May 13th -15th 2011 | 10am Friday to 4pm Sunday

Dzogchen Beara Retreat Centre, Garranes, Allihies, West Cork, Ireland | Google map

With Rosamund Oliver and Alvina Cassidy .

295 euro | Concession: 255 euro | Fee includes lunch and evening meals on Saturday and lunch on Sunday.

Faculty

Rosamund Oliver, BA, Dip Psych, ECP, worked for many years as a UKCP registered psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. Her public healthcare work includes NHS psychiatry with the elderly bereaved, nurse education at St Joseph’s Hospice, London and co-creating a prison meditation project. She held a series of Buddhist psychotherapy seminars in South Africa. She is an international training manager and has regularly been invited to give professional trainings on behalf of Rigpa’s Spiritual Care Education Programme. She has been a student of Sogyal Rinpoche since 1981.

Alvina Cassidy B.A (Hons) Psych/Soc, Cert in Counselling (CCPE, London), Cert in Bereavement Counselling, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, has been a student of Sogyal Rinpoche since 1993 and was the National Coordinator of Rigpa’s Spiritual Care Education Programme in Ireland. She has co facilitated events and trainings on Loss and Bereavement, Living with Illness and Deep Listening. Alvina is a Rigpa Instructor and Spiritual Care Facilitator.