Mindfulness-Based Health and Social Care Programme - HSCP Funded

Details

Online - weekly for 6 weeks starting on Tuesday 29 October 

• 29th October - all times 6-7.30pm
• 5th November  
• 12th November 
• 19th November
• 26th November
• 3rd December  

Single weekly sessions will be 1.5 hours in duration from 6-7.30pm each week. Weekly sessions will be facilitated online on MSTeams by Dr. Alan Maddock.

Background

The Mindfulness-based Health and Social Care (MBHSC) group programme is a unique mindfulness-based programme which focusses on improving the self-care and practice of health and social care professionals. MBHSC is a theory and evidence-informed programme which focusses on reducing stress, emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation of service users/patients, improving well-being and a range of practice skills and competencies. 

Programme structure

Each session will adhere to a standardised protocol and will cover health and social care practice exercises and topics which were examined within the context of mindfulness.

The course structure will consist of:

• Week 1: Introduction to mindfulness: theory and practice.
• Week 2: Mindfulness for health and social care practice: Stress, the thinking process, avoidant coping, and decentering.
• Week 3: Approach coping: Attachment, aversion, negative thinking, and approach coping.
• Week 4: Acceptance – the thinking process, approach coping, and staying present with service users/patients.
• Week 5: Self-Compassion – the thinking process, approach coping, and staying present with service users/patients.
• Week 6: Embedding mindfulness in our everyday lives and practice.

Each session will introduce different mindfulness-based practices (e.g. mindful body scanning, mindful yoga) and psychoeducation on the potential role that mindfulness could play in our self-care, and professional practice. Participants will be provided with psychoeducation on practical ways in which to apply the experiential learning attained from these practices when confronted with stressful personal and/or practice situations. The development of mindfulness is predicated upon regular and repeated practice, thus participants will be requested to engage in daily mindfulness-based homework exercises for 20 minutes per day, for 6 out of the 7 days, between sessions.  Each session will include practice role plays and discussion. This will allow participants to have an opportunity to apply their evolving experiential learning to a practice case context.

Facilitator

Dr. Maddock is professionally qualified social worker who specialised in mental health social work, and is currently a Lecturer in Psychology. Dr. Maddock developed the MBHSC programme, is a trained mindfulness facilitator, and has over 10 years mindfulness meditation experience.

APPLY: 15 Aug - 30 Sept.

Offers are based off caseload and service needs

HSCP Funded CPD opportunities are open to all HSE funded HSCP regardless of membership with the professional body

Applications close on Mon. 30 September at Midday

DATA SHARING: This event is partly online and therefore it will be necessary to share your email address with the facilitator.

ISCP stores data on an encrypted device and will not share data with any other organisation