Louise Tyrrell

Louise Tyrrell is a Wellness Mentor who helps hard working women who are busy and burdened by the stress and strain of modern living. Even though they’re clever enough to know they need to slow down and take care of themselves, they just can’t seem to find the time. Louise shares simple strategies and skills that you can sprinkle through your day even if you are the busiest person on the planet! These tried and tested techniques will improve overall wellbeing so that you wake with energy and enthusiasm to enjoy every day, feeling calm confident and in control.

In her 20’s, while recovering from a car accident, Louise became very interested in a holistic approach to health. “Even though I was feeling utterly self-conscious and completely out of condition, I pushed through the self-doubt and plucked up the courage to attend my very first Yoga class, and that was the day my life changed”, she says. Fortunate to make a full recovery and no-longer needing the surgery that was planned, she began her studies in Yoga, Psychotherapy, Stress Management, Meditation, Mindfulness and Holistic Healthy Eating.

Since setting up one of the first Holistic Therapy Centres in Ireland in 1999 she has helped hundreds of individuals, small businesses, large companies and community groups.  Her work has been featured on RTE television, local radio and in the Irish Times Health Supplement.

Louise recognises how important self-knowledge and self-care are for vibrant health and wellbeing.  With a wealth of personal and professional experience, a passion for helping others and a calm, caring nature she will help you to change the course of your health so that you can restore balance and harmony to live a full and happy life.

You can get in touch with Louise over at her Facebook page here. 

Catherine Dunphy

Catherine Dunphy is the creator and MD of the dynamic music programme ‘The Magic of Music.’ A qualified and experienced teacher at both primary and secondary level,  Catherine has dedicated her career for the last 22 years to bringing music to as many people, old and young, as possible in a fun and accessible manner.  During this time Catherine has also worn the hat of a stage performer, an events manager and corporate team builder, a mother and now a busy entrepreneur.

Weekly she works with over 1,000 children nationwide from 4yrs to 18yrs across a wide range of intellectual and emotional needs and varied socio economic backgrounds. The common ground between everyone, is the natural ability to relate to music. This powerful tool can be harnessed and used for healing, de stressing, instilling compassion/acceptance/happiness and generally dealing better with the day to day events in each of our lives.

The programme has been met with great success in all the schools, clubs and companies that Catherine has brought it into. She believes that in the world we live in today, music can be that effortless way to the path into the inner self and bring a knowing of oneself that will ultimately lead to a recognition of ones own potential and ability for happiness.

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato

Pauline Rohdich

Pauline Rohdich is an Advanced RTT Clinical Hypnotherapist, Spiritual Life Coach, Happy For No Reason Trainer, Yoga & Meditation Teacher. 

She is the creator of Just Pause, a personal development business with a mission to remind you that you have the power to change your life and improve your happiness, which she teaches at her Say YES to Happiness Seminars around Ireland.

She works from her home in Galway, where she has her own yoga studio and private therapy practice and thanks to technology, she can facilitate clients from around the world.

Growing up, Pauline always had a strong connection to the mystical and sensed there was so much more to understand about God and spirituality than what she had been exposed to in her strict Catholic upbringing. Her background has seen her as a Garda, Air Hostess and entrepreneur in a variety of small businesses. However, her deepest desire has always been to help people become the best they can be and a major shift in direction began in her mid-thirties.

Following the first of four miscarriages, she found Reiki and energy healing and became a Reiki Master and Angel guidance practitioner. In 2008, she trained as a yoga and meditation teacher with Deepak Chopra and ran her own holistic centre in Tuam, Galway for just over three years. She since qualified as a life coach with a strong leaning towards spiritual development.

In 2017, having returned from Australia, she trained with the UK’s top therapist, Marisa Peer as an RTT Hypnotherapist, helping clients get to the root of their emotional pain and break free. She teaches her clients to collaborate with their mind so, as to create what they really want.

Recently, Pauline has trained with Marci Shimoff as a Happy For No Reason Trainer, teaching the principles of becoming happy from the inside out. 

Additionally, she runs workshops and retreats and speaks to corporate groups on the power of the mind and the importance of self-love and inner peace.

Pauline is committed to continual learning and self-improvement and is passionate about sharing her knowledge in a fun, inspirational and interactive way.

For more information visit her website or find out more information on her Say Yes to Happiness seminars 

Danielle Serpico

Danielle Serpico is a half Irish half Italian woman who grew up in Rome and then came back to Ireland at the age of ten when her parents divorced. She now lives nestled under the safety of the Blackstairs mountains in County Wexford with her partner, two new kittens and a crazy Labrador called Macchiato, with a black mark on his neck.

With an entrepreneurial background and three restaurants under her belt as well as a blackbelt around her waist, in 2009 her life changed again with her businesses going bust in the recession.

This is when her interest in self-development really started and she went on a journey of self-exploration leading her to become a Mind Coach.

“Danielle Serpico is now a motivational Speaker and NLP Trainer, Radio Broadcaster with her weekly show MindMatters on Dublin City Fm and the Author of The BlackBelt MasterMind book. As a blackbelt and European Karate Champion she found her ‘fight’ to get back up after major set backs ten years ago and now speaks regularly on how to overcome adversity and have a mindset for success and happiness.”

Anne Brannick

Anne Brannick is the outgoing chairperson of the Irish Association of Relationship Mentors. She is a fully accredited relationship mentor with the governing body IARM. www.iarm.ie.She gives talks and workshops on relationship with self and parenting issues in schools, community and workplaces. Her practice for one to one mentoring is in Ballybrack and SOBE Greystones Ireland.. All of Anne’s work has a co-creational and educatioal component to it that helps individuals and parents understand the psychosocial dynamics within the family, community and workplace. Thus she facilitates adults to better understand their relationship with self and others, to understand what needs may be unconscious for us and to communicate those hidden needs in a conscious way. Anne has completed a postgraduate diploma with Dr Tony Humphreys in Co-creational Psychotherapy and is in continuous shared vision practice with Dr Humphreys.

Joseph McGuire

Having practiced, taught and honed his techniques over a period of more than 30 years Joseph has developed a mastery of observational skills. He uses them to add an extra degree of clarity and accuracy to his client’s decision making when choosing candidates for senior level recruitment or promotion. He is also in demand for his assistance in negotiations, and for group training in a wide range of sectors including Healthcare, Coaching and HR. 

Recent assignments include: 

• Profiling CEO candidates in the interview process for 3Sixty Financial Services 

• Assessed candidates in the interview process for accountant role in Europa Strategic Partners 

• Evaluated candidates for international management roles for DSBS (Australia) 

In his profiling Joseph provides clear, detailed and accurate insights into personality, behaviour style, communication patterns, stress triggers and responses and more, of the individuals being profiled. This facilitates his clients in making clear decisions as to the best fit for their organization and culture. He is highly experienced in the role of impartial and unbiased observer, enabling interviewers to focus on asking questions specifically role related. 

His group work is always interactive, ensuring participants gain direct, practical real-world experience of the skills and information being presented. Clarity is a keynote of his approach in supporting those present to absorb the material in the most effective manner. 

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said”– Peter Drucker

Jocelyn Cunningham

Jocelyn Cunningham is on a mission to inspire people to enhance their overall wellbeing through exercising a good self-care regime. She believes in positive thinking, loving kindness, self compassion, realising and appreciating the present moment, connection with others, the power of relationship, the importance of friendship, as well as, the redemptive aspect of nature. Each of these creates an effective start of a journey to genuine and lasting empowerment of the self.

Jocelyn is the proprietor of Dynamic Concepts & Wellbeing, a company offering a variety of services ranging from consultancy to workshop facilitation.  She is a psychotherapist, and also currently helping ‘Let’s Get Talking’ affordable counselling centres to become more established and also to help raise funding to continue to offer such services in the mental health sector. Jocelyn is an author with Book Hub Publishing having contributed chapters to their Mental Health for Millennials series volumes 2 and 3. Her most recent chapter is titled ‘Finding that balance for your wellbeing’. She is an established speaker, having presented at various regional and national workshops on a range of mental health topics such as – ‘Happiness is a state of mind’, ‘Prone to panic & accustomed to anxiety’.  She is an Influencer on many social media platforms, known best for her morning affirmations to start off the day on a positive note. Jocelyn is currently in discussions with her Publisher in relation to having her first book published.

Raven Keyes

Raven Keyes is a Reiki master teacher, certified hypnotherapist and guided meditation maven.

She was the first to bring Reiki into the operating room of Dr. Mehmet C. Oz and continues to work with doctors at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital providing Reiki to patients before, during and after surgeries. The years of working in the OR have resulted in a new training program she offers to Reiki Masters called Medical Reiki ™ in which she teaches how to bring Reiki safely and unobtrusively into an operating room to work with a surgical team. In the world of professional sports, Raven has introduced Reiki to athletes in the NFL and NBA. 

Featured in national magazines such as “Vogue” and “W,” she was named “Best Reiki Master in New York” by New York Magazine and was televised as “New Yorker of the Week” on NY-1 for providing volunteer Reiki services for 8 ½ months after 9/11.

Raven’s award winning book, “The Healing Power of Reiki” is an Amazon best seller. She is currently offering Reiki training and Medical Reiki ™ training in New York City and throughout the world.

Mary Finn

Mary Finn has worked in the disability sector for 17 years in a variety of roles and understands the challenges posed to employers and employees when faced with the uncertainty of illness or injury.  Her passion for this work was initially sparked during the pilot program she was involved in but her desire to ensure continuity of service was so strong that it led to her creating Connect4Work. Through this service she offers a professional cost-effective service to organizations through careful planning and preparation with a work focused approach concentrating on a persons’ ability and minimizing the impact of their absence in the workplace.

Connect4Work supports organizations to create a culture of well-being, openness and inclusion for all employees by being proactive toward positive mental health through planning the return to work of employees absent through illness, injury or other reasons in a safe and sustainable manner.

Navigating the return to work process can be difficult with a lot of unknowns, however by partnering with Connect4Work, Mary provides an audit trail ensuring organizations can identify the risk posed by the absence, address barriers and plan for reasonable accommodations whilst meeting obligations to organizational corporate social responsibility and reduce cost.

She firmly believes, what ever the reason for the absence, the longer people are away from work, the more they begin to worry about it and what is going on there in their absence, and of course this has an impact on a persons mental health.  She helps all parties realise that a pathway back to work after an illness/injury related absence is possible, the process just needs somebody to lay that course and support others along it.

Mary Finn has also completed the following training – ASIST and ASIST Tune Up, Mental Health First Aid, SafeTalk – Suicide Alertness for Everyone.

Judith Quin

Judith is an international public speaker, author of ‘Stop Should-ing. Start Wanting.’ and co-author of international #1 best-sellers ‘Pay It Forward Series: Notes To My Younger Self, Vo.2’ and ‘Transformation Lessons’, she is also a member of the Association of Transformational Leaders of Europe.

Combining her skills as a classically trained actress, voice-vibration sound healer, massage therapist, and qualified life-coach, Judith creates powerful results.  She is passionate about transforming lives through liberating voices by exploring the brain/body/breath/voice-vibration connection.

Finding your true voice, and the confidence to use it, can change lives.  If you want to make a difference in your life, or the life of those around you, if you are ready to step up or speak up, then it’s time to embody your voice. Release old energetic beliefs and blocks, re-connect to who you really are. If you want to make ripples in your world, well words make waves, so it’s time to explore the power of Your Whole Voice.

Find out more: www.yourwholevoice.com
On social media follow @yourwholevoice
Connect on Linkedin – JudithQuinVocalConfidence

Derek O Kelly

Derek O Kelly is a Wellbeing & Performance coach. He is the author of a “Quick Start Guide to Self Care & Wellbeing”, and founder of the Winning Minds Movement – a social initiative  which improves wellbeing and performance in people, companies and organisations.

He describes himself as an educational distiller, and is the world’s first Mental Wellbeing Explorer, dedicating himself to the research and application of best practice in mental and emotional wellbeing.

Derek is also director and award winning educator at The Waverley Academy, where he has helped of over 8,000 students develop careers and businesses through building their confidence and self-esteem.

He is passionate about coaching, speaking –writing, researching, science communication, and simplifying complicated information so people and companies can realise their true potential.

He is a qualified teacher, sports psychologist & mental wellbeing coach – and has spent the past twenty years researching the areas of educational psychology, human potential, positive psychology, leadership, performance and personal empowerment.

He is currently studying applied neuroscience and brain health from The Neuroscience Academy Australia.

Derek delivers talks and workshops – and coaches companies, organisations and people  towards wellbeing & performance.

His core belief is: Education Empowers

You can book Derek for talks, workshops or coaching at dokelly33@gmail.com

And find out more about Winning Minds Movement here

You can also find him on Twitter and LinkedIn

Liz Valloor

Liz Valloor is a former Deputy Principal of a Deis 1 School and mother of four adult children.    In 1994, she became aware that we too are programmed. We download apps, beliefs unquestioned by our experiences from childhood. Her big question was “Who AM I behind
my mask”.

Working with children she realised how effortless it is to hand down our beliefs and fears to the next generation and so her relationship to her own children and her pupils changed. Liz is the author of Taking Flight- The Caged Bird and has co-authored We Summit Together.
She has facilitated workshops and retreats in the USA, India, New Zealand and Ireland. She is the presenter of the Conscious Living Show on Dublincityfm.

Dolores Andrew-Gavin

Dolores  Andrew-Gavin is an Author, Emotional Intelligence Practitioner, Empowerment Coach, EFT and Medical Reiki Master, Soul Care Practitioner, Founder of the Emotional and Mental Health Summit and Mum!

Dolores has 9 years experience studying and working in the emotional realm. She has written 2 children’s mythological story books and has an emotional intelligence website for children which helps them understand their feelings and navigate their emotions.

She is also a motivational speaker and has spoken at events nationwide including her latest talk on Stepping into Your Personal Power at the Cork Mind Body & Soul Experience.   She is a Clarity Coach and helps female entrepreneurs step into their personal power by discovering the limiting beliefs that keep them stuck and instead develop empowering beliefs.  She has an on line programme called Business Clarity Mapping.

She is also a Master EFT Practitioner having studied with Dr. Silvia Hartman and has taught EFT at her children’s workshops she runs with young people in schools and clubs.

She also practices as a therapist working with people on line and in person.  Her therapies include soul care and Reiki.  She also studied Medical Reiki with Raven Keyes International Reiki Master.

She has also developed an on line self paced chakra course, full details at her website.

She is also the founder of IrishHealthHour a global on line health and wellness community.

Jen Hogan

Hi I’m Jen Hogan and I’m mum to seven children ranging in age from 3 to 17. I’m also an author, journalist, columnist. broadcast media contributor, Friends of breastfeeding Journalist of the year 2018, and general do-er of stuff around the house. It’s a hectic life, but one I know I’m lucky to lead.

I’m passionate about all things parenting and about supporting mums and dads on the rollercoaster that is parenthood. When I’m not rambling or sharing my musings on life and the issues that affect parents and families in 2019 at my blog, you can generally find me rambling instead in the Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Irish Independent or Easy Parenting magazine. You’ll also often catch me on the radio or the tellybox – I have a lot of thoughts to share!!

And I’d love to hear your thoughts on these issues too  – so join me here or on my social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and let’s have the chats about the things that affect us as parents, as families and as people too.

Fran Buckley & Elva Glynn

The Paint Your Bump campaign #pyb2019 is an innovative voluntary Maternal Mental Health awareness campaign in Ireland set up by mothers Fran Buckley & Elva Glynn. Elva and Fran have backgrounds in Psychotherapy and the Paint Your Bump campaign hopes to raise nationwide awareness of maternal mental health and the issues that may arise during the transition from pregnancy to early motherhood. This is done in a creative and memorable way … painting your bump!

Painting your bump is an experience for mothers to celebrate their pregnancy and in the process think about their maternal mental health and how they nurture it. We encourage mothers to paint their bumps on World Maternal Mental Health Day each year and post their bumps with the #pyb2019. Our hope is to create social change and dispel myths that the transition from womanhood to motherhood is effortless, easy & challenge free. We are busting myths on our social media channels each Tuesday in the run-up to the Paint Your Bump events. We also hope to prompt a national conversation about what many women may face during the transition to motherhood with the aim to promote and encourage support and self-care for maternal mental health and wellness.

On  May 1st 2019 we have events running nationally that are a fun way for mums to paint their bumps, meet up and chat about their maternal mental health. These events are run by amazing woman who are running these events voluntarily. Details of all events are on our Facebook and Instagram pages. Women can contact those that are running the events to book their slot on the day. Some events are happening in the lead up to May 1st also.

Elva from Paint Your Bump says “I would hope that our campaign can give mothers permission to have real conversations about becoming a mother and in turn support one another in this often rocky transition. I would also hope that mothers will be empowered to engage in self care and in turn take care of their maternal mental health”.

Fran from Paint Your Bump says ‘’I hope that our campaign  will help women feel less alone on their journey to motherhood and create a mindset amongst all mums that self care is important on this often challenging  transition to motherhood & beyond. My wish is mums go gentle with themselves be the ‘good enough mother’ as there is no such thing as a perfect mother”

Paint Your Bump was set up 3 years ago by Fran and Elva. Through their professional and personal experiences, they noticed a need for woman to speak openly about their experiences of motherhood particularly the transition to being a mother. They both feel that this is an exceptionally vulnerable time for woman and that support and self-care is key to positive mental health in this time. They hope that as many women as possible can be reached with the campaign and that they can affect social change for the mothers of the future.  We believe by creating more awareness around the expectations of pregnancy birth & beyond v’s the reality’s of same is vital.

We hope all the woman who paint their bumps have a fun and memorable experience, we know that we did when we painted our bumps.

Where can you find us?

Website

https://paintyourbumpday.wordpress.com/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/Paintyourbumpday/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/maternalmhwawareness

Twitter

Maternal MH @maternalmh

Fiona Forman

Fiona Forman is an author, primary school teacher and well-being in schools facilitator and trainer. She holds an M. Sc. in Applied Positive Psychology, which is the science of well-being. She is the co-author of the Weaving Well-Being programme, a positive mental health series for children that is now in use in over 60% of Irish Primary Schools and which will shortly be launched in Australia. She is passionate about placing well-being at the heart of school life and empowering teachers, parents and children to understand and enhance their own mental health.

Fiona has spoken on this subject at many conferences and is available to deliver talks, workshops and training. She can be contacted at fiona.forman@gmail.com.

For more information on the Weaving Well-Being programme, please see www.otb.ie/wwb.

Dr. Darria Long Gillespie

Dr. Darria is a national spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians and writes “The Busy Woman’s Guide to Health…and Sanity” for The Huffington Post, Sharecare.com, and The Doctor Oz Blog. She also hosts of Sharecare’s weekly “Ask Dr. Darria” Facebook Live.

She has done interviews with Fox News, CNN and has also appeared on the Dr. Oz show. You can check out her website for more details of her TV appearances.

Dr. Darria tells us how she developed “life hacks” to support her with her health issues and everyday life situations and now she shares them with us in her her book Mom Hacks.  Mom Hacks is not a book just for moms, it contains lots of, in fact 100+ ways we can use these life hacks to be unstoppable! The book is divided into sections based on nutrition, mindset etc so you can use it as a reference for where you want support at any stage of your life!

Barbara Brennan

Barbara Brennan is an artist, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a friend, a suicide survivor, and an expert by experience in Recovery and Wellness.

She is also a public speaker and facilitator who has worked with See Change the National Stigma Reduction Partnership since 2009 and took over managing the project this year.
In the last ten years she has presented and facilitated all over the country to all kinds of groups and organisations, spoken on National radio and Newspapers  and appeared on TV to stir conversations – because we all have Mental Health.

Her passion comes from her lived life experience, and her desire to bring the message of Hope and share the knowledge that people who have struggled with their Mental Health can and DO recover.  Barbara believes strongly in personal responsibility and empowering people to achieve their potential, and that we all need to work together to end mental health stigma.

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