Alchemism NewsBlog

Resilience Clinic now in development

2007-07-03T23:06:00.000-07:00

The foundation is excited to announce, that in association with long time collaborator Sean Bay from The Bay Partnership, that we are hoping to open Ireland's first Resilience Clinic in Kilkenny in January 2008.

This exciting project is being established in response to the need for facilities which are low dependence but fast recovery and Sean, Paul and the Alchemism Faculty are working on the specifications for the building, which is 1 mile outside the medieval city of Kilkenny in TinnaKilly Park.

It is expected that we will be offering a 12 day programme which will include resilience programmes designed to enhance mind, body and spirit for people who need to restore their resilience which may be eroded due to life's pressures.

With a 165 bed nursing home located on the same grounds, the resilience clinic will have available at its doorstep all of the medical facilities required, but will offer a much more advanced resilience programme including coaching, educo gym body work, burnout prevention and recovery programmes, spirituality coaching, complimentary therapies and a host of "a la carte" resilience recovery programmes..

After 12 days, there is no doubt that you will find your phoenix

Watch this space for more news !

Alchemism Foundation now offering PhD's by Explication

2007-07-03T23:02:00.001-07:00

The foundation is delighted to announce that in association with the Inetrnational Management Centres Association http://www.imcassociation.edu/imc/ that we are launching our first doctorate programme in Ireland.

Our first event is an evening seminar with the head of the faculty Dr. Joanna Kozubska on July 30th in Dublin.

Detailed will be posted as soon as they are finalised

New Additions to the Faculty - July 2007

2007-07-03T22:56:00.000-07:00

The foundation is delighted to announce the latest additions to the faculty:

Paula Addison - Head of Complimentary Therapies

Ethel Gartland - Head of PsychoDrama

Stephen Dargan - Head of Spirituality Coaching

Sergio Vilchez - Head of Philosophy Coaching

Olivia McEvoy - Head of Youth Leadership Programmes

LivingSix Presentation Now Available !

2007-07-03T22:25:00.001-07:00

The Alchemism Foundation LivingSix programme has been launched in Ireland.

Its first presentation was to a group of counsellors who work for the Console organisation - Ireland's national suicide bereavement charity established by Paul Kelly four years ago.

The group comprised 12 counsellors and psychotherapists and was facilitated by Liam McCarthy, founder of PCI College and world renowned suicidologist.

The evaluation proved to be very worth while. Average satisfaction rating for the event were:

Content 92.5%
Presentation Quality 97.5%
Relevance 93.5%
Issue Response 88%
Audio Visual 96.7%
Communication Style 96.7%

The next outing for LivingSix will be in Kilkenny with Ossory Youth on July 10th

You can download the full presentation at:

http://www.alchemismfoundation.org/pdfs/LivingSix_1_1.pdf

Paul

ForumNet is going live !

2007-07-03T22:17:00.001-07:00

The Alchemism Foundation is pleased to announce that the first ForumNet programme is being set up with the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland organisation http://www.socialentrepreneurs.ie/

This will ensure that this group of social entrepreneurs will be fully trained in being able to manage their own networking according to the forumnet gestalt psychology and coaching methodology.

See http://www.alchemismfoundation.org/pdfs/ALC%20P-717%20Forumnet.pdf for the forumnet pdf

Paul

LivingSix Evaluation Results Now In!

2007-06-25T14:12:00.000-07:00

The evaluation of the first LivingSix program has just been released.

TopLine results are impressive. The following percentages show the satisfaction rating by the group of the following topics:

Content 92.5%
Presentation Quality 97.5%
Relevance 93.3%
Response to issues 88%
Audio Visual Quality 96.7%
Communication Style 96.7%

As this was the first program, using version 1.0 of the material, this bodes very well for the future of LivingSix

LivingSix Launched in Dublin

2007-06-24T15:53:00.000-07:00

The first LivingSix event was held in Dublin today at All Hallows College to an audience of Console Volunteers, the national suicide bereavement charity, set up by Paul Kelly.

In its first outing, the LivingSix material showed the new thinking that the Alchemism Foundation has adopted in its approach to suicide prevention, intervention and post vention.

The group were lively, engaging and challenging - the way it should be.

Many thanks to Liam McCarthy, Founder, PCI College for inviting Paul Mooney and Carmel Tuite to present and the foundation looks forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Console and PCI College

Mooney to head up new suicidology department for leading training college

2007-06-22T15:59:00.001-07:00

It wont be announced for a little while, but the founder of the alchemism foundation, Paul Mooney has been asked to head up a brand new suicidology department in a well known training college in Dublin.

He has said yes to the opportunity and looks forward to blending the 15 year history of the college, with the new and innovative work that is taking place in the Alchemism Foundation in the area of suicide prevention, which we call LivingSix.

Watch this space !