Training Network
The Infant Mental Health Training Network offers ongoing training opportunities to members and frontline practitioners in the Dublin 7 and Dublin 1 areas until December 2025.
Please find details of upcoming training and how to reserve a place for the various programmes and workshops below.
Upcoming Training
WORKSHOP
Supporting Parents’ Mental Health
– A strengths-based approach
Starting Tuesday 20th May, 9:30am-1:00pm
Parents’ mental health is crucial to the well-being of children. When both fathers and mothers feel well supported and resourced this makes an enormous difference to the lives of their children as well as the whole family. This workshop will consider the interplay of parents mental health with that of their children as well as present practical strategies as to how professionals can engage and support parents who are dealing with mental health difficulties and challenges.
FACILITATOR
John Sharry is a social worker and family psychotherapist with over 30 years’ experience as a child and adolescent mental health professional. He is a founder of the Parents Plus charity, an adjunct Professor at the School of Psychology in UCD and parenting columnist for The Irish Times. He is co-developer of the eight evidence-based Parents Plus Parenting Programme, and the bestselling author of ten self-help books for families including Positive Parenting and Parenting Teenagers. John is also a leading innovator in solution-focused practice and the author of several professional textbooks including Becoming a Solution Detective, Solution-focused Groupwork and Counselling Children Adolescents and Families – A Strengths-Based Approach.
Read more about Parents Plus courses here.
WORKSHOP
Trans Awareness Training
Starting Wednesday 28th May, 10am-12:30pm
The IMH Training Network D 7 & 1 are delighted to have Hannah Sorley from TENI join us for this workshop. We recommend this training session for any organisation, service, non-profit or community organisation working with transgender people.
TENI are the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland to build on your understanding of trans gender issues parents and young people face. TENI provide specialised training to the education, corporate, healthcare and non-profit sectors introducing transgender identities, experiences and the landscape of transgender rights in Ireland. Each session is tailored to the audience and context and can be adapted to all knowledge levels.
TENI’s gold-standard initial training session covers language and terminology use; what being transgender can mean in Ireland – names and pronouns, Irish legislation, healthcare access in Ireland; and build skills and confidence around allyship and inclusion.
Past Training
