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Come and sit together in stillness for a morning of guided meditation and mindful dialogue (council circle). All Welcome.
Join us in person for a morning in support of Gaza and Palestine.
Come and sit together in stillness for a morning of guided meditation and mindful dialogue (council circle). Together we'll bear witness to the continuing genocide against the Palestinian people, and to how each of us is touched by this. All are welcome, no experience needed.
All funds will be donated to https://childrennotnumbers.org/
Contact mindfulnessforsocialchange@gmail.com
Come and sit together in stillness for a morning of guided meditation and mindful dialogue (council circle). All Welcome.
Join us in person for a morning in support of Gaza and Palestine.
Come and sit together in stillness for a morning of guided meditation and mindful dialogue (council circle). Together we'll bear witness to the continuing genocide against the Palestinian people, and to how each of us is touched by this. All are welcome, no experience needed.
All funds will be donated to https://childrennotnumbers.org/
Contact mindfulnessforsocialchange@gmail.com
BA Hons, Post-grad Dip. Journalism, Certificate to teach MBSR (IMA)
Niamh began her training in teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in 2007 with a foundation year at the University of Bangor in North Wales, and completed her training with the Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches (Germany), graduating in 2010. Prior to this, her working life was in documentary film and television production, latterly as a director on the environmental programme, 'Eco Eye'.
In 2010 she began teaching the MBSR programme in Kilkenny and Waterford and since 2013 she's offered it in Wicklow, Dublin city and online. She is also a mindfulness-teacher trainer and supervisor. Niamh has been a committed meditator for twenty years and regularly attends silent retreats and further training, receives supervision while teaching and adheres to the Good Practice Guidelines.
For a number of years she has been exploring the intersection of mindfulness and social engagement through her own practice, retreats and teaching. Beginning in summer 2019 she facilitated a group through a six-month, long-form mindfulness and social engagement project, showing up. In 2019 the showing up programme engaged directly with the ongoing housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland. With the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, these offerings moved online to facilitate mindfulness and 'connection circle' sessions to groups of foster carers, healthcare workers, school principals and members of the general public who wanted to connect in a mindful and meaningful way with others during the pandemic. The project continued online with anti-racism study groups and broadened to offer mindful engagement with the ecological emergency once back in-person.
Since 2017, Niamh has been participating in council circles and studying the Way of Council. Since 2023, she has organised council circle workshop training weekends in Ireland with trainers Jared and Ann Seide of U.S. organisation Beyond Us & Them.
Niamh is a student of Frank De Waele, Roshi in the tradition of Zen Peacemakers. In May 2025, along with Roshi Frank, she will co-lead a Bearing Witness retreat in Ireland on the theme of the Ireland's mother and baby homes.
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M.A. in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Approaches, Bangor University, Wales
Josephine Lynch, M.A. Mindfulness-based Approaches (Bangor University), Lic. Ac., Dip. Herbal Medicine, has also gained the Certificate of Competence to Teach Mindfulness-Based Courses from the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University. She completed a two year programme with the Bodhi College in early Buddhist Psychology and its influence on contemporary practice. She is also a qualified to offer supervision to mindfulness teachers.
Josephine was among the first people to bring the teaching of mindfulness in the tradition of Jon Kabat-Zinn to Ireland and has been teaching MBSR/MBCT since 2005. She also teaches Mindful Self-Compassion and, having undergone a period of intensive supervision, and has completed all requirements to become a fully certified teacher of the Mindful Self-Compassion program as outlined by the Center for Mindful Self Compassion. Josephine was part of the team that brought the world renowned Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh to Ireland in 2012.
Josephine is one of the core team of teachers on the M.Sc. in Mindfulness-Based Interventions in UCD and had been involved in programme development and delivery since its inception in 2014.
Josephine’s background is in Mind / Body Medicine and she has worked most of her life using acupuncture, shiatsu and herbal medicine to foster mind / body wellbeing. She was involved in developing and working with Sláinte Pobal in Dublin in the 1990’s, an initiative to bring courses in health education into areas of socio economic disadvantage.
Josephine was one of the founder members of the professional body, the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland (MTAI.ie) which represents mindfulness teachers in Ireland and was its first chairperson from February 2018 until October 2020. She has been organizing CPD for mindfulness teachers and teacher trainees since 2008, fostering and supporting the development of a strong community of mindfulness teachers in Ireland.
Josephine is one of the founders of The Mindfulness Centre (mindfulness.ie, 2008), and she is co-director of the 18-month Professional Mindfulness Teacher Training programme which the Centre has been running since 2015.
