Introduction

We are very pleased to have been commissioned by Aiséirí to provide professional training  for participants from Aiséirí’s services nationally (see http://www.aiseiri.ie/aiseiri-locations for the locations of Aiséirí services)

The College will initially provide training in Group Facilitation. Participants in this programme will have the opportunity to gain the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to engage with group facilitation processes within the counselling/psychotherapeutic fields in addiction.

Aiséirí is one of Ireland’s longest established addiction treatment services and it operates out of four centres of excellence. With a high success rate for lifetime recovery, Aiséirí has changed thousands of lives, not just those of addicts but those of the families and loved ones that also suffer because of addiction. This module will allow staff to enhance their knowledge of the practice of facilitation skills. The course is, in fact, one of the modules from the B.A. in Counselling Skills and Addiction Studies programme that is offered by the Irish College of Humanities and Applied Sciences. The B.A is awarded by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) and where individual modules are completed (as in this case) students who successfully complete the module, will be awarded a Single Subject Certificate by QQI.

Our upcoming 2020 course dates are as follows:

Dates:

• 21^st and 22^nd March
• 4^th and 5^th April
• 25^th and 26^th April
• 9^th and 10^th May

The course on these dates will be held  in Aiséirí/Aislinn, Ballyragget, Co.Kilkenny