Mind Emotional Nurturing

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Mind Emotional Nurturing Provide high-quality, evidence-based coaching psychology training for educators.

Instilling Social Emotional Learning Skills through the GREAT SCREAM Programme & transforming emotional well-being in post-primary schools across Ireland.

Awareness is the first step. Acceptance is the second. 🌱 We often encourage young people to accept themselves. But how w...
28/09/2026

Awareness is the first step. Acceptance is the second. 🌱

We often encourage young people to accept themselves. But how well do we practise it ourselves?

This World Mental Health Day, Teach Self-Acceptance starts with the person doing the teaching.

Join MINDEMN for the fifth workshop in our G.R.E.A.T. Community Workshop Mini Series:

What happens when we can notice a difficult thought, emotion, mistake, or limitation without letting it define our worth? Self-acceptance isn’t giving up on change. It can create the space from which learning and growth become possible.

Together we’ll explore:
🧠 Watching thoughts rather than automatically believing them
💭 Making space for emotions without making them our identity
🌱 Accepting where we are while continuing to grow
💛 Responding to ourselves and young people with compassion
Featuring CTM, My Brain S.A.I.D. and Compassion-based Coaching Questions.
📅 Saturday, 10 October 2026
💻 Online via Zoom. 🔗 ☝🏾
🎟️ FREE
Where Wellbeing Meets Achievement.
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🌱 APPRECIATE MINDFULLYAppreciation Begins with Awareness.This World Su***de Prevention Day, join MINDEMN for the fourth ...
18/08/2026

🌱 APPRECIATE MINDFULLY
Appreciation Begins with Awareness.
This World Su***de Prevention Day, join MINDEMN for the fourth free session in The G.R.E.A.T. Community Workshop Mini Series 2026.

How do we help build protective emotional skills early?
Sometimes it begins with something simple: noticing.
Noticing what we’re feeling.
Naming what is showing up.
Creating space before responding.
Recognising strengths, effort, connection and what matters.

In Appreciate Mindfully, we’ll explore gratitude and mindfulness as everyday awareness tools — not as ways of ignoring or “fixing” difficult emotions.

💭 What You’ll Gain
✨ Mindfulness as noticing, not fixing
✨ Explore appreciation even when Stress, Anxiety, Insecurity or Doubt show up
✨ Learn to pause, notice and respond compassionately
✨ Connect emotional awareness with purposeful action

🧠 Tools Introduced
• Expanding the Cognitive Triangle Model (CTM)
• My Brain S.A.I.D. – Stress, Anxiety, Insecurity, Doubt
• Compassion-based Coaching Questions

📅 Thursday, 10 September 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
💻 Zoom | 90 minutes
🎟️ FREE

Taking place on World Su***de Prevention Day, this trauma-informed, non-clinical community workshop focuses on raising awareness and building protective emotional skills early. It is not clinical or suicide-prevention training.

🔗 Register via the link in our bio
WHERE WELLBEING MEETS ACHIEVEMENT
For young people and the professionals who support them.
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Engage Actively – Supporting Agency, Motivation & ActionTo celebrate World Health Day, we are hosting a special session ...
18/03/2026

Engage Actively – Supporting Agency, Motivation & Action

To celebrate World Health Day, we are hosting a special session in The G.R.E.A.T. Community Learning Path.

📅 Tuesday 7 April 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
💻 Free Online Webinar

Grounded in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, Social Emotional Learning, and neuroscience, this session will explores the science of changing thought patterns and how educators and community professionals can strengthen motivation, resilience, and agency in themselves and the young people they support.

Join the conversation for World Health Day 2026 and help support healthier thinking and learning environments.

Theme: Together for Health –

Register here:
👉 www.mindemotionalnurturing.com/events
Hosted by Mind Emotional Nurturing CLG

G.R.E.A.T. Community Series – R: Relate Non-JudgementallyJoin MINDEMNCLG online: Monday, 2nd March | 12:00 – 13:30As we ...
13/02/2026

G.R.E.A.T. Community Series – R: Relate Non-Judgementally

Join MINDEMNCLG online: Monday, 2nd March | 12:00 – 13:30

As we celebrate the AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival and International Social Emotional Learning Day 2026, we’re continuing our GREAT journey with:

Relate Non-Judgementally – The Relational Stance
In this interactive online session, we will explore:

✔️Awareness of meaning – understanding the story behind behaviour
✔️Trust & safety – creating emotionally secure learning spaces
✔️Firmness without blame – holding boundaries with compassion

Relationships are the foundation of learning.
When we shift from judgement to curiosity, we strengthen connection, reduce shame, and support growth — for adults and young people alike.

This free community webinar offers a practical taster of the G.R.E.A.T. SCREAM Programme and the mind-emotional nurturing approach.

Let’s celebrate adult learning and social emotional learning by strengthening how we relate to others and to ourselves. 💚

Register your interest via
https://www.mindemotionalnurturing.com/event-details-registration/relate-non-judgementally



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Celebrating International Day of Education – 2026How we respond to young people in moments of stress and self-doubt matt...
08/01/2026

Celebrating International Day of Education – 2026

How we respond to young people in moments of stress and self-doubt matters.

🌱 Give Compassionately — a public webinar for educators & youth professionals.
📅 24 Jan 2026 | Online
Part of The G.R.E.A.T. Community Workshop Mini Series.
Register your interest via the link in bio☝🏾



At MINDEMN CLG, well-being and achievement go hand in hand.This 2026, experience a practical introduction to CBC + SEL i...
08/01/2026

At MINDEMN CLG, well-being and achievement go hand in hand.

This 2026, experience a practical introduction to CBC + SEL in community education.

Look out 👀 for The G.R.E.A.T. Community Workshop (2026) Mini Series - a taster of the G.R.E.A.T. SCREAM programme by MINDEMNCLG

Balancing Minds, Building Futures.

GREAT Courageous Goals for 2026 🌿On 4th December, MINDEMN was proud to represent and advocate for youth well-being at th...
31/12/2025

GREAT Courageous Goals for 2026 🌿

On 4th December, MINDEMN was proud to represent and advocate for youth well-being at the Community Education Network meeting, organised by AONTAS.
Surrounded by community educators, youth workers, and leaders, and guided by the Charter of Community Education, the message was clear: well-being is a shared responsibility.

At MINDEMN, we see ourselves as an early prevention and intervention organisation, grounded in mind-emotional nurturing. Our work focuses on equipping educators, youth practitioners, and community education professionals with the tools to support young people’s emotional development in everyday learning environments.

We believe young people can become self-scientists, learning to understand their emotions, thoughts, and behaviours when guided by informed, confident adults before distress becomes suffering.

It brings us back to a powerful question as we close the year:

“Nature loads the gun — but nurture pulls the trigger.”

So, as we look ahead to 2026, we’re setting a GREAT Courageous Goal:
✨ To support youth across Ireland by strengthening the adults, systems, and learning environments around them — through emotional education that empowers, not pathologises.

💭Open discussion:
❓How can communities, schools, families, youth organisations, policymakers, and government come together to:

1. Reduce unnecessary mental and emotional suffering
2. Nurture emotional awareness early
3. Help young people balance System 1 (automatic reactions) and System 2 (thoughtful responses) and embed Social & Emotional Learning as a foundation for life?

We believe the future lies not in fixing youth, but in nurturing the educational and community environments where they can thrive.

Thank you to everyone who walked alongside us in 2025.

Here’s to GREAT conversations, GREAT compassion, and GREAT collective action in 2026.

🌱 Balancing Minds, Building Futures.

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GREAT Reflections, GREAT Gratitude, GREAT Hopes for 2026 🌿✨As 2025 comes to a close, we want to pause and say thank you....
24/12/2025

GREAT Reflections, GREAT Gratitude, GREAT Hopes for 2026 🌿✨

As 2025 comes to a close, we want to pause and say thank you.

Thank you to our educators, youth workers, community partners, supporters, and everyone who believes in emotional well-being in education.

This year reminded us why the GREAT SCREAM matters. When we Give compassionately, Relate non-judgmentally, Engage actively, Appreciate mindfully, and Teach self-acceptance, we create spaces where well-being and achievement can grow together.
At MINDEMN CLG, we are grateful for the conversations started, the connections made, and the collective action taken to support educators and empower youth.

As we look ahead to 2026, our hope is simple:
✨ more emotionally nurturing learning spaces
✨ more confident, resilient youth
✨ more supported educators and communities

Here’s to a GREAT 2026 —
Balancing Minds, Building Futures.
Warm seasonal wishes from all of us at MINDEMN CLG 💚

Dopamine Rush 🧠✨After facilitating an 18-hour, 5-day online safety programme with secondary school youth, I can honestly...
23/12/2025

Dopamine Rush 🧠✨

After facilitating an 18-hour, 5-day online safety programme with secondary school youth, I can honestly say I enjoyed every single moment.

But the biggest dopamine rush didn’t come from finishing the programme, it came from one simple question:

“What’s dopamine?”

I boomeranged 🪃 the question back to the group. Silence. And then, my moment.

As I explained dopamine, I could see it click. The faces. The focus. The realisation that so much of what we chase, feeling better, avoiding discomfort, seeking rewards, escaping stress, is wired into how our brains develop, especially during adolescence.

That moment brought me back to why I wrote my wellbeing book for parents in 2021, “A DOSE A Day”, using the four key neurochemicals to support parents’ well-being while nurturing their children.

Now I’m wondering…
1. What if we taught this directly to young people?
2. What if youth became self-scientists — learning to understand their brains, emotions, motivation, and behaviours?
3. Could this reduce stress, anxiety, insecurity, and self-doubt — while supporting learning, confidence, and well-being?

I’d love to open this up for discussion:
❓How can we better empower youth with this knowledge to support both well-being and academic achievement?

Let’s talk 💬

✨ FEBRUARY 2026 COHORT – NOW ENROLLING ✨CBC in Education is here 💛 Join the GREAT SCREAM Programme — a practical SEL tra...
23/12/2025

✨ FEBRUARY 2026 COHORT – NOW ENROLLING ✨
CBC in Education is here 💛

Join the GREAT SCREAM Programme — a practical SEL training for those working with young people (15–18) across schools, youth & community education.

🧠 Emotional regulation
🌱 Resilience & confidence
🎓 16 hrs CPD
💻 Online
🔥 50% early adopter launch rate

📅 Feb 2026
🔗 Book now via link in bio

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