Workshop Programme

This half day workshop aims to equip college staff with the skills, knowledge and confidence to support students and others who are experiencing significant distress, struggle or crisis. It is suitable for tutors, assistant wardens, students union, security and anyone else in a supportive role. The workshop covers active listening, boundaries and referral skills, and active participation is encouraged.

This workshop is run through HR once per semester, with 16 places available on each workshop, bookable through the HR website and available to all staff.

This workshop can also be requested by specific schools, departments or groups throughout the year.

Cost: Available on request

Date: To request a training, please email student-counselling@tcd.ie with the subject line “Staff Training Request”. Please try to allow at least six weeks’ notice where possible, particularly during term-time.

Venue: SCS Seminar Room or an alternative venue provided by the requesting group.

This workshop covers active listening skills, setting appropriate boundaries and making informed and helpful referrals.

These workshops are run annually in August each year

In most instances, we recommend the Minding Our Mental Health in College programme. This covers topics such as stress, resilience, managing difficult emotions, and dealing with self-criticism.

For Fresher Classes we suggest our one hour lecture.
For Sophister Classes, Postgraduates, or groups who know each other a little better, we recommend a 1.5 hour or 2 hour workshop, which covers similar topics but involves more interactive learning, including basic active listening skills.

This workshop will help students to identify good stress and bad stress, learn about the impact stress can have on their emotional wellbeing, how they might address the negative impacts and help to normalise some of the anxiety that can present at certain periods. Students will learn to manage difficult and painful feelings and focus on the things that they can control.

This workshop will help students identify their motivation blockers and links with procrastination, set realistic goals, recognise the emotions that come with motivation struggles and manage the negative self-talk and criticism that goes hand in hand with motivation/procrastination issues.

This workshop is designed to help students identify the differences between shyness and social anxiety, the ways in which they may present and offer up some tools and techniques to help them in challenging situations.

This workshop will help students identify signs that a friend might be struggling. Students will learn how to approach a conversation with their friend and support them in the appropriate way with sign-posting to other support services in Trinity.

This workshop focuses on the practise of mindfulness and how it can help us to develop more compassionate ways of speaking to ourselves. To put it simply, mindfulness is ‘’Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally’’ (Kabat-Zinn). Advantages of mindfulness include being fully present in the moment, a feeling of calm and peace, reducing stress, and becoming more aware of thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations.

This workshop will help students learn about the value of empathy in their interpersonal relationships. It will teach them active listening skills and how to communicate in an empathetic way while also being mindful of their well-being.

This workshop focuses on building skills needed to have conversations about suicide and support people considering suicide to reach out for professional support and care. The workshop will teach students how to: tune in to suicidality in others, ask the question about suicidal risk and suggest supports. This workshop might not be suitable for people who have experienced bereavement from suicide in the last 6 months.