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 Menopause networking session Mindfulness with Aoife FitzGerald  in person event

We invite you to the next menopause coffee morning. Keen to enhance your wellbeing? Curious about mindfulness? Aware that meditation might be helpful but finding it difficult, boring, annoying? Hard to know where to start? This Mindfulness and Menopause Session with Aoife FitzGerald might be a good place to start.All genders are welcome! Get practical tips, share stories or just listen. 

Date and time: Thursday, 25 April, 10:30 - 11:30

Location:TBC

What you will get from this session:

• An understanding of what mindfulness is (and is not) and how it works
• A look at the research around how it can help with menopause
• Exploring and trying out some practical takeaway tools to help bring mindfulness into your busy day to day lifeQuestions & answers with Aoife

Aoife FitzGerald 

MSW (Social Work), 

MSc MBI (Mindfulness Based Interventions)

Aoife is a Mindfulness Teacher and Trainer based in UCD. She currently teaches on the Mindfulness for Health module to undergraduate students as well as offering regular training opportunities to UCD staff. Aoife has delivered Mindfulness training to many community groups and workplace settings. 

Aoife's varied background in Social Work includes work in Child Protection, Children and Families and Medical settings.  She worked for many years as Student Adviser at UCD and more recently she works as a Mindfulness Teacher as part of her work in UCD in the Community. She completed her Masters in Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Psychology in UCD in 2021 and has completed further training in other mindfulness based interventions including Mindfulness for Life and Finding Peace in a Frantic World with the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.

Aoife has a personal meditation practice since 2010. She is passionate and inspired by Buddhist psychology and ethics and attends regular retreats and workshops. She meets the requirements of the Good Practice Guidelines for teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses published by the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland (MTAI) and is a registered member.