Monday, November 16th from 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM (GMT)

Online Webinar – Zoom – Link will be sent before event.

Cost: Free to attend – Donations are what helps to keep the series going.

If you can’t make the live you will have access to the playback until Monday November 23rd.

About Tony Bates

Dr. Tony Bates is a clinical psychologist, writer, and national mental health leader with over four decades of experience in clinical practice, higher education, public policy, and service innovation.  

He was Head of Psychology for 30 years in St James’s Hospital Dublin and established and directed the MSc Cognitive Psychotherapy in TCD until 2006. In 2006 he founded Jigsaw (The National Centre for Youth Mental Health) to serve young people and their mental health needs and remained CEO until his retirement in 2018.

Tony has been active in shaping and writing government policy since 2006. He was made honorary Professor of Psychology in UCD in September 2018 as a tribute to his contribution to the field.

He trained as a mindfulness teacher in University of North Wales, Bangor in 2001 and has been active since in disseminating Mindfulness in Ireland. He is the patron of the MTAI. Special clinical interests include Youth Mental Health, Compassion-based approaches for children & young people in residential care, Deliberate Practice training and supervision for psychotherapists. His most recent book is ‘Breaking the Heart Open,’ part memoir, part exploration of the current state of mental health care in Ireland.

Resilience isn’t about becoming invulnerable. It’s about becoming more able to meet life as it is.

In this interactive webinar, we will explore:

• What happened to you? — moving beyond the language of “what’s wrong with me?”
• Can we heal without erasing our wounds?
• What does acceptance actually mean?
• When does resilience become suppression?
• How childhood experiences continue to shape adult relationships
• Grief as something we integrate rather than “get over”
• The relationship between vulnerability and psychological strength
• Why compassion for ourselves can be difficult
• The danger of making a diagnosis part of our identity
• How mindfulness changes our relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings
• Whether suffering can become a source of meaning
• What makes psychotherapy genuinely transformative?

About Tony Bates

Dr. Tony Bates is a Clinical psychologist, writer, and national mental health leader with over four decades of experience in clinical practice, higher education, public policy, and service innovation.  

He was Head of Psychology for 30 years in St James’s Hospital Dublin and established and directed the MSc Cognitive Psychotherapy in TCD until 2006. In 2006 he founded Jigsaw (The National Centre for Youth Mental Health) to serve young people and their mental health needs and remained CEO until his retirement in 2018.

Tony has been active in shaping and writing government policy since 2006. He was made honorary Professor of Psychology in UCD in September 2018 as a tribute to his contribution to the field.

He trained as a mindfulness teacher in University of North Wales, Bangor in 2001 and has been active since in disseminating Mindfulness in Ireland. He is the patron of the MTAI. Special clinical interests include Youth Mental Health, Compassion-based approaches for children & young people in residential care, Deliberate Practice training and supervision for psychotherapists. His most recent book is ‘Breaking the Heart Open,’ part memoir, part exploration of the current state of mental health care in Ireland.