Welcome to Scoil Mochua's well-being page. This is a space for parents to find out more about how we promote and teach children about well-being in our school. We also endeavour to provide parents with up to date and relevant information to support their own well-being and that of their families.
Self care for parents
We can only give to others when our own cup in full. It can be difficult to carve time out for ourselves but it is not impossible! Click here for tips on attending to your self-care as a parent or watch the webinar below. The webinar discusses self-care during winter months.
Emotional regulation webinar
Webinar on emotional regulation and healthy boundaries for parents of children up to 8 yrs.
This webinar is hosted by Aisling Murray, an Accredited Play Therapist based in Portlaoise, founder of Laois Play Therapy. She has been working with children for over 16 years and in Play Therapy for over 6 years. She is currently working with children with a wide range of issues including social anxieties, social difficulties, behavioural issues, trauma, loss, ASD, ADHD and other individual needs.
The aim of this talk is to empower parents to understand their children's behaviours, needs and difficult scenarios.
Wednesday, 23rd March 2022, 7pm.
Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/emotional-regulation-healthy-boundaries-up-to-8yrs-tickets-223199775537
This webinar is hosted by Aisling Murray, an Accredited Play Therapist based in Portlaoise, founder of Laois Play Therapy. She has been working with children for over 16 years and in Play Therapy for over 6 years. She is currently working with children with a wide range of issues including social anxieties, social difficulties, behavioural issues, trauma, loss, ASD, ADHD and other individual needs.
The aim of this talk is to empower parents to understand their children's behaviours, needs and difficult scenarios.
Wednesday, 23rd March 2022, 7pm.
Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/emotional-regulation-healthy-boundaries-up-to-8yrs-tickets-223199775537
mental health webinar for parents
In July of last year, Walk in My Shoes, a mental health awareness and education organisation, hosted a webinar for parents.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of St Patrick's Mental Health Services, Paul Gilligan opens the webinar by speaking about building psychological resilience in children. Áine Lynch, CEO of the NPC, gives a presentation on listening and communication, while Cliodhna McDonnell, Founder of Doing the Best We Can, a peer support network for parents and guardians, talks about the service, its benefits, and who can access it.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of St Patrick's Mental Health Services, Paul Gilligan opens the webinar by speaking about building psychological resilience in children. Áine Lynch, CEO of the NPC, gives a presentation on listening and communication, while Cliodhna McDonnell, Founder of Doing the Best We Can, a peer support network for parents and guardians, talks about the service, its benefits, and who can access it.
weaving Well-being
presentation for parents
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This year we introduced a new well-being programme in all classes from Junior Infants to 6th. It is called Weaving Well-being. On the 6th of October 2021, Fiona Forman, co-author of Weaving Well-being, hosted a webinar for the parents of Scoil Mochua. In her presentation she discussed positive psychology, self-care and building resilience in children. Thank you Fiona for an engaging and informative talk. She has kindly shared her presentation slides which can be downloaded here.
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‘I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.’ Louisa May Alcott
Parent Webinar: Raising Resilient Children : Approaches from Positive Psychology By Fiona Forman
Resilience is one of the greatest gifts we can give our children. Now, with the extra challenges they have faced due to Covid 19, we need to equip them with the skills they need to flourish and thrive, despite these many difficulties and obstacles.
The field of Positive Psychology, which is the science of well-being, can offer us many approaches and ideas for nurturing our children’s resilience, through a combination of support and skills.
In this talk, author and former teacher, Fiona Forman, (M. Sc. Applied Positive Psychology) will share insights and research on resilience, as well as practical resilience skills.
Fiona Forman - Bio
Fiona Forman is an author, speaker, facilitator and trainer in the area of well-being and Positive Psychology. Having spent many years as a primary school teacher, she is absolutely passionate about placing well-being at the heart of school life, and she has seen first-hand the great benefits of empowering children, teachers and parents to understand, value and enhance their own mental health. Fiona holds an M. Sc. in Applied Positive Psychology, the science of well-being, from the University of East London.
Fiona is the co-author of Weaving Well-Being, an SPHE programme which is now widely used in primary schools. She is also the author of Wired for Well-Being, a new well-being programme for Second Level schools and her junior programme, Welcome to Well-Being, has just been released. Fiona is also the mother of two young adults, which has deepened her awareness of the necessity to equip children with the support and skills that they need to develop resilience and to thrive and flourish in life.
Resilience is one of the greatest gifts we can give our children. Now, with the extra challenges they have faced due to Covid 19, we need to equip them with the skills they need to flourish and thrive, despite these many difficulties and obstacles.
The field of Positive Psychology, which is the science of well-being, can offer us many approaches and ideas for nurturing our children’s resilience, through a combination of support and skills.
In this talk, author and former teacher, Fiona Forman, (M. Sc. Applied Positive Psychology) will share insights and research on resilience, as well as practical resilience skills.
Fiona Forman - Bio
Fiona Forman is an author, speaker, facilitator and trainer in the area of well-being and Positive Psychology. Having spent many years as a primary school teacher, she is absolutely passionate about placing well-being at the heart of school life, and she has seen first-hand the great benefits of empowering children, teachers and parents to understand, value and enhance their own mental health. Fiona holds an M. Sc. in Applied Positive Psychology, the science of well-being, from the University of East London.
Fiona is the co-author of Weaving Well-Being, an SPHE programme which is now widely used in primary schools. She is also the author of Wired for Well-Being, a new well-being programme for Second Level schools and her junior programme, Welcome to Well-Being, has just been released. Fiona is also the mother of two young adults, which has deepened her awareness of the necessity to equip children with the support and skills that they need to develop resilience and to thrive and flourish in life.