Workshop Title: Presence of Place
Date: 26 September 2026
Time: 10am - 4pm
Location: La Verna Centre, Ballinderry, Mullingar, Westmeath, N91K680

Facilitator: Jim FitzGibbon
CPD: 5 CPD hours

Workshop Cost: 
€70 for IAHIP Members
€100 for General Admission

Refreshments and light lunch are included in the cost

DETAILS OF WORKSHOP

I am delighted to share time with you in this workshop to help you explore your lived experience of place. The indoor and outdoor spaces in the lovely La Verna Centre, Mullingar Westmeath N91K680. 

As an entry requirement you and each of the other participants will have your own personal support in place, in the form of ongoing psychotherapeutic support.

This workshop is about how we bring with us some experiences of different places and leave some behind and reflection on your learnings about the quality of supports you found or were absent in places and what adaptations you needed to feel you belong in a place.

Using the supportive environment of facilitated group, with a gestalt lens of body oriented inquiry you will have the opportunity to tell your story different ways including art, words, sounds, movements, an ancient ritual, visualisations body sensations. 

We will explore ways to experience energy, life, soul, breath, gravity, ground. 

The group will offer support to evoke our past/present relationships with life in places, lands, oceans, skies and rivers.

Hopefully, this gives a chance to integrate and redefine your experience of the place where you began your journey, on to the next place and so on.

PRESENTER - Jim FitzGibbon

Jim FitzGibbon has been a psychotherapist since 2007. He was born in Cork City, raised in Co Dublin. In a former life he was a soldier. 

He successfully facilitated warring parties to agree to actually stop killing civilians only to be held hostage in no-man's-land, a place where truth is the first casualty. He and his family experienced mental and physical torture of life and death in war in that time and place. 

He found a key to recovery is living by the river Shannon and by availing of support in the community there.

Jim loves personal development with Gestalt psychotherapy and supervision.

He welcomes contact with participants in this workshop who are similarly committed and have their supports in place in the form of ongoing personal therapy. 

PARTICIPANTS

Minimum number: 15

Maximum number: 20

This workshop will proceed subject to minimum numbers.

Full terms and conditions are available at www.iahip.org/Events-TermsAndConditions/