(2012 Conference Poster to Download)

Conference 2012:

The Art of Being Still

The Mindful Leader

the Sanctuary will hold its 3rd Annual Conference
in Dublin Castle on 22nd May 2012.

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Speakers will include: Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy Founder of the Sanctuary who will open the conference; Michael Chaskalson UK's leading trainer of mindfulness-based approaches to work; Tony Bates, Founder of Headstrong and Mark Patrick Hederman Abbot of Glenstall Abbey.

Further information on the speakers and their presentations will be available shortly.

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Please note the Conference is now Booked Out and we are taking names for cancellation. Please contact the office for this.

Please contact the office for any further information T 01 670 5419 E enquiries@sanctuary.ie

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Article in the Irish Times April 24th with Tony Bates on the Conference click here.

Article in the Sunday Business Post April 29th with Gareth Naughton on Michael Chaskalson and the Conference.

This one-day Conference will explore how we can develop in others and in ourselves our innate capacity to lead. And in particular how being mindful can assist with this. The speakers, will present from their experiences of being creative leaders and also practitioners of meditation and mindfulness.

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Speakers

Sister Stanislaus Kennedy usually called Sister Stan, is a visonary and social innovator and a member of the Religious Sisters of Charity. She founded the Sanctuary in 1998, a meditation centre in the heart of Dublin city. For almost fifty years now she has pioneered, campaigned, explored and developed a range of inspiring social innovations for people who have experienced exclusion in its many forms. In the 1960’s Sr Stan worked alongside Bishop Birch for 19 years in developing Kilkenny Social Services. It became an innovative, comprehensive model of community care becoming a blue-print for the rest of Ireland. In 1974 the Irish Government appointed Sr Stan as the first chair of what is now the Combat Poverty Agency, and in 1985 the European Commission appointed her as trans-national co-ordinator in the European rural anti poverty programme. More notably known for establishing in the early 1980's Focus Ireland, the biggest national, voluntary organisation helping people to find a home. Sr Stan also went on to establish Social Innovations Ireland (SII) out of which has grown two new initiatives, the Immigrant Council of Ireland Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI), an independent national organisation working to promote the rights of immigrants through information, advocacy and legal aid and the Young Social Innovators of the Year (YSI), a national showcase providing an opportunity for transition year students to become involved in social issues. Author of several books including Moments of Stillness, Stan also teaches meditation at the Sanctuary.

Michael Chaskalson Michael has a masters degree in the clinical applications of mindfulness and more than thirty five years of personal practice of mindfulness and related disciplines. He is an honorary lecturer at Bangor University, where he teaches a masters module in the Department of Psychology. A member of the core team at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice in Bangor, Michael’s teaching is both theoretical and practical. Drawing on the latest scientific research, including studies from the field of brain science, his approach fuses that with the ancient art of meditative practice. Michael runs mindfulness trainings in a wide variety of contexts. He has trained a number of the UK’s leading business coaches in mindfulness skills and, as a coach and mindfulness trainer he has worked with people from Pricewaterhouse Coopers, AXA PPP, Barclays Bank, Deutsche Bank, KPMG, Scottish Re, Pinsent Masons, Mills & Reeve, The Prudential, Saatchi & Saatchi, the National Health Service, GlaxoSmithKline, the UK’s Home Office and Cabinet Office and several top UK business schools. His book, the “Mindful Workplace”, was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2012 and he is currently co-writing a chapter entitled “Making the Mindful Leader” for the Wiley Handbook of Occupational and Industrial Psychology.

Tony Bates is a clinical psychologist with over thirty years experience as a psychotherapist and leader in the mental health field. He holds a PhD from University College Dublin (UCD) and received advanced clinical training at Oxford University in the UK and the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, where he worked alongside some of the world's leading innovators in cognitive-behavioural therapy. For much of his career, Tony served as Principal Clinical Psychologist at St James’s Hospital in Dublin and at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), establishing and administering the Masters programme in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He has been a regular contributor to national print and broadcast discourse about mental health, including a fortnightly column in the Irish Times. In 2005, Tony was an editor of "A Vision for Change", the Irish Government’s policy on mental health service reform. This role and his experience within the traditional mental health system made him aware that the greatest gap in mental health service provision lies in its failure to engage young people and offer supports that suit their developmental needs. Thus, in 2006 Tony founded Headstrong – The National Centre for Youth Mental Health to “change how Ireland thinks about youth mental health”.
Headstrong’s main work is to establish accessible, community-based supports for young people through its Jigsaw programme.

Mark Patrick Hederman the abbot of Glenstal Abbey, is a native of Co. Limerick and has been a member of the Benedictine community for forty-five years. A former student of Glenstal, he studied philosophy and theology at the Sorbonne in Paris for four years in the late 1960s and later studied at UCD where he took a doctorate in the philosophy of education. Returning to teach at Glenstal, he went on to become headmaster of the school.
Becoming abbot of Glenstal in December 2008 was a shock to those who knew him and his work because of the maverick figure that he is in the Irish Church Mark Patrick is a writer and philosopher, a self-effacing intellectual and a great communicator who is much traveled. He is recognised as an individual who has never been afraid of embracing new ways of thinking. He is a founding editor of the cultural journal The Crane Bag, he is also the author of several books, including The Haunted Inkwell, Kissing in the Dark and Walkabout- Life as the Holy Spirit. His most recent book is Symbolism, published in 2008.

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Information on last years (2011) conference Art of Being Still - Mindfulness and Young People, please click here.

Information on 2010 conference Art of Being Still - Mindfulness and Mental Health, please click here.

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