Why ‘International’ in International College for Personal and Professional Development?

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Why ‘International’ in International College for Personal and Professional Development?

Ten years ago, when ICPPD was being recorded in the Company Registration Office, Christine Moran as founder with her husband Tom Moran had initially wished to use the word ‘Irish’ but this was not available as it was incorporated into another counselling...

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COVID 19 Update – 25th March 2020

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COVID 19 Update – 25th March 2020

ICPPD is committed to safeguarding the health, safety and wellbeing of the ICPPD Community – learners, tutors, administration and support staff. The College will strive to ensure that the educational experience of learners will continue where possible...

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How to Practice Loving Kindness Meditation

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How to Practice Loving Kindness Meditation

There are different ways to practice this form of meditation, each based on different Buddhist traditions, but each variation uses the same core psychological operation. During your meditation, you generate kind intentions toward certain targets including...

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icppd_userApr 07No Comments

Is Counselling and Psychotherapy a Vocation or the work of a Technician, or both?

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Is Counselling and Psychotherapy a Vocation or the work of a Technician, or both?

As part of my studies and research recently I was reflecting on counselling and psychotherapy both in the counselling room and in the training room. I was reading a book by Dr. Sudhir Kakar who is a psychoanalyst and is from India. He explores the many...

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Trauma Healing at the Clay Field: A Conversation with Cornelia Elbrecht

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Trauma Healing at the Clay Field: A Conversation with Cornelia Elbrecht

Clay Field Therapy Work at the Clay Field is a bottom-up Sensorimotor Art Therapy approach, which has been developed by Prof Heinz Deuser in Germany since the 1970s. The client at the Clay Field works in a flat wooden box filled with approximately 10...

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Graduation Speech by Colm Morris – ICPPD Graduation 2019

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Graduation Speech by Colm Morris – ICPPD Graduation 2019

To help me look back on the last 3 years with ICPPD, I logged into Moodle one more time and put up a list of the modules that we all completed from year one, right through year 3. The overriding feeling I had, as I pondered my own learning from each module...

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 Conferring of Awards and Graduation Ceremony 2019

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 Conferring of Awards and Graduation Ceremony 2019

-Speech by Christine Moran, Academic Director, Founder of ICPPD Welcome everyone, To all graduands gathered here to-day and to those unable to be present, my joyous congratulations to you all!We are here today, to honour you, our learners who carry the...

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The 11th Hour – Prophecy of a Hopi Elder

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The 11th Hour – Prophecy of a Hopi Elder

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right...

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ICPPD – A holistic approach to training and education

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ICPPD – A holistic approach to training and education

The holistic approach to health and well-being is the hallmark of the International College for Personal and Professional Development (ICPPD). The approach to holistic training and education in third level also supports a change in Irish attitudes to...

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Bow to confusion! – Jeff Foster

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Bow to confusion! – Jeff Foster

Bow to confusion! It is the fertile ground from which great clarity blossoms in its own sweet time.   It is not confusing, when you bow.   Bow to anger! It contains the power of life itself. It creates universes. It rises suddenly to protect...

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