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Minding Creative Minds’ (MCM) October Online Meet and Greet Session
October 24, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Minding Creative Minds’ (MCM) next online Meet and Greet Session will take place on Monday October 24th at 7.00pm.
This event is free of charge and registration is now open here.
Minding Creative Minds announced an enhancement of its service to include specialist trauma and abuse counselling care. We are pleased to announce this service enhancement in collaboration with our creative partners at Screen Ireland, The Arts Council and Irish Theatre Institute as part of the Safe to Create programme on this primary advancement for our service offering and very thankful to do so with the continued support of Minister Catherine Martin and her team at The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. Minister Martin was present at the announcement at Dublin’s Project Arts Centre on Wednesday October 5th.
In both public and private health tiers, trauma and abuse counselling services can have significant wait lists, depending on the user’s catchment area and services accessed. At the time of writing, we understand a six-months plus wait list exists. With Minding Creative Minds enhanced service, our team of counsellors will also provide supportive care while the service user is waiting for a specific service referral. This approach ensures our (enhanced) service user is supported day to day with their coping and managing techniques until the bridge to engagement around the historical trauma is secured.
“Our meetings are for all members of the creative sector to chat and support one another and much more. Those attending set the agenda for each meeting by simply attending this free monthly meetup event. Since our September meeting, we have had a particularly busy number of weeks and we look forward to sharing all updates with those attending and indeed to hearing from the attendees also. Remember, when registering if someone wishes us to address a particular area during the meeting or indeed If you have a question and your preference is for a private response; just write this in the registration form and we will be glad to help”– Dave Reid, founder Minding Creative Minds
Earlier this month we announced an enhancement of our service to include specialist trauma and abuse counselling care. We are pleased to announce this service enhancement in collaboration with our creative partners at Screen Ireland, The Arts Council and Irish Theatre Institute as part of the Safe to Create programme on this primary advancement for our service offering and very thankful to do so with the continued support of Minister Catherine Martin and her team at The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. Minister Martin was present at the announcement at Dublin’s Project Arts Centre
Our contact details remain the same for all our Minding Creative Minds services in support of the Irish Creative Sector here at home and our Irish overseas.
- 24/7 Dedicated Phone Line (Phone 1800 814 244) (Calling from NI – 0800 0903677)
- You can also text ‘Hi’ to 087 369 0010 for SMS & WhatsApp Support (standard rate applies) with a qualified psychotherapist / counsellor
Minding Creative Minds pilot mentorship programme was established in 2021. Registration is now open for our fourth mentorship programme; you can register here
- Over 90 fully funded mentorships have been issued since 2021 equating to close to 500 mentoring sessions. A number of creative disciplines are represented in our mentorship programme; from music, dance, theatre, artist management, publishing, television production, life coaching, event management, label and project management, digital marketing and so much more.
In addition to the mental health support offered, Minding Creative Minds looks at the whole individual resulting in the programme offering access to a number of additional services structured to help users with various issues they may be experiencing. These include; Advice on practical, day-to-day issues that cause anxiety and stress | Legal Assistance for a range of issues | Financial Assistance & Consumer Advice | Career Guidance & Life Coaching| Support for Non-Irish Nationals & their families | Mediation for conflict resolution.
*When registered you are entitled to 30mins free advice per topic. If you need financial assistance but in a couple of different areas, you are entitled to 30mins advice on each. For example; Taxation (30mins), Mortgage enquiry (30mins) etc.
If you have any feedback on our services or our monthly sessions, we would love to hear from you to info@nullmindingcreativeminds.ie
*Our monthly meet up sessions are presented by Minding Creative Minds’ (MCM) in association with The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, EPIC Working Group, Irish Music Rights Organization (IMRO), Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA), MCD Productions & The Cowshed.
