ISH Members' Newsletter April 2009
Easter symbolizes the birth of new life and reflects the current work of the Society. We are getting ready to roll out an exciting new schedule of CDP events, a designer has been chosen to upgrade the website, we have new leaflets and we have decided on a theme and a keynote speaker for the AGM.
CPD
A team of committee members have been working to pull together all the facets of the CPD route to Registration for the next round of applicants. A whole range of new CPD events is being planned for the autumn.
The workshops, seminars and lecture will be open to both Registration applicants and all other members. The schedule of events will be announced during the summer.
The CPD team working on your behalf includes Julie Baxter, Shirley Lee, Anne Marie O’Bradaigh and Gillian Wray (Registrar). Martin Byrne, who also worked tirelessly on this project, has stepped down as CPD manager for personal reasons but will remain working on the main committee. A huge thank you to Martin for the time and effort he put into the new CPD programme.
In the meantime all the details of the CPD route to Registration are available on our website at:
Mentoring
Mentor training will be a priority over the next few months. A mentoring meeting was held in Athlone on Saturday March 21st to discuss roles, payments, training, geography and the communication between Mentors and Mentorees.
It is planned that the 13 members who trained under the FETAC programme will go on to train others.
Under a new fee structure, from next September, Mentors will be paid a fee of €50 by their Mentorees for each meeting –approximately one hour. Short conversations and emails will be without charge. Mentorees will be expected to attend a minimum of three meetings a year with their Mentor in order to fulfil their Registration requirements..
As part of the new fee arrangements Mentors will have to pay for attending Society run workshops and seminars as a new pay-as-you-go system is being introduced.
Dr Michael Corry Workshop May 9th 2009
All Society members are invited to attend a seminar by consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr Michael Corry on Psychosis, Schizophrenia and Manic Depression (Bi Polar) in the Clarion Hotel in Dublin’s IFSC on May 9th 2009 from noon to 4pm at a cost of €60.
Dr Corry strongly supports energetic medicine and regularly integrates homeopathy into his practice, calling on the skills of ISH members.
Places are limited and must be pre-booked. Anyone who wants to attend must book the seminar
BEFORE April 17th 2000
by sending a form with the €60 cost to the office. Forms can be downloaded from our website at
See Downloads
End of Life Care
As you know Anne Marie O Bradaigh, from our Politics Group, put together a detailed submission from the ISH to the Hospice Foundation End of Life Forum.
Six members of the ISH recently attended the first meeting of the Forum and took part in workshops to bring greater awareness of the role of Homeopathy in End of Life care.
President Mary McAleese launched the forum and up to 400 delegates attended the meeting which was chaired by broadcaster Marian Finucane.
The ISH representatives at this meeting included Anne Marie O Bradaigh, Declan Mohan, Mary Carroll, Nikki Fitzpatrick, Anne Irwin and LeliaDoolin.
So far almost 70 of our members have expressed an interest in working with hospice facilities.
A Society leaflet has been produced for “End of Life Care” and is available for purchase along with our other leaflets. Please contact the office.
Spiritual Care Conference April 27-28th
The ISH will also take a stand at the first International Spiritual Care Conference in Killarney, Co Kerry on April 27th and 28th which is expected to attract 500 delegates.
“Compassion and Presence: Spiritual Care for the Living and Dying” is the theme of the meeting which is being targeted at a wide range of health care professionals working in areas like palliative care, oncology, psychiatry, nursing, neuroscience and general medicine.
AGM
Mark this date in your diary:-
October 10th 2009.
In keeping with the “End of Life Care” theme, our keynote speaker for our AGM is Homeopath Ali Morrish. Ali has a particular interest in the homoeopathic treatment of people with cancer. She has completed a residential training course at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre and is working as a homeopath in the busy CAM department at St. Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth.
Derek Hennessy who is coordinating this year’s AGM is also organising for stands to be made available for exhibitors at this year’s event.
We have been further considering the location of this year’s AGM because of travelling difficulties for many of our members. Derek is currently looking into this and we will advise our members of the final venue shortly.
Website
We held a tendering process and a series of interviews to choose a web designer to upgrade our current website. Geraldine Walsh, ClodaghSheehy and Sheelagh Behan will be working with the designer to bring you a new-look site with added features.
Our site is constantly updated in both the public and Members only area. In the Members only area you will find Society news, details of CPD events, research news and lots more.
A whole variety of documents are also available for download from the site. They include items from the ISH End of Life submission, Code of Ethics, CPD and Registration details, sabbatical and leave of absence guidelines and Core Criteria to membership and order forms.
Username and Passwords
If you have not signed up for a website username and password - please do it now
If you have forgotten your username and password contact us for a reminder. Any member who wants to sign-up, change or be given a reminder of their login details should contact us by email at
We are recommending that members use their own name(eg.marymurphy) as their username and then the password of their choice.
Please remember to include your choice of both username and password when you email us.
Media training course
Three members of the ISH media team – Sheelagh Behan, Ursula Lynch and Helen McMeel - took part in a day long media training course at Carmichael House in Dublin. The course was aimed at upgrading their skills for their role as official spokespeople for the ISH.
New Leaflets and leaflet sale
We have added two new leaflets to our range to promote Homeopathy to the public – a general leaflet on Homeopathy and a leaflet aimed specifically at “End of Life Care”.
These and the current leaflets on Women’s Health, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Children’s Health and Healthcare in Later Age are available from the office. See order form in the “Downloads” area of our website under the “Useful Links” menu on the left hand side of the Home Page.
Leaflets cost 25c each plus €3 for post and packaging up to 1kg. There is a minimum order of 60 leaflets of any combination (€15).
Sale
We have a selection of leaflets with our old office address and have decided to sell these off. We will give an additional 20 leaflets for the price of 60 - that is 80 leaflets for €15 plus post and packaging. The pack will include printed sticky labels with our new address which members can apply themselves. Please contact the office.
Our new Homeopathy Calender
We are setting up a Homeopathic Year Calendar in the office to make sure ISH events do not clash with other meetings, seminars and college weekends. Could members please send us details of such events so we can include them in the calendar.
In addition we have decided to extend our FREE EVENTS LISTING for the Events Calendar on our website so we are inviting members to send details to us for inclusions.
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Lecture to RCSI Pharmacy students
Dr James Barlow, Lecturer in Pharmacognosy, at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland asked us if a member of our Society would give a lecture on Homeopathy to his students. Brenda Coller has kindly agreed to give this talk on behalf of the Society.
VHI
Don’t forget to keep collecting your patients’ signatures for the VHI petition. Please hold the completed forms and send them to the office before the end of October where we will put together a submission to the VHI.
The Society will have small ad in all the regional directories of the Golden pages with information on how to find a homeopath through our website.
The Golden Pages Dublin directory is now closed for listings. The regional directories are still open to place a FREE ad. Email: or Tel: 1-800-625-625.
WHAW
Remember World Homeopathy Awareness Week from April 10th to 16th 2009. Allergies is the theme of this year’s event. For further details, see the Members only area of our website and the WHAW website:
Homeopathic Times
Unfortunately the team which was supposed to publish the HT have unable to proceed and we are back to looking for a new group to take over this project.
A background in publishing would be an advantage as whoever takes this over will be responsible for all aspects of the journal including editorial, design, advertising and printing.
Anyone who is interested can contact us by email at