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Le Chéile
Le Chéile is a programme aimed to develop your personal skills for proactive student-to-student assistance and intervention. Starting each Tuesday from Tuesday 30th September 2025 for 6 weeks, from 6-8pm in the Creative Zone, Boole Library. To sign up, please email lecheile@ucc.ie or alternatively, fill out this form: https://forms.office.com/e/aAFkP4d0gy
Le Chéile is a programme encouraging personal skill development for proactive student-to student assistance and intervention. The programme will run for six weeks, bringing together qualified experts, both internal and external to UCC.
Training will be scenario-based and tailored to the bystander intervention model, with a focus on what to look for and how to intervene in various situations. Over the 6 weeks, Le Chéile covers:
- Week 1: Mental Health and Wellbeing with Tom Tate (Why Mind) and Active Listening with UCC Counselling
- Week 2: Bystander Intervention with UCC Bystander Intervention
- Week 3: Suicide Awareness with Cork Samaritans & UCC Social Science Lecturer
- Week 4: Drugs and Alcohol with Pat Leahy, UCC Social Studies
- Week 5: Bully, Conflict and Speaking Up with Kate Moriarty, UCC
- Week 5: Reflection Week with UCC Chaplaincy Team
By the end of the programme students will:
- Be more proactive in looking after themselves and each other.
- Learn techniques and skills to enable them to recognise and intervene in various situations.
- Be able to analyse unhealthy patterns in the lives of their peers and themselves.
- Learn how to develop healthy habits to combat these patterns.
- Learn how to actively listen and communicate.
- Develop their own innate abilities to be able to assist and safely intervene where necessary.
- Know how to refer peers to further services that they might need.
- Be awarded a certificate for the completion of the START Suicide Awareness online training course.
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Starting Tuesday 30th September 2025 from 6-8pm for six consecutive weeks.
If you would like to sign up, please fill out this brief form: https://forms.office.com/e/aAFkP4d0gy
If you have any questions, please email lecheile@ucc.ie for further information.
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