BULLYING CONFERENCE: Workplace Bullying - Implementing Best Practise is the theme of a half-day conference on Thursday, November 9th in the Radisson SAS St Helen's Hotel, Dublin.
Speakers will include Dr Mark Harrold, clinical psychologist, and David Begg, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Topics to be discussed include how Irish organisations are responding to workplace bullying, how personality and interpersonal factors affect workplace bullying and what practical strategies can be used to resolve bullying. See www.bravo.ie/workplace bullying, tel: 01 6745930 or e-mail info@bravo.ie
DETOX WEEKENDS: The Cloona Health Centre in Westport, Co Mayo is winding down for the season with three weekend detox programmes in November. Running from Thursday to Sunday, the programme includes a full schedule of daily activities, including yoga, walking, sauna, massage and a detox diet. Cost is €450. Tel: 098 25251 or e-mail info@cloona.ie
OLDER PLAYS: Industrial Yarns is a play based on and inspired by the writings and stories of older people. Devised and produced by Shadowbox Theatre Company through its work with older people in healthcare settings, it will be performed at Liberty Hall Theatre from November 2nd-4th at 8pm and in Wicklow's Historic Gaol on November 9th and 10th at 8pm. The play will then tour health settings in the Leinster region. Tel: 01 2765091 or e-mail shadowbox-theatre@oceanfree.net
ANTHROPOSOPHIC TALK: Anthroposophic medicine is a form of therapy developed by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman in the 1920s. Now practised by trained doctors all over the world, it aims to treat the whole person - body, mind and spirit. A medicine based on the mistletoe plant in the treatment of cancer is one of the best known anthroposophic treatments. Weleda and Dr Hauschka products are also made using anthroposophic principles. Dr Nick Blitz will give a talk on anthroposophic medicine tomorrow at 8pm in Camphill Greenacres, Upper Kilmacud Road, Dublin. Tel: 01 2987618 for more details.
TRINITY FUNDRAISING: More than 500 Trinity College students will be out from 6am this Friday, November 3rd, dressed in T-shirts, scrubs and white coats, collecting money for The Rotunda and Coombe Women's hospitals. The monies will go towards buying vital life-saving medical equipment for the newborn intensive care units.
Lifelines is compiled by Sylvia Thompson