The Irish Timescovers other health matters
Healthy tips for night of horror
Play traditional games such as bobbing for apples, put nuts, raisins and a piece of fruit alongside sweets in Halloween goodie bags and make soup or muffins with the Pumpkin pulp. Just a sample of the healthy tips offered by nutritionists this week in advance of Friday's sweet splurge.
Ensuring that your children have a nutritious meal before they go trick-or-treating and that they brush their teeth especially well afterwards are other important things to remember.
Hypnobirthing classes for labour
Learning how to deal with the fear of labour pain can be as valuable as learning how to cope with the pain itself. Hypnobirthing classes aim to help women cope better in labour by learning in advance specific relaxation, self-hypnosis and breathing techniques.
Hypnotherapist Aisling Killoran will lead a series of four hypnobirthing classes for couples, starting on Saturday in the Stillorgan Park Hotel, Dublin. Cost: €440 per couple for four classes. Tel: 01 2986507 or see www.accomplish change.com for more details.
Feed the family nutrition course
How to wean children off junk food, how to read food labels and how to deal with fussy eaters. These are just three of the areas which will be covered in the Feeding the Family cooking and nutrition course which begins on Tuesday, November 4th.
Run by nutritional therapist Richard Burton and chef Maggie Lynch, the course will be held in Lynch's specially designed kitchen in Loughlinstown, Co Dublin over three consecutive Tuesday mornings from 10am until 12 noon each day. Course costs €180. For more details, tel: 01 2814039. See also www.thesoulfoodco.ie
Leadership with innovative slant
Managers keen to transform deep-seated historical organisational cultures and traditions may be interested in a two-day seminar entitled Innovative Leadership Development on November 8th and 9th in the Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin.
The experiential seminar will be run by Jan Dworkin and Brid Commins, both of whom are trained Process Workers.
Process Work is an approach which combines psychology, quantum physics, social activism and spirituality into a single model.
The seminar costs €250. Tel: 01 8251629 for more details.