Certificate in sphe

Department of Health Sport & Exercise Science with the School of Lifelong Learning & Education in partnership with the HSE.

Postgraduate

Certificate in Social Personal and Health Education Minor Award to the MA in SPHE (Level 9)

Central to the SPHE programmes at WIT is the development of facilitation skills which will enable participants to work effectively in many settings including schools. The focus on personal development supports participants to discover that when they empower themselves to be well, they can support others to reach their potential to be well. The advanced modules in facilitation skills and personal development provide students with a unique opportunity to build upon their SPHE training to date and further enhance the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies resulting in effective facilitation of SPHE with groups, individual, and key populations.

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About the Certificate in SPHE - Minor Award (Level 9) Programme Aims By the end of the Certificate in SPHE - Minor Award (Level 9) participants will be able to:

n Demonstrate a further understanding of the use of self in the role of facilitator;

n Apply experiential methodologies to facilitate their peers in the n Competently work with diversity and complexity exploration of effective facilitation; which emerges in a group;

n Demonstrate their capacity to provide containment and create a n Evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in safe climate within a group; facilitation and offer appropriate feedback to others in the group;

n Demonstrate competency in the safe use of skills and interventions required for effective facilitation;

n Translate insight into action;

n Make effective contact with self and others;

n Work with, and evaluate, their own process;

n Demonstrate a capacity to self evaluate;

n Critically evaluate their understanding of the significance of n Articulate their understanding of psychological separation; their own development process.

Programme Subjects For the award of Certificate in SPHE - Minor Award (Level 9) you need to accumulate 30 credits.

SEMESTER 1 Advanced Facilitation Skills (Level 9)

20 credits

5 evenings and one residential weekend

10 credits

3 evenings and one residential weekend

SEMESTER 2 Advanced Personal Development (Level 9)

Unique Delivery of the Programme

■ Student needs are central to the delivery of the Advanced Modules in SPHE. In that regard, while in the same learning environment a group of 16 students can choose the level of academic study that meets their own needs (Level 7, 8 or 9). For further information on Level 7 or 8 please contact the course leaders.

■ Assessment will distinguish the different learning levels of students.

■ Upon successful completion, those who opt for Level 9 will be awarded a Certificate in SPHE - Minor Award that they may build upon to acquire an MA in SPHE over time, subject to the feasibility of running the remaining modules at WIT. ■ Participants must attend at least 80% of the course hours in order to pass the course.

Entry Details

Testimonials

To study at level 9, participants must hold a level 8 qualification (ordinarily 4 years study leading to an honours Bachelors Degree). All participants must have completed the Higher Diploma in SPHE (WD538) or the Extra Mural Certificate in SPHE or equivalent. Entry on these modules is subject to successful completion of an interview.

“When I was asked to write a testimonial for the Minor Award in SPHE, I thought a lot about what I was going to say about it. However, the truth is, I have no words that can adequately describe what the Minor Award has meant to me... All I can say, is that, having completed the H Dip in SPHE, it was truly “the cherry on the cake”! It “bedded in” the H Dip and used it as a foundation to built upon. It has expanded and enhanced me both personally and professionally. I feel privileged to have been given the opportunity to work at this level in such a safe and supportive environment, and to have this work academically accredited at level 9.

Fees For information on fees please visit www.wit.ie/pgfees Please note that there is an additional cost for residential weekends only.

Applications Course Code: WD579 Please apply online at www.pac.ie

Contacts Admission Queries contact Postgraduate Administrator: Tel: +353 (0)51 302225 Email: pgace@wit.ie Academic Queries contact Course Leaders: Dr. Paula Carroll Ms. Mairead Barry Tel: +353 (0)51 834141 Tel: +353 (0)51 302165 Email: pcarroll@wit.ie Email: mlbarry@wit.ie

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Ann Rackard “SPHE for me has been my Crown and Glory!!! I can now say that the programme gave me the opportunity to discover me from the inside out. Creating the safety for the individual. Bound by a collective group sharing, to be with all that is presenting from past experiences and that is impacting on the present felt experience. It was both challenging and triumphant in its unfolding process. I got to know me and in turn to know you (all of the external world) in a different way. I have stopped wanting the world to be other than it is. Owning my end of it and just be with what is present. The only word that can describe the SPHE process is TRANSFORMATION!!!!! I encourage you to begin, to discover your true self in the collective group process that is SPHE!!!”

Martin Doheny, Facilitator/Trainer/Researcher in Men’s Health

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