Attuned in Practice Touchpoint October 2025

The rhythm of practice experience in health and social care.
Join us for a restorative half-day Touchpoint in the beautiful setting of Murphy’s Barn, Wexford, where we’ll explore rhythm, renewal, and connection in frontline practice.
This session offers a chance to slow down, reflect, and re-engage with what matters most in our work. Whether you’re in health, education, or social care, this space is for you.

Featuring:
Dr. Nicola O’Sullivan – Reflecting on rhythm and relational care in practice
Trish Goggins of Sing Well – Using voice, rhythm, and group connection as tools for renewal
The morning will close with a collective reflection and grounding before we part ways.Date: Friday, 24th October 2025
Time: 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Murphy’s Barn, Skeeter Park, New Line Road, Co. Wexford
Tea, coffee, and scones will be served mid-morning.

Attuned In Practice Alliance

At Attuned in Practice, we believe that all frontline practitioners deserve learning spaces to reflect and connect with their core beliefs, values, and the sense of purpose that drew them into their work or chosen career path. We know from our own practice that these spaces can be normative and restorative, helping to sustain us.

When practitioners are afforded the opportunity to connect and reflect on subjects central to their work, this shapes their practice for the better and sets them up to bring their best selves to work. Reflective, attuned practitioners then inform a better organisational and whole-system response to people using those services.

Our aim is to provide learning and reflective spaces for practitioners to come together. We choose reflective practitioners to lead and provide key insights, inviting deeper thinking and reflection on key aspects of frontline work in Health, Education, and Social Care. These practitioners speak from their own experience and practice, creating a safe and nurturing space that helps attendees think more deeply about their roles. The gathering and opportunity to share are supportive to attendees and help build a community with shared values and a collective understanding of the challenges and norms of working in frontline practice.

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Published Papers

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You go in heavy and you come out light

An interpretative phenomenological analysis of reflective practice experiences in an Irish infant mental health setting

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Creating space to think

and feel in child protection social work; a psychodynamic intervention

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Working in complex contexts

mother social workers and the mothers they meet

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Centre-based supervised child-parent contact in Ireland:

the views and experiences of fathers, supervisors and key stakeholders

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The danger of denying emotions in our work

BASW, Professional Social Work Magazine.

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Anchoring social care and social work practice

in structured reflection: introducing a model of group reflective practice