Our fundraising will help Pieta provide
9 helpline hours
2 crisis counselling sessions
1 therapy sessions
“In the end, you will be judged not by how much you won or lost, but by how much you contributed.” – Rahul Dravid
Bowling into Light on Sunday 11th May
Bagenalstown Cricket Club are supporting Pieta House Darkness Into Light 2025 to raise greater awareness as well as vital funds for Pieta and people affected by suicide and self-harm.
JUST COME ALONG!
The event at Bagenalstown Cricket Club (R21 XW29) will commence at 430 a.m.. There is NO requirement to sign up or to donate for you to join us and take part. You are so welcome to just come along at 430a.m. on the morning of 11th May. NOTE - We are delaying the event by 24 hours until the Sunday morning because of match commitments on Saturday 10th.
IN 4 SIMPLE PARTS
This dawn event on Sunday 11th May is organised in four parts:
Part 1 - 430 a.m. - 4 45 a.m. A Boundary walk; 2 laps, the first lighting candles and the second will a be a silent lap for reflection.
Part 2 - 450 a.m. - 530 a.m. A game of soft ball cricket at dawn.
Part 3 - 530 a.m. - 6 a.m. - A dawn breakfast; BYO breakfast favourites and tea/coffee and refreshments will be provided for free.
Part 4 - 6 a.m - 630 a.m. Fun Team Building Games demonstrating how to overcome what you think are big problems.
KEEPING IT REAL
Please feel free to donate as little, or as much, as you are comfortable with. Remember - pressure should only be for tyres and stress should only be for steel!
There will also be donation buckets on the morning of the event for anyone who would like to privately donate a few €uro.
85% of Pieta's funding comes from fundraising events like Darkness Into Light, which is proudly supported by Electric Ireland.
You can help keep Pieta's essential services FREE and available to anyone who needs them by donating now to help us reach my fundraising goal.
For example a €24 donation could help answer two calls to Pieta's 24-hour Crisis Helpline for someone in suicidal distress. You can help Pieta to save lives.
Thank you so much for your support.
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Wednesday 30th April 2025 - National Workplace Wellbeing Day
Wednesday 30th April is National Workplace Well-being Day. For more information - check out National Workplace Wellbeing Day - IBEC
What is NOT Well-being!
As you consider National Workplace Wellbeing Day you may be considering a Wellbeing initiative. The most important first step is acknowledging and appreciating that well-being is not the same as wellness, and is not to be confused with similarly worthwhile mental health initiatives. While well-being can contribute to aspects of our resilience, it should not be assumed that workplace well-being initiatives will improve our resilience to do even more with less (definitely not!).
What is Well-being?
In his book ‘Flourish –A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being –and How To Achieve Them’ (2011) Doctor Martin Seligman identifies that well-being is a construct: and well-being and not happiness, is the topic of positive psychology. Well-being has five measurable elements (PERMA) that count toward it:
•Positive Emotion (of which happiness and life satisfaction are all aspects)
•Engagement
•Relationships
•Meaning
•Achievement
No one element defines well-being, but each contributes to it. Some aspects of these five elements are measured subjectively by self-report, but other aspects are measured objectively.
For more about PERMA, check out - PERMA™ Theory of Well-Being and PERMA™ Workshops | Positive Psychology Center
What is a simple well-being initiative for National Workplace Wellbeing Day 2025?
There are many positive psychology interventions but, considering the wonderful weather forecast for Wednesday 30th April, then every workplace should be making time for Noticing Nature. For different, effective ideas, the please check out - Mindfully Connecting With Nature | Psychology Today. Thank you!
Happy Workplace Well-being Day; carpe diem!
“An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.” – Mark Twain
Flintoff - streaming on Disney from Friday 25th April
Learning More About Suicide and Self Harm
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi
It may come as a surprise to some that there are a range of training and education courses available that deal with suicide and self-harm; it will come as an even greater surprise that two of the courses - ASIST (2-day) and safeTALK (1/2 day) are both FREE (funded by the HSE National Office).
best of luck