Ep 16 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Dr Sue Redmond

Are children resilient? How can we equip young people, and adults, with the tools to live a happy and resilient life? How do we get past traumatic events and childhoods?

Dr Sue Redmond Mindfulness-Based Trauma Informed Coach and Child & Adolescent Development Specialist. She has a keen interest in resilience and has a PhD in Leadership, Resilience and Social Support. 

She develops resources and training for professionals particularly social workers, youth workers and teachers to equip them with the skills to change children and young people’s lives for the better. She has over 20 years experience of working with children, adolescents and professionals, with a particular focus on wellbeing, mental health, sexual health and leadership.  

Sue has developed over 25 resources and training that professionals use daily across Ireland and some at an international level.

These include: 

• The Irish Junior Cert Cycle (equivalent to the UK GCSE’s) curriculum on Wellbeing, Mental health and Sexual health. 
• The Manuela Programme – a Sexual Violence Prevention programme funded at the European level being rolled out nationally 
• Child & Youth Participation Strategy, Toolkit and Training for Ireland Social Work, Child and Family Agency’s Tusla’s 4000 staff 
• Gender-Based Violence Prevention Programme for Youth Work Ireland  
• University of Galway’s - Foundation in Youth Leadership & Community Action,  
• A Just Transition to Climate Change Programme for Youth Work Ireland 
• Youth Offending Behaviour, Health & Wellbeing, Youth Leadership, Youth Entrepreneurship for Foroige 
• Leadership Programme’s in the USA and Qatar 
• Sports & Arts programmes and Leadership programmes in Zambia 
• As well as research and strategy development for organisations.

She has a 20-year of practice in meditation (specifically vipassana), she is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, Yoga teacher and incorporates Somatic Experiencing and Trauma-informed processes into her work. 

Sue works with individuals and groups around anxiety, depression, sexual health, mental health and sense of meaning, purpose/direction in life to help people heal their past and create their future while living joyfully in the present. She also works at an organisational level around team development, leadership and conflict management. 

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You can find out more about Dr Sue Redmond and her work

Website: https://www.sueredmond.com/

Instagram: @sueredmondphd

Twitter: @verymessyjamie

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