HECA Healthy Campus 2025/26 Webinar Series

As part of the HECA Healthy Campus 2025/25 webinar series and to mark World Mental Health Day on October 10th, we bring the first of the series focusing on managing loneliness and supporting resilience at higher education. The title of the webinar is: Managing Loneliness and Resilience in Higher Education through the lens of Personal, Professional and Educational life Balance

Webinar Presented by: Martin Nunan, (Student Support Lead, Psychotherapist & Career Guidance Practitioner)

Date: Friday 10^th of October 2025
Time: 1pm online

To Register: Go to this link

Overview: The webinar will address the themes of loneliness and resilience in an ever-changing world for students in Higher Education and how we can develop the tools and approach to manage the unique balance of education, professional and personal life.  In an ever-busy post Covid world, we are now busier and more contactable than ever before in the history of human existence.  For many that has been overwhelming, to the point that we have more contact with people yet feel so isolated as these connections are not physical or interpersonal but are cyber.  How do we manage this content yet stay connected to the everyday needs?  The webinar will identify key strategies and supports both familiar and external to help in build resilience and awareness in managing the sense of loneliness being experienced in the higher educational setting  

Bio: Martin is a practicing Counsellor since 2010 and Psychotherapist since 2018.  He has over 25yrs experience working in the disability sector in the Ireland and the United States where he developed and delivered programmes through advocacy that have had lasting impact on the positive changes from the old workshops structures to the development and leadership in the role out of the IRFU Disability Ruby programme and involved on the National New Directions assessment of needs roll out when with the HSE.  Martin went on to manage Acquired Brain Injury Ireland community and residential services in the midlands for five years supporting the impact in the ever-changing health environment during Covid.  Post Covid and in a shift through a year of looking at his own Search for Meaning, Martin took up the opportunity to supporting students with Hibernia & IICP College with a specific focus on well-being in recognising the commitments of students and supporting students through difficult life experiences though innovative and student-centred approaches in their educational journey.