This year has been a very unusual and challenging one when many events which form part of our regular calendar have been disrupted by the Covid 19 restrictions.  A major highlight of our academic year is the IT Carlow Conferring Ceremony which is looked forward to with pride and pleasure by staff, students and families,  This year the ceremony had to take place online but we did not allow this to diminish our celebration.  We supplied graduates with academic dress and hosted a forum after the official ceremony.   Members of the GII Board, past graduates, current students and some family members joined with the staff to congratulate graduates on their achievement.

Pictured below (clockwise from top left) are:

Julien Joly, Jean Colleran, Fiona Clothier, Andrea Ragusa, Clara Slattery, Master of Arts in Gestalt Psychotherapy (Bernice Casey – in absentia)

Ruth Hanly, Sharon Murphy, Paul Adams, Pat Murphy, Tracey McNeela.  Postgraduate Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy

Congratulations to them all.

All 4th-year students took the exit award of Postgraduate Diploma this year.  We are not commencing the next dissertation module until summer when we hope some of the 2020 graduates will progress to Module 4.  Applications for this module are welcome from any of our past graduates – we would be delighted to hear from you.