CPI Members Network meeting
2026-11-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-12-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2027-01-12 11:00 - 12:00, 2027-02-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2027-03-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2027-04-13 11:00 - 12:00, 2027-05-11 11:00 - 12:00, 2027-06-08 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) and 6 more dates
Each month CPI holds our peer to peer network meetings which are facilitated by our current Chairperson. It’s a safe, inclusive space to meet others, to chat, share and support each other. Our membership feedback regularly mentions the importance of speaking with others where they can chat openly without judgement and connect with others.
This event is open to members of Chronic Pain Ireland and if you would like to join, membership is €22.00 per year. See here for more details.
Many of our members have formed life long friendships as a result of attending CPI events, workshops and taking part in research. Please, consider becoming part of our community.

Guided Mindfulness & Meditation for Chronic Pain
2026-12-02 19:00 - 20:00 | online, Ireland
Guided Mindfulness & Meditation for chronic pain

How can mindfulness help chronic pain?
There is now a growing body of research to show that mindfulness programmes, often referred to as Mindfulness-Based Interventions or MBI’s, can have a positive effect in a range of situations, one example being that MBI’s have been found to reduce pain intensity (Paschali et al 2023)
During Brain Awareness Week in 2024 we were delighted to launch our newest online support service in collaboration with Alfie Golden (see bio below) who will facilitate a small group of CPI members through a mindfulness and meditation session with time at the end for reflection and questions. These events are safe, inclusive, open and engaging and we hope that you enjoy the experience. Alfie explains that ‘in the context of mindfulness, we might speak of two types of pain – primary and secondary. Primary pain is the physical sensation we experience with illness or injury. Secondary pain relates more to the thoughts and emotions that accompany primary pain. For example, we might label the physical feeling of a broken bone or a cut as primary pain and the accompanying worry (“How am I going to work with a broken arm?”, “What if this doesn’t heal properly?”) would be secondary pain.
Mindfulness can’t directly help get rid of the primary pain but can drastically reduce our secondary pain, which often has a longer lasting impact on us.
Mindfulness can help us to manage the mental/emotional side of long-term illness by changing our relationship to our symptoms, reducing the amount of worry, anxiety or stress that goes with them. This can then actually lower the amount of primary pain we perceive.
We may not have control over what is happening to our bodies but by developing a sense of kindness and compassion towards ourselves, along with the ability to clearly see our experience, we can change our experience of pain and learn to live well with it.
These stand alone sessions will run on the following Wednesday’s at 7pm however it is vital that you register in advance as places are limited. To register please log into your account via https://chronicpain.ie/my-account/

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Facilitated and guided by Alfie Golden a graduate member of the Psychological Society of Ireland and accredited by the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland. Having graduated from UCC with both a degree in Applied Psychology and a master’s degree in Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing, he has been practicing mindfulness meditation for over 10 years and is passionate about helping others to discover the benefits for themselves of following evidence-based training in mindfulness.

Alfie offers courses in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindfulness in the Workplace, talks and workshops along with one-to-one mindfulness training and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Pain Management: Chronic Pain Booster & Implementation Workshop
2027-08-18 10:30 - 12:30 | online, Ireland
Pain Management: Chronic Pain Booster & Implementation Workshop
Our series of nationwide online courses and workshops look at ways to manage and cope with the challenge of chronic pain. As you will know, pain management involves adapting to change by adopting a new set of habits that are often the opposite of what we are used to. It’s no surprise that it’s hard to do!
People often fly high for a while after a course or workshop, but it’s easy to lose momentum and slip back into those old unhelpful habits. With this in mind, we are pleased to offer a bi-monthly session which focusses on helping you to regain the motivation to get back in to the habit of pain management.
These sessions are open to anyone who has completed any of the following: Living Well courses, CPI “5 week” course, all 12 CPI workshops or a hospital run pain management programme. The sessions are there for you to bring your questions and to explore whatever is needed to help you to re-invigorate your pain management habit. The aim is to give you a boost, perhaps to re-assure, to re-motivate or just to know it’s ok to keep doing what helps.
The sessions are not so much about new information, rather they’re about finding ways to put what you know back into practice. The sessions will be friendly and interactive. The topic(s) and focus are set at the start of each meeting within the group.
Chronic Pain Ireland has for many years offered self-management training for all living with chronic pain and are partners with the Pain Association Scotland, who (having pioneered the development and delivery of self-management training) have run community programmes for over 20 years. Both CPI and PAS share mutual aims of helping to improve the quality of life for all living with chronic pain. The focus of these interactive workshops is therefore on introducing people to, and quickly building, self-management skills, thereby creating practical, positive change leading to an improved quality of life and well-being. Our trained facilitator has delivered over 10,000 workshops to date.
These nationwide online workshops are offered to members of Chronic Pain Ireland.
To avail of all our chronic pain support services including: self-management workshops, telephone support line, chronic pain courses and programmes, online meetings, webinars and networking opportunities Join here
