Réalta has published details for Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2025 and is thrilled to reveal that Dr Tony Bates will be this year’s Keynote Speaker.  Dr Bates is a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at University College Dublin.  He is well known throughout Ireland for his warm and engaging writing and interviews on psychology-related topics.  For Check Up Check In, his Keynote title will be ‘The Art of Making our Lives Work’.  Arts + Health: Check Up Check In will take place on Wednesday 30 April in Esker Arts, Tullamore.  Organised by Réalta, this ‘go to’ event for the arts and health sector features presentations by some of the most exciting and inspiring practitioners working in this field today.  The fee for the full day, including lunch, is €30.  Click here to book your place Arts + Health: Check Up Check In is open to arts practitioners, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in learning more about this exciting area.  Check Up Check In provides an opportunity for participants to come together to share their experiences, exchange ideas, and support and inspire each other in their practice through a range of themed presentations and workshops. Keynote Speaker Dr Tony Bates was Head of the Dept of Psychology for 30 years at St James’ Hospital Dublin.  Following psychotherapy training at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford, he established the MSc in Cognitive Psychotherapy at Trinity College Dublin.  In 2006, he created Jigsaw, The National Centre for Youth Mental Health.  He trained as a mindfulness teacher at the University of Wales, Bangor, in 2001...