Upcoming Events

Dates for our training sessions are shown below. There is a film for most sessions which you must watch prior to attending. The Food & Health Seminars do not have films. Details of our Pines Sessions with Thriving Families & National Autistic Society are also included below.

Open to parents/carers, health professionals and education staff living or working in the Highland area.

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Printable pdf version of session dates 2025

  • Separate sessions for parents/carers and for health professionals and education staff.

  • Parents & Carers 1.00pm to 2.30pm

    Professionals 3.30pm to 5.00pm

90 minute Q&A session with Rachael Geddes based on a Pines film. Separate sessions for parents/carers and for health professionals/education staff. Education staff should book through the CPD Calendar.

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  • Parents & Carers

    Professionals

  • Parents & Carers 1.00pm to 2.30pm

    Professionals 3.30pm to 5.00pm

90 minute Q&A session with Rachael Geddes based on a Pines film. Separate sessions for parents/carers and for health professionals/education staff. Education staff should book through the CPD Calendar.

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  • Parents/Carers and Professionals

  • Time TBC

  • Time TBC

  • Time TBC

  • Time TBC

Online Webinars run by Dave Rex, Specialist Dietitian. Open to parents/carers and professionals in the Highland area. To be invited to register for one or more of the modules, click on the image to go to the Food & Health Seminars webpage.

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Unfortunately, we have had to postpone the Food and Health Seminars due to staffing issues. We will restart these as soon as possible however at this stage we do not know when this will be. In the meantime if you wish to be added to the list for future invites to the seminars, please email your details to this email address: paediatricdietitians@highland.gov.uk. Please provide your name, your child's name, email and telephone number. We will be in touch with future dates once we have them.

  • Parents & Carers

    Professionals

  • Parents & Carers 1.00pm to 2.30pm

    Professionals 3.30pm to 5.00pm

  • Parents & Carers 1.00pm to 2.30pm

    Professionals 3.30pm to 5.00pm

90 minute Q&A session with Rachael Geddes & Susan Jeffrey based on a Pines film. Separate sessions for parents/carers and for health professionals/education staff. Education staff should book through the CPD Calendar.

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  • Parents & Carers

  • Parents/Carers 1.00pm to 2.30pm

90 minute Q&A session with Rachael Geddes & Shona MacPherson based on a Pines film. Separate sessions for parents/ carers and for health professionals/education staff. Education staff should book through the CPD Calendar.

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  • Parents, Carers & Professionals

  • Options for Education

    10.30am to 12 noon

  • Neurodevelopmental Profile Wheel

    10.30am to 12 noon

  • Safe Socialising & Esteem Building - The Role of Technology in Neurodivergent Lives

    10.30 am to 12 Noon

90 minute sessions with Thriving Families & Alison Footitt of the National Autistic Society. Open to parents/carers, professionals and education staff.

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  • Professionals

  • Parents & Carers 1300-1430

    Professionals 1530-1700

90 minute Q&A session with some of the Pines Training team based on the Pines films. Separate sessions for parents/carers and for health professionals/education staff. Education staff should book through the CPD Calendar.

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  • For parents of newly diagnosed autistic children

  • Invite Only - Contact us if you would like to attend.

90 minute Q&A session with Rachael Geddes & Shona MacPherson based on a Pines film. This session is by invite to parents/ carers of children who have been recently diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.

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  • Parents & Carers

    Professionals - EYPs, Health Visitors & School Nurses

  • Parents/Carers 1.00pm to 2.30pm

    Professionals 3.30pm to 5.00pm

90 minute Q&A session with Sarah Hewat, Neurodevelopmental Advanced Practitioner and Sleep Practitioner, based on the Pines film. Separate sessions for parents/carers and for professionals - Early Years Practitioners, Community EYPs, Health Visitors & School Nurses . Early Years Practitioners should book through the CPD Calendar.

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  • Parents & Carers

    Professionals

  • Parents & Carers 1.00pm to 2.30pm

    Professionals 3.30pm to 5.00pm

90 minute Q&A session with Rachael Geddes & Shona MacPherson based on a Pines film. Separate sessions for parents/carers and for health professionals/education staff. Education staff should book through the CPD Calendar.

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  • Parents/Carers & Professionals

60 minute Q&A session with Lesley Soffe, based on a Pines film. This session is for parents/carers, health professionals & education staff. Education staff should book through the CPD Calendar.

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