About

The STEPS programme is delivered by North, East and West Kerry Development in Tralee, Listowel, Castleisland and Dingle.

The STEPS programme is designed to help you to unlock your potential by encouraging you to take a fresh look at your life. It helps you to see how much you are truly capable of achieving and offers tools to help you make it happen.

This course will help you to:

• Challenge your comfort zones.
• Think outside the box
• Develop Strategies for positive results
• Enhance motivation
• Setting achievable goals

Facilitator – Dee Keogh

A passionate advocate of social and equality issues, Dee Keogh could be described as Kerry’s own Oprah Winfrey.

She started out in Tallaght as an educator, community development worker and coordinator of the youth at risk programme which was a pilot project commissioned by the Department of Social Affairs in An Casan.

Since she came to Kerry in 2000, she has played a key role in the delivery and success of a number of NEWKD programmes helping countless numbers of people change their lives for the better.

From 2009, Dee served as coordinator of the Equality for Women Measure programme which developed into the Kerry Women’s Interactive Network. Tackling the invisible barriers of low self-confidence and poor self-belief, it engaged with over 400 women in the community helping many of them return to education and enhanced their involvement in local society. The initiative was nominated for an Aontas Award and a group met President Michael D. Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin.

Dee is a facilitator of the STEPS programme, a world-renowned personal and professional development programme. Over the last four years, she has delivered the training to hundreds of participants across Kerry assisting them in unlocking their enormous potential and achieving success in their lives. From overcoming addiction, going to college, landing their dream job or starting their own business, the incredible success stories of recipients were showcased in the Powering our Community conference which was held at the IT Tralee in 2017 and 2018 to widespread acclaim.
She also works with the TEAM project, a community drugs programme, which helps people overcome addiction.

Trained as an addiction counsellor and pyschotherapist, Dee has also worked as a freelance tutor, life coach and mentor. A resident of Ballybunion, she is currently writing her first novel ‘Why I haven’t met Oprah yet’.

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