FACE TO FACE: RESTORATIVE PRACTICE SKILLS FOR PROMOTING WELLBEING IN CLASSROOM AND SCHOOL

Restorative Practices (RP) are both a philosophy and a set of skills that have the core aim of building strong relationships and transforming conflict in a simple and emotionally healthy manner

This Course Will:

• Provide participants with knowledge and understanding of the use of RP in schools;
• Skill participants to use RP to support their teaching practice;
• Skill participants to use RP to support their work and life outside the classroom;
• Inspire and enable participants to use restorative skills in their work and life; and
• Explore the potential of a Restorative approach for creating and maintaining a positive relational environment in the classroom and school as a whole.

Primary Only: Teachers who attend the full 20-hour summer course will qualify for 3 extra Personal vacation days. 

What Participants have to say about our Summer Course:

"Highly enjoyable training, delivered in a professional and clean manner with a fantastic injection of humour."

"I really enjoyed the training and it will really benefit me in both my personal and professional life."

"I found the course to be very insightful and of good quality.  The Facilitators were very knowledgeable and helpful in the sharing of skills and advice."

"I thoroughly enjoyed the training and will be recommending my staff train up as I believe RP is the way forward."

Andy worked for many years as a Training Consultant with both the NHS and Social Services in the London and South-East England areas. He devised and delivered training, to staff working with people with learning disabilities, and worked directly with service users themselves. Using pro-active approaches, he also coached and mentored staff to support service-users, who displayed behaviour that seriously challenged services.

After moving to Waterford in 1999, Andy managed The Pathways Project for 11 years, with the Waterford & South Tipperary Community Youth Service, providing mentoring supports and Progression Programmes to Early School Leavers. He then managed the School Completion Programme (SCP) Na Siúire, in Waterford City and South Kilkenny, for 7 years.

In 2011, Andy became a Certified Trainer, with the International Institute of Restorative Practice (IIRP) and in 2016, a Certified Trainer of Trainers. In 2014, he co-founded the Waterford Restorative Practice Network.

Andy joined the Childhood Development Initiative in 2017, as a Quality Specialist and has facilitated all CDI’s training, and training of trainers’ courses, both face-to-face and online; notably, with a number of schools in Munster. Between 2019 and 2021, he was involved in the writing, co-delivery and assessment, of an online Professional Training in Restorative Practices (TReP) course, as part of an Erasmus+ programme.

For the last 10 years, Andy has also, devised and delivered a number of QQI Level 4, 5 and 6 courses, with asylum seekers and refugees, in Waterford City and currently works with the Mukisa Project.

PLEASE NOTE SUMMER COURSE FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE