The Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation is currently offering the the following courses offsite. These can be scheduled on request and can take place at an agreed location (Please note that the Glencree Centre itself is not in a position to provide meeting rooms at the moment). Groups should have a minimum of 8 participants. Prices can be discussed.
- Introduction to Conflict Management (2 Days)
To develop awareness and understanding of factors involved in working through and preventing escalation of interpersonal conflict in workplaces or communities.
- Creative Approaches to Addressing Conflict – FETAC Level 6 Accreditation (5 days)
Developing skills for dealing with conflict in interpersonal and community contexts. Analysis of factors involved and creative ways to help more positive outcomes emerge from conflict. Three assignments to be completed.
- Principled Negotiation Skills (2 days)
Ways to move from debate to dialogue, identifying common ground and conducting negotiation to find mutually beneficial outcomes. Are win-win solutions feasible? How to plan for and conduct negotiations around important and challenging issues.
- Exploring Diversity / Challenging Discrimination (2 days)
Looking at our own identity, prejudices and experience of discrimination and working towards practical ways to challenge sectarian and racist behavior.
How do we view and relate to ‘the other’, those who are different to us? Moving beyond ‘difference as a problem’ towards ‘interdependence’.
- Group Facilitation Skills (3 - 5 days) Can be FETAC accredited
Understanding group behavior and how we participate in groups. Developing skills to work with groups and host difficult conversations to help the group move forward. Introductory or more advanced levels available.
- Conflict Sensitive Reporting (2 days)
Developing awareness of how coverage of conflict can have a negative or positive impact on outcomes. How to analyze conflict situations and dynamics in order to contribute to a more sensitive and accurate coverage of violent conflict. For media practitioners or students.
- Exploring Legacies of the Past (2 - 4 days)
What do we mean by reconciliation? Based on the Irish experience, what is
required to move beyond the legacies of violent conflict? Is it better to talk about
our understandings and experiences of the past or to forget them? How can
commemoration assist reconciliation rather than intensifying divisions?
We explore ways to have conversations and develop actions that help to build
positive relations and contribute to a shared future.
