RP & Bí Cineálta for Middle & Aspiring Leaders
Conflict Literacy Skills to Prevent & Respond to Bullying Behaviour
This Programme is for you if you are:
- In a leadership role trying to figure out what Restorative Practice is all about.
- Seeking new strategies and language to build relationships and enhance effective communication amongst a team you are leading.
- Looking for ways to reduce your own stress levels and to understand the needs and emotions that drive conflict so that you can find, model and advise more effective ways to respond.
- Wanting to build your confidence and efficacy to deal with conflict using words that are windows and not walls.
- Looking to develop your facilitation skills with an explicit process such as Restorative Meetings to support those engaging with and affected by bullying behvaiours.
How Does It Work?
Mentoring
Face to Face Skills Development Training
Supporting practical modelling - the two course days run from 9:30am - 3:30pm (lunch included).
Resourcing
In-Hand Resources and Visual Supports
Enabling immediate implementation back in your school.
Practising
Access to Certified Self-paced Course
This course will serve as a great RP Buddy, a consistent reservoir, for anyone wishing to develop their restorative facilitation knowledge, practice and skills.
Register for Our Upcoming Workshops
Dates/Locations:
Dublin (Dublin West EC) - Day 1 25th November | Day 2 26th November 2026
Athlone (Sheraton Hotel) - Day 1 3rd February | Day 2 4th February 2027
Cork (Radisson Blu Hotel) - Day 1 14th April | Day 2 15th April 2027
Time:
- 10:00am - 3:30pm
Costs:
- Investment of €350 per person.
- **For discount on group bookings - hello@connectrp.ie
What Our Previous Participants Have Said...
Learned a huge amount about RP at Michelle's workshop. She is so engaging and full of energy. We had a lot of fun too. She makes everyone feel very comfortable about sharing their experiences and to discuss the areas where they wish to improve.
Barbara Capper
Michelle is an excellent facilitator. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience. She is great fun and is so engaging.
Programme Co-Ordinator
Brilliant day 2! The workshop is so engaging and has huge benefits for us as practitioners but also for our students and schools. Michelle was an excellent facilitator once again!
6th Year Year Head
I absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this workshop. I was honestly quite sceptical before I came but this was one of, if not the best training workshops I have been sent on. Michelle is so engaging, even after the lunch time slump! Excellent workshop, would recommend all teachers engage in it
Year Head
An excellent course that has provided my with the tools to restore and rebuild relationships.
Year Head/Teacher
This is a fantastic course with anyone who wishes to become more confident with RP and incorporating it in schools.
Assistant Principal
Very inspiring day! Michelle is amazing. Fabulous mix of theory, practice and skills. Feeling more confident about using RP in school.
Assistant Principal
The 2 day workshop for middle leadership was phenomenal. What really stood out was how practical RP is within the constraints of a school timetable. Michelle is an expert facilitator and provides lots of real examples, case studies, and resources you could use to help build a restorative culture over time. The workshop gave useful insight into the philosophy behind restorative practice, which helped make sense of why the approaches work, not just how to apply them. I came away with clearer language and structures for embedding RP. I’d recommend it to all teachers and leaders.
Lecturer - University of Limerick
Very worthwhile, particularly in relation to Year Heads, Bí Cinealta, and just bringing more empathy and care to my role
Year Head - St Josephs Rochfortbridge
A really engaging worshop with lots of practical advice and skills to bring to RP practice in school. Giving students the language that will be helpful in all relationships.
Year Head - Adamstown Community College
"This course was absolutely fantastic! Michelle is honest, realistic and inspiring. The ideas and resources she presents are practical. This course is very well-paced and it is tailored to meet you wherever you are at on your RP journey. I really liked how there was a focus on RP and Bí Cineálta but it was emphasised that it is better to have RP practices implemented in the school before using them to resond to an incidence of bullying..On this course you really get opportunities to stop and think but also to experience RP activities. I love that there is a free follow up course online with videos and resources. As a result you can continue to refresh the knowledge you have learned. I really enjoyed the course and when it was over I woukd have been happy to go back for another day! 10 out of 10 from me!"
