Training Opportunities

Educators and Student Leaders – Training and Professional Development opportunities

At secondary school level, we offer:

• Second-level Teacher Training to support you in facilitating and delivering the Active* Consent for School Communities programme in your classroom.
• Second-level Parents’ Seminar for participating schools.
• First Point of Contact Training in partnership with Galway Rape Crisis Centre. to provide you with the skills and knowledge to deal appropriately with a disclosure of sexual violence, and increase awareness of the causes and effects of sexual violence. (Staff / Student Leaders)
• “Consent, Sexual Violence and Harassment: Practitioner Skills & Practice” Level 9 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) module – see below for more information.

Consent, Sexual Violence and Harassment: Practitioner Skills & Practice (PS6158)

This Continuing Professional Development (CPD) module supports individuals involved in implementing programmes and initiatives related to consent, sexual violence and harassment. In particular, we draw on examples related to the Consent Framework (‘Safe, Respectful, Supportive & Positive: Ending Sexual Violence & Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutions’) promoted by the Department of Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science, work with post-primary schools, and other community settings.

While the content will specifically target the education and post-primary sectors, we welcome participants who are working in areas such as youth work, community organisations, the Defence Forces, An Garda Síochána, etc.

Sexual consent, sexual violence and harassment (SVH) are critical issues in educational settings. This module equips participants to design and support student engagement and organisational development, through coverage of areas such as:

• Critical understanding of consent and SVH.
• Designing, implementing, supporting and evaluating consent and SVH programmes.
• Skills for training, workshop facilitation, collaboration and group work.
• Policy, guidelines, and frameworks.
• Principles of organisational culture change.
• Communication/interpersonal skills.
• Interpersonal skills to support receiving a disclosure.

This module will support participants to achieve or extend relevant knowledge and skills and provide an opportunity to share and discuss their learning. It is envisaged that participants will have a range of experiences and backgrounds – for instance, in student services, college administration, counselling and wellbeing, academic programme management and research, and agencies/organisations relevant to education and research.

The module team will provide a clear structure and framework for your learning, encourage you to identify the specific areas you wish to focus on and support these paths, working together with all module participants as respected partners to promote a learning community to share knowledge and problem-solving capacity.

The module covers three main topic areas:

• Designing, supporting, and evaluating education and development programmes on consent, sexual violence and harassment for students and staff.
• Supporting organisational change through staff development, training in receiving disclosures, and acting as a resource for organisational culture and climate change.
• Developing policies and best practice to underpin institutional and procedural change. The module is led by the Active* Consent programme.

Application Deadline: February 9th, 2023, 5:00pm

To find out more about this course, email eva.obyrne@universityofgalway.ie or click here »