Accredited community training

Qualifications for community work

OCN Northern Ireland accredited courses in good relations, identity, restorative practice, leadership and mediation — designed for people working in and with communities.

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Delivered to groups, in your own setting

These are accredited qualifications rather than awareness sessions. Each carries OCN Northern Ireland accreditation, its own credit value and its own learning outcomes, and each can be taken on its own or combined with others.

They are delivered to a whole group in the group’s own setting rather than as open courses, at a day rate with a 25% reduction for community groups. Some are covered by a funded programme.

Courses you can book a place on

Our practitioner qualification is an open course with published dates through the year, in person or online. Book a single seat, or have it run for your own group.

8 daysQualificationMediation Theory & PracticeThe full practitioner qualification. Eight days of theory, supervised practice and assessment, and the route to mediating professionally.£1,850per personBook a place

Courses we run for your group

Every course that suits community and voluntary settings. All of them can be delivered to a whole group in your own setting or online, at a day rate with a 25% reduction for charities and community groups.

A training day covers up to eight guided hours.

Skills courses

4 courses

Short courses, complete in themselves. No prerequisite, and nothing you are expected to take afterwards.

2 daysSkills courseAwareness of Conflict and Hate CrimeRecognising hate crime, understanding its impact on a community, and knowing what to do about it.Also run as Hate Crime and Harassment AwarenessIn-houseby arrangementEnquire 3 daysSkills courseCommunity Leadership SkillsLeading a group, a committee or a project when nobody reports to you and everything runs on goodwill.Also run as Effective Leadership SkillsIn-houseby arrangementEnquire 3 daysSkills courseIntroduction to Conflict Resolution and Mediation SkillsThe accredited grounding in mediation skills, for people already resolving things in their own community.In-houseby arrangementEnquire 2 modulesSkills courseAdversity, Trauma and Resilience AwarenessAdversity, trauma and resilience — including the legacy of conflict and how it carries down generations.In-houseby arrangementEnquire

Qualifications

8 courses

Accredited qualifications, assessed against the awarding body criteria and registered with OCN Northern Ireland.

5 daysQualificationConflict Analysis and Practical Mediation SkillsFive days of Level 3 practice: reading a conflict in its context, then mediating it with people who have to live alongside each other afterwards.In-houseby arrangementEnquire 8 daysQualificationMediation Theory & PracticeThe full practitioner qualification. Eight days of theory, supervised practice and assessment, and the route to mediating professionally.£1,850per personBook a place 3 daysQualificationContentious Issues: Identity and Cultural ExpressionParades, flags, emblems and bonfires — working with cultural expression where it is contested.In-houseby arrangementEnquire 3 daysQualificationRestorative ParentingRestorative approaches inside family life — repairing relationships rather than issuing consequences.In-houseby arrangementEnquire 3 daysQualificationUnderstanding Citizenship and IdentityWhat citizenship and identity mean here, and how to hold a conversation about them without it going wrong.In-houseby arrangementEnquire 3 daysQualificationUnderstanding Good Relations and Civic LeadershipThe practice of good relations work, and what civic leadership asks of the people who take it on.In-houseby arrangementEnquire 3 daysQualificationUnderstanding a Decade of Centenaries and its ImpactCommemoration, contested history, and how anniversaries land differently across a divided place.In-houseby arrangementEnquire 10 or 20 daysQualificationCommunity Relations, Equality and Diversity in Youth Work PracticeA full OCN NI Award (10 credits) or Certificate (20 credits) covering equity and diversity, prejudice and discrimination, equality and human rights, and the facilitation, leadership and mediation skills to deliver community relations work with young people.In-houseby arrangementEnquire

Speciality

3 courses

Advanced practice, for people who already have training behind them.

6 daysSpecialityAdvanced Group Work SkillsAdvanced group work for community settings — the skills for meetings where feeling runs high.Also run as Advanced Facilitation and Group WorkIn-houseby arrangementEnquire 6 daysSpecialityGroup & Systemic Mediation PracticeAdvanced practice for experienced mediators: multi-party disputes, systemic thinking, and conflict that runs through a whole team or organisation rather than between two people.In-houseby arrangementEnquire In developmentSpecialityCommunity Restorative PracticesRestorative practice at community level. Currently in development at Levels 2 and 3.In-houseby arrangementEnquire

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Tell us the group, roughly how many people, and what you are trying to achieve. We will tell you which of these fits, or whether something bespoke would work better.

Would rather talk it through? Book a 30-minute call.

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