Restorative Practices Facilitation Skills Course: Level 2

This course will begin on Thursday 15th January 2026 and will run on the following dates:

January 2026

• Thursday 15th January
• Thursday 22nd
• Thursday 29th January

February 2026

• Thursday 5th February
• Thursday 12th February

March 2026

• Thursday 5th March
• Thursday 12th March
• Thursday 26th March

Time: 3:30pm- 5:30pm

Location: St. Mary’s NS, Virginia, Co. Cavan

This training course is open to school staff who have completed the C.D.I. Accredited Summer Course (20 hours) or the C.D.I. Getting Started with Restorative Practices (8 hour) course and it takes place over eight two hour sessions.

Participants doing this training learn how to facilitate: 

• Restorative Circles: These can be used to build good relationships or solve group problems.  
• Restorative Meetings: These are used to resolve conflict in groups and  
• Restorative Conferences: These are used to address serious wrongdoing. Restorative Practices conferences work on the basis that the wrongdoer takes responsibility for their actions, and the people harmed by the wrongdoing are supported to overcome and move on from harm. 

Participants who complete this course and the GSWRP course will fulfil one of the criteria for applying for the Training of Trainers Course, provided by CDI Tallaght. 

Facilitator: Richie Walsh has over 39 years of experience in primary education, including 23 years as principal of St. Mark’s Senior National School in Tallaght. In the last decade of his career, he led a school community dedicated to Restorative Practice (RP). As an RP Practitioner and Trainer, Richie works with school communities, teachers, SNAs, and parents, delivering training through the Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) as an Associate Quality Specialist. He teaches RP to undergraduate students at Maynooth University’s Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education. As an Oide Associate on the Health & Wellbeing Team, he provides RP training to primary school staff.  Richie holds an M.Ed from Maynooth University, a B.Ed from St. Patrick’s College, and a certificate in Restorative Practice and Mediation from NUI Maynooth.