Practical training and certified courses to support your professional development
We provide a wide range of practical training and certified courses delivered by experts to support your professional development and work with young people. Alongside our scheduled training calendar, tailored and on-demand training to build your organisation’s capacity is also available.
BOOK UPCOMING TRAINING COURSES & EVENTS
The National Youth Council of Ireland has a number of upcoming training courses and events that can be booked online. Click on any of the events below to find out more about them, or click here to see all available training and events that you can book online.
Inclusive Youth Work and Skills Summary – Finding Our Language
This is a two-part training. In the first part, we look at embedding inclusive practice in your youth work setting. The second part introduces the online tool Skills Summary that helps young people communicate the value of the skills they gain when participating in youth work to future employers.
September 20 @ 10:00 am - 3:30 pm ISTMotivational Interviewing M.I.
M.I. is a conversation about change. It is an evidence-based approach to assist people to move forward. The technique is designed to strengthen motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person's own reasons for change.
September 24 @ 9:30 am - 4:00 pm ISTSTEAM in Youth Work Intermediate Training – Carlow
This intermediate-level training is ideal for you if you have already received introductory STEAM training and/or already use STEAM in your practice. You will complete a range of new STEAM activities and explore how including STEAM can add unique value to youth work and ways of capturing evidence of...
September 24 @ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm IST
TAILORED TRAINING COURSES
Tailored and on-demand training to build your organisation’s capacity. The National Youth Council of Ireland offers a range of tailored training courses in a variety of disciplines that we can run at your premises (or a convenient nearby location) specifically to upskill your staff members. Click on any of the featured courses below to find out more, or click here to see all available tailored training courses.
One World Week Workshops
One World Week Workshops will be a free 2 hour workshop aimed at young people and youth workers. The workshops will use non-formal development education methods that will connect young people and youth workers with Climate Change and taking action in their community.
Identify, Tackle, and Transform Hate Speech and Behaviour in Youth Settings
This course is delivered by a team of Trainers who worked with the National Youth Council of Ireland, in partnership with 4 European organisations- Peace Institute (Finland), Ljubljana Pride (Slovenia), Interfaith Scotland (UK), Hamoment (Portugal) on an innovative Erasmus+ funded project exploring how to transform hate in youth work settings.
Drama Techniques in Youth Work Settings
This tailored workshop is designed to address your needs as a facilitator by adding a range of drama processes to your youth work toolkit! It provides practical tips to ensure success and aims to enhance your creative ability, artistic skills and confidence when working with young people.
CERTIFICATE & IN-DEPTH COURSES
The National Youth Council of Ireland offers a number of Certificate and In-depth courses to help those working in the sector to improve their skills. Below you will see links to all the available courses in this category. Click on any of the items listed below to find out more about them.
Specialist Certificate in Youth Health Promotion
The National Youth Health Programme delivers the Specialist Certificate in Youth Health Promotion in conjunction with NUI Galway every second year. The course aims to encourage, support and facilitate youth organisations to become effective settings for health.
Programme Award: Certificate in Health Promotion (Level 7) – Specialist Certificate in Youth Health Promotion awarded by NUI Galway
Certificate in Youth Arts
Part time, year long university accredited course of study in Irish Youth Arts Practice managed and delivered by the Arts Programme at NYCI. The Certificate in Youth Arts aims to introduce those working in the non-formal education sector to the concepts, principles and practice of youth arts using a context and practice approach.
Accrediting body: NUI Maynooth, Dept of Applied Social Studies
Games in Youth Work – Engaging young people in climate action and development education
This innovative and exciting new programme will enable youth workers to use games to strengthen their practice while focussing on climate, environmental and development issues.
NYCI STEAM School 2019
This residential training in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) activities for youth work settings will help you explore pinhole photography and paper circuit art with youth arts specialists Brian Cregan and Maeve Clancy.
It is delivered as part of a collaboration between NYCI’s Youth Arts Programme and STEAM in Youth Work project, meaning participants will also be eligible to apply for a €5,000 Scientist in Youth Work Residency grant.
