CDI offers a range of Restorative Practices (RP) Consultancy services. The benefits of Restorative Practices are firmly grounded in research and independent evaluations, and this evidence forms the basis for developing our consulting support. CDI takes pride in its experienced team of trainers and consultants, and its client list includes various reputable organisations.
Our approach is highly flexible. We provide tailored and competitive support while ensuring that any revenue generated is reinvested in CDI’s ongoing efforts in disadvantaged areas. With over 15 years of experience, CDI remains a reliable partner in delivering quality programmes and support.
CDI emphasises the importance of respect, trust, emotional intelligence, language, and awareness of power structures for implementing restorative practices. It also recommends using perspective-taking to create a culture change that allows restorative practices to thrive.
Implement Restorative Practices
We support and facilitate communities and organisations to develop and implement Restorative Practices in their organisation or community.
Developing clear and achievable Restorative Practices implementation plans, our bespoke consultancy services are designed to meet your specific needs.
Restorative Practices Mentoring
We also provide ongoing mentoring and training to organisations and communities embedding Restorative Practices.
Restorative Practices Communities of Practice
Restorative Practices Communities of Practice bring people in communities or organisations together to reflect on their use of Restorative Practices, troubleshoot, and share learning and best practices. We also provide booster training to upskill participants in line with expressed needs.
Restorative Meeting Facilitation
Restorative Meeting Facilitation addresses and resolves conflict between individuals, in groups, and between groups.
Restorative Conferences
We also facilitate Restorative Conferences to repair the harm caused by serious wrongdoing such as bullying or assault.
Contact Claire Casey on 087 280 6450 or at claire@cdi.ie to discuss your RP consultancy needs.
Restorative Practices Associate Quality Specialists
At CDI, we have a broad team of skilled Restorative Practices Associate Quality Specialists who have deep knowledge of Restorative Practices having trained to the highest level and applied it in all areas of their lives and work. Let us introduce you to some exceptional members of our RP Associate Quality Specialist Team who support our Consultancy services.
Restorative Practices Associate Quality Specialists
At CDI, we have a broad team of skilled Restorative Practices Associate Quality Specialists who have deep knowledge of Restorative Practices having trained to the highest level and applied it in all areas of their lives. Let us introduce to you to some of the exceptional members of our RP Associate Quality Specialist Team who support our Consultancy services
Noreen Duggan
Noreen, a PDST Associate and part-time CDI trainer in Restorative Practices, also teaches English to adults. As a Centre of School Leadership mentor and board chairperson, she began her career as a primary teacher in Newbridge and later taught in Zimbabwe. Noreen served as a community worker in Carlow before becoming the principal of Scoil na Naomh Uilig in 2007. There, she pioneered inclusive education practices, integrating students of all abilities and ethnicities. Introducing Restorative Practices in 2017, Noreen became a certified trainer in 2019 and earned an Undergraduate Certificate in Restorative Practices from the University of Malta in 2021. She further trained as a Restorative Practices ‘Champion’ in 2022.
Richie Walsh
Richie is an experienced practitioner, facilitator and trainer in Restorative Practices, with a strong commitment to transforming school communities. He is an associate Quality Specialist with CDI. As a life coach and certified CSL mentor, with over 35 years experience in education, as a school principal, he is passionate about nurturing positive relationships, empowering individuals, and promoting conflict resolution within educational settings.
Richie is chair of the Restorative Practices Ireland Communications Committee. At present, he teaches a number of Restorative Practices Electives to Third, Fourth Year and Post-graduate students in Maynooth University, Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education. He is an Oide Associate on the Health & Wellbeing Team, delivering Restorative Practice Training to Primary School Staff. He holds an M.Ed (Research in Practice) from Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education, Maynooth University, B.Ed from DCU St. Patrick’s College and a certificate in Restorative Practice and Mediation from N.U.I. Maynooth.
Paul Tierney
Paul originally trained as a social worker and has worked for over thirty years across a range of settings in Ireland, including child protection and family support, intellectual disability, regulation, teaching, and foster care. His first connection with restorative practice was in 2001 when he worked as a Family Welfare Conference Coordinator, facilitating family meetings, with HSE West in Galway, following the implementation of the Children Act 2001.
More recently, he set up his own business as an Independent social worker and mediator. His flexibility as a self-employed practitioner has allowed him to connect with creative initiatives that inspire his work. He is passionate about the potential of restorative practice and the opportunities it provides for individuals, organisations, and communities.
Paul holds two masters’ degrees from Trinity College Dublin, one in Social Work Research (Violence Prevention, Social Work and Schools / Action Research Project, (2000) and another in Health Services Management (2016). Paul trained as an RP trainer with CDI in 2022.
