Diversity Training
In 2009 and 2010 Sligo County Community Forum in association with ‘Claire Galligan Training and Research’ will be delivering a range of events under the banner of ‘diversity training’ in County Sligo. The opportunity to carry out this action has been awarded by the Sligo Peace & 
Reconciliation Action Plan and is funded under Priority 1 – Reconciling Communities, Theme 1.1- Building positive relations at the local level.
All events are open to people involved with the community and voluntary sector in County Sligo. We would particularly welcome participants from the border Protestant community, Displaced/Republican community, Traveller community, young people and people from new communities. The events will be of particular interest to people who are working in a paid or voluntary capacity within the community sector.
See a list of the training events planned below. Specific dates for the events have yet to be set, but watch this page for updates …..
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Training Event
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November 2009 and April 2010 |
1-day Anti Racism/Sectarianism and Intercultural Training This one day session will focus on building participants awareness of their own attitudes and beliefs. It will invite them to explore the issues of power and privilege, prejudice and discrimination. The participants will gain insights into how racist/sectarian attitudes are created and reproduced in society and how each person can challenge these attitudes.
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Jan 2010 to March 2010 |
Accredited Training Programme in Intercultural Studies, FETAC level 5 This will take place one evening a week over 12 weeks. This course will allow participants to appreciate their own attitudes to other cultures and explore how cultures inter-relate. The course will cover What is racism/sectarianism; Exploration of Culture; Building analysis of interculturalism; analysis of levels where racism/sectarianism etc are played out; Intercultural Tension and Conflict and Responding to intercultural tension and conflict.
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April/May 2010 |
Working with Diversity in community projects’ case study residentialThis action will be targeted at community organisers and managers who are trying to address the issues of sectarianism and racism in their work. The aim of the project is to bring community organisations to visit a range of projects that are working to address racism/sectarianism. We will be looking at Ireland, Britain and Northern Ireland to find the right location. It is also hoped, as part of the residential that the groups will have a chance to discuss and explore the issues they are learning about and gain insights from key people working in the particular area. We will be targeting groups affected by racism/sectarianism living in the Sligo area as well as the wider community and voluntary sector. We also hope that the residential will forge bonds between different people working in Sligo to address racism and sectarianism.
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September 2010 |
Conference: Challenging racism and sectarianism using community development approaches’This conference will bring together experts from this field to talk about work they have undertaken to challenge racism and sectarianism through community development. It is planned that on the day there will be inputs from people who have been subjected to racism/sectarianism to share their stories and how community development may have supported them. In addition, it is planned that small group workshops on different themes will be held to help people develop their own responses and challenge their attitudes in relation to the subject.
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