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Our Programmes

  • Reflective, action-based research
  • Participants with leadership potential/roles in communities embark on journey of deep dialogue
  • Uncovers the role of faith in cultivating positive relationships between people, and addressing divisions caused by faith
  • Accredited and non-accredited training
  • Group storytelling out of which relationships are built with the ‘same’ and the ‘other’
  • Spread the learning and deepened relationships from the core group process within participants’ local areas
  • Single-identity programme, occurring as part of a parallel process across an interface/generation/locality/national identity divide
  • Leading Ladies builds the capacity of women to step into their own leadership at their own level

Pádraig Ó'Tuama

Pádraig, originally from Cork, has been in Belfast since 2003, involved primarily in peace and reconciliation work in the education and faith sectors. He is currently following up on a B.Div degree with an MTh in Narrative Theology from Union College in Belfast. He has a deep interest in the role of religion in peace and conflict, and has worked and spoken on the interplay of religion and dialogue in Ireland, the UK, the Middle East and South Africa.. A published poet and essayist, he has written poetry on themes of storytelling and peace for many years, developed as a tool particularly through Corrymeela's storytelling programmes under Peace II.

Pádraig currently works as the fieldworker for the Faith in Positive Relations activities of the Irish Peace Centres.