All Right All Night Bystander Intervention training – Train the Trainer

This 'train the trainer' session, provided by UCC's Bystander Intervention team, will enable participants to deliver the 6 module All Right All Night training programme for secondary schools on how to be an Active Bystander. 

All Right All Night Bystander Intervention training, is already delivered in schools across Ireland and promotes a safer social, work and study environments for 16–24-year-olds, by helping them to better recognise problematic behaviour and equip them with skills to support each other and address problematic behaviour when witnessed. This approach enables a whole of society response that can effect real cultural change.

The training programme itself comprises 6 x 40 minute in-person modules which can be delivered to young people  aged 16 – 24 years in a secondary school setting.  The modules are:

1. Introducing the Bystander
2. Sexual Consent
3. Sexual Harassment
4. Bystander Intervention
5. Digital Harassment
6. Scenario discussion

The impact data clearly shows that young people welcome the opportunity to discuss and learn about the impact of these behaviours and to feel more empowered to make a safe and effective intervention when needed.

The 'train the trainer' session works through each individual module to ensure that secondary schools undertaking this facilitation training feel comfortable delivering this educational resource.  The slide decks and a comprehensive facilitators manual will be distributed to the participants upon completion of the training.

The training comprises of a 3 hour session, with a short tea/coffee and comfort break half way through.

Participants will be seated in small groups and encouraged to participate in the peer discussion during the training.

The session is often a personal learning experience as well as a professional credential.

About the Presenters

Louise Crowley is a Professor in the School of Law and Director of the LLM (Children's Rights and Family Law) at UCC. Her research focusses on the regulation of family formations in a more liberal Irish society, and the adequacy of the State’s responses to the needs of victim/survivors arising from familial and intimate partner abuse, with reference to our international obligations. Louise has published widely in peer reviewed national and international journals/books and is the co-author of the leading Irish textbook “Family Law”, which was awarded the Irish Law Book of the Year 23/24. At UCC, Louise has developed the award-winning Bystander Intervention initiative to educate and empower staff and students to challenge the normalisation of sexual abuse and to recognise their role as active bystanders to effect change and bring about a new normal of safety and respect. It is an evidence-based programme and widely recognised as an effective strategy to challenge sexual violence and other harmful behaviours. It is now delivered across Irish Third level campuses, at second level, to sporting organisations and increasingly in external workplaces. 

Céline Griffin manages UCC’s Bystander Intervention programme. She manages the rollout of this micro credential training within UCC, and oversees the rollout of the programme for staff and students across the Irish HE sector. Celine has created content for national educational programmes, including the Irish Research Council funded Secondary School Pilot Programme and provided training to secondary staff member school staff to deliver this pilot programme.

Céline has worked collaboratively with Professor Louise Crowley to secure two key national projects. Firstly, delivery of Sexual Ethics and Respectful Relationship training to the Irish Defence Forces which was awarded the UCC Consultancy Research Project of the Year for this work in May 2024.

Secondly, Celine has co-created and delivers training on the All Right All Night national project, developed in 2023, and funded by the Department of Culture, Communication and Sport. The All Right All Night Bystander Intervention Training programme, is aimed at youth aged 16 – 24 to empower them to act together for safer nights out.

The following bystander intervention promotional videos were created for social media as part of our All Right All Night Bystander Intervention project

• All Right All Night (Irish)
• All Right All Night (English)

This session will take place face-to-face in the Cork Education Support Centre