Coercive Control & Domestic Violence Workshop
A 1-hour standalone workshop for senior students. Recognise the signs of coercive control, understand healthy versus unhealthy relationships, and learn about the legal protections available and how to seek help.
A workshop that could change a life.
Coercive control is one of the most insidious forms of abuse. It often goes unrecognised because it doesn't always look like abuse in the way young people might expect. There may be no physical violence, no visible bruises, no obvious moment of harm. But the impact is no less serious, and in Ireland it is a criminal offence.
This 1-hour workshop is designed for senior students at the age when relationships become more serious and patterns of behaviour start to define what students consider normal. Recognising the warning signs early, before any pattern takes hold, is the most powerful protection.
Discussion-led and age-appropriate, the workshop covers the legal protections available under the Domestic Violence Act 2018, how to recognise the signs of coercive control in your own or a friend's relationship, and exactly how and where to seek help.
- SPHE and Wellbeing teachers
- Year Heads supporting 5th and 6th year
- LCA Coordinators
- Guidance Counsellors and pastoral staff
Recognising abuse before it becomes a pattern.
The workshop gives students the legal knowledge and personal awareness to recognise warning signs in their own relationships and to support friends who may be experiencing abuse.
Coercive control is a criminal offence.
In Ireland, coercive control was made a criminal offence under the Domestic Violence Act 2018. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment.
This was a major change in Irish law. For the first time, patterns of psychological abuse, financial control, isolation from friends and family, and intimidation that did not include physical violence were recognised as criminal acts. The legislation closed a critical gap in how the legal system protects victims.
Students learn what the law covers, what evidence looks like in these cases, and how protective orders work. Knowledge of the law is the first step in being able to use it.
Book a Coercive Control & DV workshop.
Free consultation with Kate. We'll discuss how to deliver this sensitively for your senior students.