Colin Craig

Colin Craig is the Development Director of TIDES. Colin has been involved working for reconciliation in Northern Ireland for over 35 years. Over his career he has worked professionally as a Youth Worker, a Director of a Juvenile Justice Project, a Principal Officer and Regional Consultant for a National Charity. In 1990 he became Centre and Programme Director for the Corrymeela Community, which is recognised internationally for its pioneering work for reconciliation in Northern Ireland. In 2000 he co-founded TIDES. His major interest is in the development of the new leadership necessary to bring communities through post-conflict resolution through to interdependence and reconciliation. His work involves the building training programmesboth locally and internationally on Conflict management and Diversity. In recent years he has trained extensively in Europe, Africa, Canada, USA and South East Asia. He has lectured and trained internationally on the themes reconciliation, equality and diversity, and conflict management.

Mary Montague

Mary Montague is Training Director of TIDES. Mary has an established reputation in inter-community work across many of the most contentious interfaces in Northern Ireland. Through her career she has worked for Quaker Cottage, the Corrymeela Community and in 2000 she helped co-found TIDES Training. Through her work as Training Director she has been responsible for helping design and deliver a new and innovative range of accredited training in Conflict Management and Good Relations etc. Mary has been key in both devising and piloting the Trainer of Trainers Programme with TIDES under the support of the CRC European Learning 
Fund. She firmly believes in building up the skill base for Community Relations and Conflict Management Training within 
Northern Ireland. Internationally Mary has developed and delivered training programmes in areas such as the Balkans, Afghanistan Pakistan region and Sudan.

Shona Bell

Shona Bell is an Assistant Director in TIDES Training. Shona is a qualified teacher and previously worked for Corrymeela as the Schools Community Relations worker. She is a highly experienced trainer in Conflict Management, Mediation, Group Work, Facilitation and Diversity Training with many agencies in Northern Ireland. Shona has also been proactive in developing curriculum for ‘e-learning’ diversity training programmes for the Civil Service, Disability Action and Queens University. Shona works internationally as a ‘Coach Trainer’ with Dialogue for Peaceful Change, and with a range of other agencies including Concern and OSCE, in the Balkans, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, India, USA and Georgia.

Liza Kelly

Liza Kelly is an Assistant Director in TIDES Training. Liza previously worked with Corrymeela as a family and community worker before joining TIDES. Liza is an experienced trainer in Diversity and Conflict Management programmes and carries a specialist responsibility for the development of the Labour Mobility Project and with Young adult groups. Liza has worked with young adults on a wide range of Community Relations based topics and to a wide range of groups. She has worked internationally in Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Sweden, Italy, Zimbabwe and San Francisco.

Gary Carpendale

Gary Carpendale is the  Office Manager and Company Secretary for TIDES Training. Gary has worked with a number of Statutory and Public Service Bodies both in Northern Ireland and in the Republic. He is responsible for managing the financial and administrative functions within TIDES. In addition as Company Secretary he ensures that TIDES fulfills its statutory and legal requirements as a limited company. Gary has a business degree and holds as a number of Postgraduate qualifications. He recently completed a Management Course in Queen’s University Belfast.

Enda Young

Enda Young is a Project Coordinator and Trainer with TIDES. He has been involved in Community Relations work for the last ten years and after his initial degree in Mechanical Engineering, Enda went on to complete an MA in ‘Theory, Culture and Identity’ from the Queens University of Belfast. He specialises in the use of outdoor experiential learning as a tool for conflict transformation and has previously worked as the Community Relations Development Officer for the Belfast Activity Centre.  Enda is an Accredited Practitioner of the Institute for Outdoor Learning, a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow.  He has also worked with a wide variety of groups both locally and internationally in South Africa, Canada, Thailand, and the United States.

Courtnae Dunn

Courtnae Dunn is a Global Education Trainer with TIDES. After volunteering with Corrymeela in 2007, her interest in Northern Ireland was piqued, and Courtnae  returned to explore that further. She completed a BA in History and Politics in the United States. Courtnae has worked as mountaineering guide in British Columbia, and as a community organizer for working families in Seattle. In the past years she has been involved in education and cultural preservation projects in Guatemala and Kenya. Drawing on her experience ranging from youth work, local politics, outdoor experiential learning, and cross cultural communication, Courtnae will examine community relations in Belfast along side the TIDES team.

Zand Craig

Zand Craig currently works as a Programme Assistant for TIDES Training. In this capacity his main areas of work involve training and support on our Labour Mobility programme and co-coordinating the sustainability networking group ‘the 7th Generation Project’. Zand holds an honours degree in Sport and Exercise Science, where he focused on the use of Adventure Learning for group development and conflict management. Zand is an accredited Open Space Technology facilitator and a 2009/2010 Challenge Europe Climate Advocate with the British Council. Along with a number of years of both voluntary and professional experience working in community relations in Northern Ireland, he has been engaged in projects in Israel & Palestine, Turkey and the UN COP15 Climate Change talks in Copenhagen.