You won’t want to miss the next National Restorative Justice Conference! Check out the site www.restorativejusticenow.org. May 13-15th in San Antonio Texas. I am working on my paper to present today!
SCVRJP will be holding a Circle Training on January 15 & 16 at the Restorative Justice Center in River Falls, WI. The cost to attend [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 31, 2008
Great Conference – Upcoming Training
October 30, 2008
Photo of the week – values
My best guess is 1,350 plates. I put a brand new stack of 150 next to this stack, tried to accomodate that the big stack is less compressed. I’ve missed the plates for a few circles. Each plate has a value written on it, and by someone I’ve had the pleasure of being in Circle [...]
October 28, 2008
Students say Circles are important!
Imagine that the First Lady of your state (the Governors Wife) is visiting students in your alternative/charter school. The students have an opportunity to share with her. Are you nervous what students would say? Curious?
Yesterday I got an email with the subject line: Proud Moment. I consider Kristin a friend of mine. She was emailing me [...]
October 26, 2008
Tip of the Week – Prepare!
Never underestimate the value of preparing! Another great quote I remember: Failing to prepare, it to prepare to fail.
Its very very important to remember to do this when facilitating Restorative Justice (conference or circle). I love to do trainings and workshops, those are also important to prepare for. Today I found myself preparing for one that [...]
October 26, 2008
Full Circle Experiences
Have you ever had an ah-ha moment? When things suddenly click into perspective.
What about an experience that suddenly made a past experience completely relevant?
Synchronicity? Finding the reason something else happened? Let’s call those Full Circle Experiences.
Here’s my first and might I add completely appropriate example.
SCVRJP was founded by Keith Rodli and Marlene Parslow. Recently I [...]
October 26, 2008
Site Update & heading explanation
As you can see, I’ve updated the site. I like three column layout. I removed the Category Cloud and replaced it with a simple list that keeps a count on the posts. You can click on a category and get to all the posts on that topic.
The header is from February 2007, I’m etching a [...]
October 25, 2008
Post Conference Depression!
I’ve got post conference depression. Having just spent 4 days around 500 other Restorative Justice practictioners, its back to reality.
Off the plane and on the shuttle back to my car . . . small talk with a fellow shuttle passenger. We got to the question “what kind of non-profit do you work for”. When asked [...]
October 23, 2008
Photo of the Week
I met many wonderful people at this conference and it was really fun to promote the books and Living Justice Press. So this week’s photo is a picture of the table display.
—Kris
October 22, 2008
RJ Conferences and Circles
Posting from the International Institute of Restorative Practices Conference in Toronto Canada!
Today I was volunteering at the Living Justice Press, book sales table. I got to interact with a number of conference attendees. I decided to volunteer, since LJP will be publishing an upcoming text on Safe Teen Driving Circles. (two links to other blog [...]
October 21, 2008
SCVRJP hits a new milestone
Last night we had a board of directors meeting for SCVRJP. Basic agenda items, reviewing our minutes, financial reports, updates by me the executive director. Your normal, kinda boring run of the mill stuff.
The have to stuff to keep an organization fully running and functioning. The board took action to move ahead with a marketing [...]
