You can’t do Restorative Justice without community members. I believe they bring in collective wisdom. I train our volunteers on aspects of Restorative Justice, and request they show up with their best selves.
I focus on Restorative Justice Accountability as being:
acknowledging you caused harm
understanding that harm from anothers point of view
recognizing where you had choices
take steps [...]
I had the good fortune of speaking on a panel. The focus was social justice, we were given the task to define this, and explain it relevant to our Pledge of Allegiance ” . . . with liberty and justice for all . . . “. I was in the middle of the line up so [...]
In Bikram Yoga, (my blog links, one with a video) the poses are held for 30 or 60 seconds. As you feel your body tense and you are struggling to hold the pose (in the 104 degree room). The teacher will say “change”. As smoothly as possible, you move to the next position or the pause [...]
People that participate in Circles with me, become really honest about what they thought at first. This honest testimony about what people thought about a Circle at first, and what they think now is an endorsement for the process.
The most recent description like this used the term ” kooky“. It’s been mentioned that they seemed wierd. One advocate [...]
A few recent events pulled this post together.
1.) At the IIRP Conference, I teased the Prosecuter in attendance, asking him if he was lost. It was just a little sarcasm about the different philosophies sometimes held by ‘prosecution’ and ‘restorative justice’. I then shared with him how I appreciated prosecutors that took initiative in using [...]
Lets put value on ‘belonging’.
Look at all the books on LOVE. The efforts at PEACE. Not to minimize the importance of either of these but what if we learned to make people feel like they BELONG.
What about embracing our own selves, and our own place in our community.
How do we nuture our own belonging. How [...]
Upcoming Trainings available.
CESA 7 in Green Bay – Nov 18 & 19, Course description and more courses on the CESA webpage.
Trainings for 2010 that will be held at the Restorative Justice Center – January 21 & 22 and April 15 & 16. Limited seating, and the workshop investment is $200.00, which includes lunch, snacks, handouts and [...]
When facilitating a Circle, I try to always point out the Center. I explain that we all see the same items, but we each have a different ‘perspective’.
Depending on the purpose of the Circle, I get more into explaining how no one person owns the truth. When people sit around in Circle, in the round [...]
I have blogged about relationships. A lot. Right now I have 87 posts in the Relationships category. I’ve shared about my personal relationships and all the relationships restored by restorative justice. I hope I’ve given you tools in seeing people in the context of their relationships.
Today’s blog is about being mindful of the relationship to [...]
I was drifting around the internet searching out successful bloggers. I ran into Zen Habits, featured on a list. Only a few minutes on the site and I joined the 100,000 others that are subscribed to this blog.
As I read the post The World Needs You to Do What You Love, I thought about how to [...]
