Contemporary restorative practice includes:
- Restorative Justice, which responds to harm with healing (in justice system programs);
- Restorative Practices, which are processes & techniques that help to build, maintain, deepen, & repair relations in communities such as schools, other workplaces, extended families, and so on;
- Restorative Engagement, which is a process in Redress Schemes to link individual recovery & institutional reform.
This webinar will describes the origins, evaluated results, and still-unrealised potential of each of these areas of practice
Key learning outcomes are understanding:
The different areas of restorative practice;
The different group conference formats used in restorative -justice, -practices, and -engagement;
How each group conference format transforms conflict into cooperation;
How communities of practice can support effective systems for process facilitators, program administrators, and evaluators to learn restorative skills on-the-job.
David B Moore PhD has been involved with the movement for restorative practice since the Australian group conferencing pilots of the early 1990s, and subsequent pilot programs in schools and workplaces. After working as an academic and policy advisor, he trained group conference facilitators internationally, and continues to work as a facilitator and trainer, and in organisational change management. In recent years, David has focused on: implementing redress schemes; integrating restorative practice with related approaches such as non-adversarial justice, and using restorative practices to provide school-wide support in relationship-based education, promote restorative just workplace cultures; and improve regional service delivery.
Alikki Vernon PhD has worked in conflict management and restorative practice for over 25 years. She provides technical support for program development and service-delivery in justice, health, education, and community contexts, including facilitating, and mentoring, & supervising colleagues in government and community agencies that respond to institutional abuse and family violence. Alikki coordinated the Conflict Management Program at La Trobe University for over a decade. Her doctorate is on the use of restorative processes in mental health systems. She now focuses her skills development work on training in restorative practice and coordinating Communities of Practice for the Australian Association for Restorative Practice.