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Face to Face Restorative Practices Training

Introduction to Restorative Practices
​In Action

This course covers all you need to be able to undertake Restorative Enquiry and Conversations in your school, community or organisation.  It has been evaluated by teachers, social workers and parents as having changed their views of conflict and increased their skills to deal with conflict and connect better with their students and children in significant and permanent ways. 

In this course you will learn:

  • The Values and Principles underlying Restorative Practices.
  • A comparative analysis of the Traditional Model and the Restorative Model of conflict management. 
  • Why shifting from a blame culture to an accountability culture makes sense and how to begin to do this.
  • We look at behaviour as simple communication and the four messages being communicated with inconvenient behaviour. 
  • How shifting your your lens from "Won't Do" to "Can't Do" will not only increase action to address problems but will also reduce your and your students / children's sense of shame and associated negative behaviours.
  • The relationship between shame and disrupted development and learning in the classroom, the organisation and at home.
  • The underlying goals of inconvenient behaviour and how to address these goals so they are expressed conveniently.
  • How your discipline style has an impact on learning and development of independence.
  • The Three Pillars of Restorative Practice.
  • Restorative language, blaming and shaming language, restorative enquiry and restorative conversations.
  • Restorative Circles and Conferences and where these are best used and when.

All of the above is learned through reference to case examples, interactive case studies and small group exercises giving you the opportunity to practice and test out your learning. 
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Presentation materials will be provided in PDF format.

Large Group Presentations

We can also deliver Introduction to Restorative Practices in Action to large groups of up to 300 participants in a presentation style.

Presentation materials will be provided in PDF format.  

​​Developing Restorative Practices: The Whole School Approach

This training provides participants with the tools and knowledge to begin moving to a whole school approach. 
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Day One - Morning
  • The Big Picture - The Overall Education Model.
  • Who are the stakeholders in a conflict and to whom does the conversation of resolution belong? 
  • Your Bottom Line - The school’s needs and non- negotiables in a restorative frame.
  • Thinking about Best Practice in Restorative Schools
  • A needs led approach.
  • The “Won’t Do” Vs the “Can’t Do” Lens.
  • The Safety, Control and Respect Triangle
  • Thinking about the needs that arise from harm for all who are impacted.
  • The Upstairs and Downstairs Brain, our expectations and how to move from emotion to reasoning.

Day One  - Afternoon
  • The Core Skills of Restorative Practice
  • Moving from Denial to Admissions
  • Retraction of Responsibility in the Restorative Meeting
  • Recording & Reviewing Promises
  • Broken Promises
  • The Process of Facilitation

Day Two Morning & Afternoon
  • Using role play and case studies to practise the Facilitation Skills of
    • Restorative Enquiry,
    • Conversation,
    • Conferences,
    • Circles 

Presentation materials will be provided in PDF format.

Managing Aggression Restoratively

More and more educators are describing dealing with aggressive behaviour from children, parents, colleagues and leaders and often this feels frightening, unsafe for others and can spill into physical aggression.  This one-day training helps you to challenge your understanding of aggression, considers the basis of trauma and communication theories around dealing with aggression and helps you to learn the practical skills of what to do (and what NOT to do) in the moment.

Presentation materials will be provided in PDF format.