IIRP - Facilitating restorative conferences: skills training

Course overview

This course prepares participants to run restorative justice conferences and to use restorative practices in their everyday roles.

Benefits

• brings together all those affected by conflict
• allows participants to come to a shared understanding
• provides a safe environment for the expression of emotion
• provides opportunities to rebuild damaged relationships
• rebuilds relationships and strengthens communities
• processes can be used proactively or reactively
• can be used within existing systems
• when experienced, advance on to our "Sensitive & Complex Cases" CPD
• pursue personal accreditation

Focus

• continuum of practice
• focuses upon restorative conferences with cases involving accepted responsibility
• introduces conferencing of cases where there is unacknowledged harmand/or unaccepted responsibility
• using the restorative conferencing script
• preparation of participants
• practical relevant role-play opportunities
• the role of the facilitator

Agenda & Materials

• group exercises to practice facilitating conferences
• feedback from experienced restorative facilitators
• exercises to look at dealing with acknowledged harm
• instructional videos and discussion

Instructional books:

• Restorative Justice Conferencing - combines: real justice (restorative conference case studies) and Conferencing Handbook (the restorative conference training manual).
• Student Course Workbook
• accreditation opportunities 

Each day runs 9am–5pm. (Registration 8.30 - 9am)