Restorative Practice Practitioner Training

The course has a large component of skills practice enabling participants to practice using restorative skills and exploring how this links to their own contexts. There is an emphasis on helping participants to feel safe and comfortable to learn. Learning resources and tools will be provided to all participants for use during and after the training.

Course Objectives:

Understand the principles and values of restorative practice and the philosophy and mindset that underpins the approach.

Understand how restorative practice differs from other ways of addressing harm and conflict.

Understand restorative language and themes that underpin restorative processes.

Learn and practice skills to hold a restorative conversation with one other person.

Learn and practice skills to deliver informal and formal restorative meetings including the importance of risk assessment, follow up, and review.

Explore a range of different restorative processes and how to adapt the approaches to use within one’s own work context.

Share knowledge and expertise.

Aims of Course:

Introduce the Restorative Approach – what is it? How does it differ from current practice?
Introduce Restorative Themes, Restorative Language, and Restorative Mindset
Learn skills practice for the informal and formal restorative process
Facilitate formal restorative meetings in various work setting
Understand and implement risk assessments to ensure safe practice

Course Outcomes:

By the end of this course, participants will be skilled in facilitating formal and informal meetings, one-to-one restorative conversations, circle facilitation, and formal meetings between multiple parties. They will be able to develop comprehensive risk assessments for safe practice.

Participants will be able to apply the restorative approaches to their daily practice in their workplace setting, including corridor conversions, my-turn-your-turn dialogue, and one-to-one readiness preparation for formal meetings.
Course participants will have access to tools, resources, and ongoing training opportunities and regular reflective practice.

Overview of Programme:

DAY 1

The Restorative Approach – what is it? How does it differ from current practice?
Introductory exercises/Learning Agreement
Four Choices Window and Nine Choices Window
“Traditional” versus “Restorative”
Harm exercise
Introducing the Restorative Themes
Skills practice of one-to-one restorative conversations

DAY 2

Skills practice including the whole restorative conversation one-to-one
From conversations to meetings
Meeting preparation
Group skills practice – the restorative meeting

DAY 3

Restorative Meetings Skills Practice and assessment
Problem Solving Circle
Values and Principles
Next steps and action planning