Service Description

✔ During this two-day introductory online experience, you will learn fundamental theory and practices for engaging with others in your community. ✔ Understand how Restorative Practices, as a way of thinking and being, facilitates the development of more connected, safer communities and enhances communication and understanding. Although the focus of this training is in the community, as a universal program it has application in many and varied settings such as schools and other organizations. This training is foundational for further restorative practices training. ✔ Enhance Communication and Understanding and Build Safe Communities using Restorative Practices. ✔ Learn the Program upon which Restorative Practice is structured for creating a positive climate, which you will be able to use immediately, following the one-day “Introduction to Restorative Practices” training. ✔ A Way of Thinking and Being: Restorative Practices provides a construct for acting restoratively within the community. It is also very well suited to education in general and in a variety of special education settings including but not limited to: schools, facilities, community programs, workplaces, and families. The aim of the program is to focus on making connections, strengthening relationships and in repairing harm as a way of building community. It shares the special education, inclusionary, integrated and proactive approach where a major goal is the effective reintegration of students when addressing situations where harm has been done. ✔ Utilizing a Socratic engagement style: this approach incorporates explicit practice; being firm and fair; the continuum of restorative practice; fair process; the restorative questions; a restorative practice checklist; and, a theoretical basis. By engaging in Restorative Practices, communities build on existing practices that already work; it is not meant to replace what is deemed effective but rather to enhance it. Communities embracing the Restorative Practice Program report a safer, more connected environment with healthier relationships as existing and new practices are framed through the restorative lens.