Building Restorative Systems
Dates: September 13th - November 15th 2022
Time: 1pm - 3pm UK time
Now 10 weeks for extra practice!
Conflict is an inevitable part of life.
Just thinking about it can send your heart rate soaring, create tension throughout your body, and hijack your ability to think calmly and logically… But what if you could transform that energy into something life-enriching?
That’s what you’ll learn in this eye-opening course with Ceri, Sarah, and Jo.
For the past three years, these trainers have been pursuing a joint dream: that every NVC community has embedded within it a restorative approach to responding to conflict. Their offerings have attracted interest from around the world, and they’re now deeply excited to be able to offer their approach to you.
During this course, you’ll learn about the importance of system building, including:
- The set-up and maintenance of a system
- How to harness the buy-in and energy of key people in a community
- Developing a mindset that embraces conflict
You will also practice skills needed to:
- Set up, support, and facilitate dialogue, mediation, and restorative circles
- Stay grounded and calm in the presence of intense pain and hurt, anger, and disappointment
- Guide people towards making agreements that will help restore broken relationships and much more.
If you’re intrigued by the thought of feeling confident when facing any kind of conflict – if you’d love to see a working restorative system that belongs to your community – or if you’d enjoy owning the skills you’d need to set up and implement a restorative system for your community, please join Ceri Buckmaster, Sarah Ludford, and Jo Mchale for this richly transformational series.
Format
10 x 2 hr online Zoom sessions
Outcomes
We want to enable people to:
- feel more confident to walk towards their own conflicts and other people in conflict
- take steps to evolve a restorative system in their own context in a way that belongs to the whole community
- Developing a mindset that embraces conflict
- Developing the human resources necessary to respond to conflict
- Skill building (setting up and facilitating mediation and restorative circles, being with intense pain and hurt, working towards agreements)
- What do we mean by system building?
- What does it involve
- What are we committing to in ourselves when we set up a restorative system?
- What kind of agreements between people might be made?
- Understanding all the options in a restorative practice, and when each option is and isn’t appropriate
- Identifying and applying the pre-conditions of a restorative system. Identifying power, space, resources, communication and access, in your context.
- organisers of events and/or camps
- practice group leaders
- Admins and moderators of social media forums
- longstanding NVC community participants
- ‘weave’ participants
- who are curious about and want to explore how to set up a collective, agreed way of responding to conflict in an NVC gathering, camp or group.
What people have said about this training:
“I’m amazed at the amount of learning in just 6 weeks.”
“I’ve enjoyed being part of a group bringing conflict into the normal to and fro of life”
“I’m very grateful for a solid foundation.”
“I’ve enjoyed feeling like part of something bigger, a wider community.”
“I celebrate stepping forward and trying to host a circle. I didn’t feel confident but i recognise the value of stretching. That is really significant for me. ”
“My own edges are mastering being around conflict and not running away from it. I need to practice. I have a little shift in me around the conflict we practised.”
“I appreciate the systemic approach.”
For more information and booking see here.
Here are some short videos related to content. Please note the dates mentioned in these videos are for the course that took place in in 2019
What is a Restorative System https://youtu.be/ug4lEoFV3cI
What is a Restorative Flame? https://youtu.be/UZH2AjyzmGA
Why do we need a Restorative System? https://youtu.be/e9NaKC0u-AE
What’s good about conflict?! https://youtu.be/cnEkXQKis2U