View the conference schedule and presentation materials (where provided).

Breakout Sessions

• Violence- and Trauma-Informed Prevention Micro-Mapped within the Social Discipline Window — Art Fisher, Nancy MacDonald (powerpoint)
• Change the conversation, Change the Culture — Peter Block (video)
• Preparing Future Educators to Implement Restorative Practices in K-12 Classrooms: The Challenges and Possibilities — David Fletcher (powerpoint)
• Taking A Restorative Approach to Expel Disparities in School Discipline — Keith Hickman (powerpoint,article, paper 1, paper 2)
• The Power of Restorative Practices PLUS a Social Emotional Skill-building Program: One School District’s Story — Bridgid Normand, Karen Sorensen (powerpoint, handout 1, handout 2, handout 3, handout 4)
• Transforming School Culture in an Asian Context through Restorative Practices: A Singapore Perspective — Lin Lynn Koh, Yan Hui Tan (powerpoint 1, powerpoint 2, powerpoint 3)
• Racism Stops with Me: How White Folks Can Use Healing Circles to End Racism — Mika Dashman (handout)
• Using Restorative Principles to Build a Community Conversation — Susan A Cherry (powerpoint)
• Refugee and Immigration Circle Conversation — Vidia Negrea (statement)
• Introduction to Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change — Elizabeth Smull, Sarah Santin (powerpoint, handout)
• An Open Conversation: Challenges Facing Restorative Practitioners Embedded in Highly Adversarial Criminal Justice Domains— John Cutro, Terry O’Connell, Constance M. Ives-Fenton (handout 1, handout 2)
• Using Circles to Support Instruction in a Predominantly Male, Diverse Population— Suzanne McMurtray, Christina Krabitz (handout 1, handout 2, handout 3)
• Restorative Play Works: Reap the Restorative Benefits of Play and More — Barbara Kickbush, Sherry Burdick (powerpoint, handout 1, handout 2)
•  The Best Is Yet To Come: Unlocking Restorative Practices’ True Potential — Terry O’Connell (powerpoint)
• Barking Up the Right Tree: Using Restorative Justice to Shift the Paradigm of Animal Abuse — Debra Vey Vonda-Hamilton (handout)
• Special Needs and Restorative Practices — Margaret Thorsborne (powerpoint)
• Giving Peace a Chance: Implementing Middle School Restorative Conferences Using Students as Facilitators — Jennifer L. Williams (handout 1, handout 2, handout 3, handout 4)
• Kiss Your Assets: One Way to Build a Restorative Hub — Rick Kelly, Amy Taylor, Sewsen Igbu (handout 1, handout 2, handout 3)
  
• Head and Heart: Scaling up the Restorative Paradigm Shift in School Systems, Large and Small — Nancy Riestenberg (paper- This article was originally published in the Restorative Practices in Action Journal: for Schools and Justice Practitioners, 2015, New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice form Children.)
• Enhancing Supports to Reduce School-Based Arrests — Tecenia Casiano, Jeana Bracey, Tianna Hill (powerpoint, handout 1, handout 2)
  
• Intercultural Competence and the Social Discipline Window — Lynne Lang (powerpoint - in PDF format)
• The Criminal Justice Matrix: The Baby from the Bathwater — Cynthia Pong, Shailly Agnihotri (powerpoint, article)
• Community Juvenile Justice that Works: Shifting the Paradigm from Punitive to Restorative — Yejide Ankobia
• Enhancing Application of Restorative Practices: Best Practices, Practice Wisdom and Peer Supervision — David Deal (powerpoint)
• Leading in a Restorative Community — Margaret Thorsborne (powerpoint)
• Embedding Restorative Practices and Circles into Teacher Education: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle — Trista Hollweck, Kristin Reimer (powerpoint, handout)
• Sustainability of Whole-School Change Through Restorative Practices: An Independent Action Research Study — Maureen Calvo (powerpoint, paper)
• Achieving Safer Schools from the Inside Out: A Youth Empowerment Strategy — Rick Phillips (powerpoint, handout)
  
• Virtue-Based Restorative Discipline: Responding from the Inside Out to Bullying Behaviors — Lynne Lang (powerpoint - in PDF format)
  
• Can Restorative Practices Help Bring About Democracy 2.0? — Joshua Wachtel (paper)
• Changing the Conversation: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High — Sharon Mast (powerpoint, handout)
• Shame and Shaming: How We Hurt Others and Ourselves When Shame is Unresolved — Jane R Pennington (powerpoint, handout 1, handout 2, handout 3)
• Peer-to-Peer Prevention Program: Partnership of Evidenced-based Bystander Education and AOD Prevention Strategies — Rick Phillips (powerpoint, handout)
• The Relevance of Restorative Practices to Implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child — Hazel Thompson-Ahye, Krystle Ahye (powerpoint 1, powerpoint 2)
• Unleashing the Unique Influence of Young Restorative Practices — Wendy S. Lesko (powerpoint)
• Blending PBIS and the Restorative Approach in a Large Urban District — Kim DeGeorge, Kristina C. Jackson (powerpoint)

Breakout Sessions

• Restorative Theater Performance — Xochitl Avalos, Martin Porto (powerpoint)
• Should We or Shouldn’t We? Integrating Restorative Practices with Bullying Prevention and Intervention Practices (English) — Lee Rush, M.Ed., Jane Riese, L.S.W. (powerpoint)
• The Best Is Yet to Come: Unlocking Restorative Practices True Potential (English with Spanish interpretation) — Terry O’Connell (powerpoint)
• Asking Great Questions for Circles (Spanish) — Miguel Tello (powerpoint)
• Restorative Practices, Affect Script Psychology and Neurodiversity in Education (English) — Nicola Preston, M.A. (powerpoint)
• The Successes and Barriers in the Building of a Restorative School Community (Spanish) — Ana María Muñoz de Luna, Karla Gómez Aranda (powerpoint)
• A Restorative Journey into Latin America (Spanish) — Jean Schmitz (supplemental information)
• Mediation Counselling: A Method of Conflict Resolution for Restoring Families in Crisis (English) — Ann Diaz M.S.W. Dernielle Diaz (powerpoint)
• Restorative Practices in Community Life and Educational Communities (Spanish) — Maritza Alvarenga Chicas Marroquin (powerpoint,handout)
• Rethinking Story Retelling: What We Are Learning about Trauma Recovery (English) — Pepper Black (handout 1,handout 2,handout 3,handout 4,handout 5)

Patty and Dereck Stonefish, the founders of Arming Sisters/Reawakening Warriors, were featured in a Restorative Narrative by ivoh fellow Christa Hillstrom. (Photo by Dan Koeck/YES! Magazine)

Engagement, empowerment and resilience — concepts integral to restorative practices — are also informing the development of a new genre of media and journalism called Restorative Narrative. Images of Voices and Hope (ivoh), a nonprofit that will present at the IIRP World Conference in October, believes that Restorative Narratives can enable media to create meaningful, positive change in the world.

In the past few years, we have seen the inequitable, negative impact of zero-tolerance policies on African American boys, in particular. These policies, however, have had a similarly harmful impact on African American girls.

In September, Monique Morris, Ed.D., author of Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (The New Press, 2016), participated in the White House Rethink Discipline conference. In October, Dr. Morris presented at Restoring Community: 21st IIRP World Conference in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Morris, who has been a scholar and social justice activist for over two decades, discussed the experience of African American girls in schools.

As tensions across Europe heighten around the association of Muslims with terrorism, the RecoRa Institute works directly with youth at risk of becoming extremists to reduce violence and transform lives.

Tánaiste and Minister of Justice & Equality Frances Fitzgerald will give an address to attendees of the IIRP Europe Conference at a reception held at Castletown, Ireland’s largest and earliest Palladian style house.

In this guest blog, IIRP lecturer Nicola Preston reflects on the IIRP Europe Conference, which took place May 9-10, 2017 in Dublin, Ireland. Preston (pictured on left) is IIRP Adjunct Faculty; teacher and special educational needs coordinator; Ph.D. student at the University of Northampton, UK; and trustee and senior restorative practitioner, Thames Valley Partnership.

Below the article, please find a list of all sessions and links to presentation materials.

"A world that is smaller and more connected than ever before requires new ways to learn and teach," says IIRP President John W. Bailie, Ph.D. "This conference will explore cutting edge pedagogy, community development and how insights into social and emotional development will change how children and adults learn in the 21st Century."

As the pendulum in U.S. schools continues to swing away from punitive discipline policies toward a more holistic approach to improving school climate, a host of presentations at the 23rd IIRP World Conference, Learning in the 21st Century: A Restorative Vision, will explore elements of this development.

Featured speaker Pamela Randall-Garner, Ed.D., Senior Staff Advisor for the Collaborating Districts Initiative of CASEL (Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning), will focus on several important aspects of these efforts in her presentation, “Building Supportive School Communities,” including social and emotional learning (SEL) for students and staff, equity for students of diverse backgrounds and the role of restorative practices to support those efforts.

Breakout Sessions

• A Dynamic Blended Family: When Restorative Practice Marries Family Therapy – Anne Martin, Ph.D., Jennifer Bowen, M.Div., RMFT, RP (powerpoint)
• Becoming a Restorative Community: The Journey of ChildStrive – Mary Cline-Stively, M.A., Rebecca Mauldin, M.P.A. (powerpoint)
• Brighter Futures: A Vision for a Restorative Learning Community in Dublin, Ireland – Emma Wheatley, Karen Mooney (powerpoint,handout)
• Bringing Ontario's Equity and Inclusion Education Strategy to Life – Laura Di Ianni, M.Ed., Mike O’Neill (powerpoint)
• Building a Restorative Toolkit: One Technique at a Time – Sue Jamback, Tyler Radtke (powerpoint)
• Change the Conversation, Change the Culture – Lee Rush (handout,booklet,powerpoint)
  
• Circling Closer to Ourselves: Mindfulness and Self-Directed Neuroplasticity in Restorative Practices – Jeff Catania (Google Doc links)
• "Cultivating Community" Restorative Practice School Projects: Measuring Our Impact – Danielle Hunter, James Reilly (handout,powerpoint)
• Dynamic CBO/School District Partnerships: Effective Collaboration Transforming Schools to Restorative Communities – Lucille Rivin, Matthew Guldin (powerpoint,handout 1,handout 2,handout 3,handout 4,handout 5,handout 6,handout 7)
• Education as a Community of Care: Walking the Restorative Talk to Build Inclusion – Kelly Krug, Sayema Chowdhury (powerpoint)
• Family Group Conference for Child Welfare and Juvenile Delinquency: A UK Perspective – Shahed Chowdhury, Ph.D. (powerpoint)
• From Victim and Murderer to Allies and Friends Changing the Justice System – Glen Flett, Margot Van Sluytman, M.A.,
  CSJA (paper)
  
• Healing a People: How Restorative Practices Can Help Repair the Harm of the Past – Cordell W. Riley, M.Sc., JP, Hashim Estwick, Lynne Winfield, FCIS (powerpoint)
• Institutional Change for Developing Compassion Integrity – Dave Trejo (powerpoint)
• Leading and Sustaining Restorative Practices in Schools: The Journey of Administrators and Teachers in Toronto – Christina Parker, Ph.D., Fiona Brougham, M.T., Judith Kramer, M.Ed. (powerpoint)
• More Than a Shame: Knowledge Mobilization and Theories of Change – Rick Kelly (handout,powerpoint)
• Motivational Interviewing: A Restorative Practice Approach for Guiding and Sustaining Change – Richard Rutschman, Ed.D. (powerpoint - pdf format)
• No One Listens to Me!: Restorative Parenting Giving Voice to Children and Parents – Albert Felts, M.A., BCE, Angela Isenberg, BCE (powerpoint)
• Organizational Structure for Improving School Culture: Doing Whatever It Takes to Build a Strong Foundation – Janique Cambridge, M.Ed., Shanell George, M.S.Ed. (powerpoint)
• Panel – Indigenous Communities Engaging in Restorative Action to Promote Reconciliation – Bryan Trottier, Donald Nicholls, Gayle Desmeules, Jessica Wolfe, Kirsten Manley-Casimir, Ph.D., Losty Mamianskum (powerpoint)
• Panel – Leading Change Through Restorative Justice Approaches – Bruce Schenk, Cpl. Darren Munroe, Howard Sapers, Jordan Diplock, Kelly Adamson, M.A., CVA, Selena Guildford, Tim Chapman (paper)
• Panel – Taking Restorative Practice into the Workplace: Learnings and Challenges – Anne Martin, Ph.D., Leslie Macleod, LL.B., LL.M. (ADR), Mark Vander Vennen, M.A., M.Ed., R., Scott Milner, Terry O’Connell (powerpoint 1,powerpoint 2,powerpoint 3)
• Peacemakers: Peers Helping Peers to Solve Schoolyard Conflicts – Stephen Young (powerpoint,handout 1,handout 2,handout 3, handout 4)
• Project Blueprint: Increasing Police Referrals to Community-Based Restorative Justice Programs – Cpl. Darren Munroe, Jordan Diplock (paper)
• Realizing the Potential for Restorative Communities in Rural Northwest Alberta – China Sieger (paper)
• Refugee Displacements and the Impact on Community Life – Alia Sheety, Ph.D., Frida Rundell (powerpoint)
• Reorienting Organizations: New Management Ideas Supported by Restorative Practices – Stijn Deprez (powerpoint)
• Restorative Circles: Implementation, Building Community and Practicing Mindfulness – Amanda Cannon, M.Ed., Amanda Ramkarran, M.Ed. (handout,powerpoint)
• Restorative Practices – The Process Works! – Jon McGill (powerpoint,handout)
• Restoring “Explosive” Students: Strategies for Students with Chronically Challenging Behaviors – Shawna Griffin, M.S. Ed.S., Stephen Shepherd, M.A., Ed.S. (powerpoint, handout)
• Restoring the Urban Gang Member: “Keeping the Brain and Body in Mind” – Carlos Alvarez, M.A. (powerpoint - pdf format)
• Social Justice Dialogues in College Residence Halls: Building Relationships and Addressing Impact – Alex Boesch, Magdalena Gracia, Rafael A. Rodriguez (powerpoint)
• Some Challenges in Sustaining Restorative Justice in the Criminal Justice System: Lessons from Northern Ireland – Tim Chapman (powerpoint)
• Sustainable Leadership in Restorative Practices: Making the Changes Stick – Leonard Cheong, Noorzura Amir Noordin (powerpoint 1,paper 1,powerpoint 2,paper 2)
• Sustaining Restorative Practices in Higher Education Through Residential Curricula – Kaleigh Mrowka, Lauren Teresa Mauriello (handout,paper 1,paper 2,paper 3,paper 4)
• System-Wide Change: Building Strategy Networks to Grow Restorative Practices in a School Board Region – Scott Milner (powerpoint)
• The Times They Are A-Changin": Restorative Practice and the Workplace – Anne Martin, Ph.D., Bill Bickle (powerpoint)
• Tools and Successful Practices for Restorative Schools – from Those Who Use Them! – Peggy Hargrave, Saundra Reynolds, Shelley Steele, Stan Baker, Stephen Young (powerpoint)
• We Wear the Mask: Can Restorative Practices Realistically Help Marginalized Communities Heal from Systemic Oppression? – Lori Harris, MRPYC (powerpoint)
• Whose Religion Matters?: Exploring Emotional and Cognitive Responses to Boosting an Interfaith Restorative Community – Alia Sheety, Ph.D., Lisa Ratmansky, M.A., Rasheeda Ahmad, Ed.D. (powerpoint)
• Why Restorative Practices Work in Any Context: The Importance of Explicit Practice – Terry O’Connell (powerpoint)
• Widening the Lens: Sustaining Restorative Practices in Elementary Schools by Making Connections – Cathy Hird, M.S.W. (handout 1,powerpoint,handout 2)
• Workplace Restorations in Conflict Situations – Blaine Donais, LL.B., LL.M. (ADR), RP, Michelle Phaneuf, P.Eng., C.Med. (powerpoint)

"Relationships and strengthening the fabric of communities have always been key to our work." - Alice G. Thompson, CEO Black Family Development, Inc. (BFDI)Detroit community groups are gearing up to share the extraordinary work they are doing to help make Detroit a restorative city at Strengthening the Spirit of Community, the IIRP World Conference in Detroit, MI, October 24-26, 2018. Sponsors are providing scholarships for Detroit community members, bringing a new level of connection and engagement to the conference.

In this series of interviews, our sponsors tell about their work and why they think you should join them at the conference!

First, Alice G. Thompson, CEO of Black Family Development, Inc. (BFDI), explains why BFDI is a Champion Sponsor and is hosting the IIRP World Conference.

What prompted you to sponsor community scholarships to the IIRP World Conference in Detroit?

It's BFDI’s goal to establish in Detroit a restorative practices city, one community at a time. We believe in the spirit of community, and we want to work with communities to strengthen that spirit. That really is our heartbeat. Our neighborhood community circle keepers, our residents, our schools, our police, our organizations, are training in restorative practices. They are coming together to improve relationships, reduce tensions, repair harm and take control of their neighborhoods. We want to expose them to a broader vision of restorative practices, give them new ideas and spark innovations: things they can do in own neighborhood and their city. 

Why should people come to Detroit?

To learn, share, pick up new ideas and receive innovations. Folks are doing unique things here that people can borrow. Our community-engagement circles are truly empowering residents. This work is really worth looking at. Our young people are leaders on how to use restorative processes to improve social connection and repair harm. I have not seen anyone as steeped in community-based work with restorative practices as we are here in Detroit.

This article is second in a series featuring sponsors of Strengthening the Spirit of Community, the IIRP World Conference in Detroit, MI, October 24-26, 2018.University of Michigan-Dearborn is a Champion Sponsor, providing scholarships for Detroit community members and bringing a new level of connection and engagement to the conference.

In this interview, Tracy S. Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Office of Metropolitan Impact, and Amy Finley, Ph.D., Dean of Students, explain the importance of restorative practices to their campus and why they would like you to join them at the conference in Detroit!

"We are deeply committed to being a restorative campus." - Tracy Hall, Ph.D.

Tracy S. Hall, Ph.D.

What prompted you to sponsor community scholarships to the IIRP World Conference in Detroit?

Restorative practices is crucial to global and community healing. U-M Dearborn is an anchor to our community. We want to support our community doing this important work, so they can do it better. If the community can't get to the conference, how do they learn and buy in?

Why should people come to this conference? 

To be inspired, to be informed and enriched, to find other people who see the world as a positive place to be. To strengthen their mental muscles in their practices, to be reinforced. To feel refreshed and refueled and renewed. It's easy to focus on the negative. Restorative practices provides a chance to see human frailties and see beauty come out of the cracked and broken. 

"The conference is an opportunity to bump shoulders with the restorative elite, who live and practice restorative practices on a day-to-day basis." - Robert Thornton, Senior Program Officer, Skillman FoundationThis is last in a series of interviews of sponsors of Strengthening the Spirit of Community, the IIRP World Conference in Detroit, MI, October 24-26, 2018. Sponsors are providing scholarships for Detroit community members, bringing a new level of connection and engagement to the conference. Robert Thornton, Senior Program Officer of the Skillman Foundation, explains why Skillman is a Supporter. He speaks about Skillman's work and why you should join them at the conference!

What prompted you to sponsor community scholarships to the IIRP World Conference in Detroit?

The Skillman Foundation has been supporting the restorative framework in Detroit for several years. I believe in its transformative powers. I have seen what can happen when people commit to building restorative communities with fidelity. So it makes sense to expose as many residents as possible to restorative practices. 

Why should people come to this conference?  

1. We're going to have a gathering of some of the best minds in the world who’ve been working in this platform for a very long time, all in one place. 2. You're going to come to a city that is in the midst of a renaissance as a major place in this world. And most important, it's an opportunity to bump shoulders with the restorative elite, who live and practice restorative practices on a day-to-day basis. 

Lea los materiales de presentación.

El jueves 05 y viernes 06 de marzo del 2020, IIRP Latinoamérica celebró el congreso internacional “Justicia y Educación con Visión Restaurativa” en la Ciudad de México. Más de 100 participantes de 11 países diferentes (Brasil, Chile, Perú, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, España y Estados Unidos) se reunieron para compartir experiencias y proyectos restaurativos que han venido estableciéndose en América Latina  con una rica variedad de perspectivas y abordajes. Este evento representa una oportunidad para contribuir con el sentido de comunidad entre personas que trabajan justicia restaurativa, la socialización de buenas prácticas y el propósito de incrementar un sentido de esperanza para nuestra región latinoamericana.