Diane Stronks and I are heading back to the Dominican Republic to continue working with a terrific group of educators. We will be offering what you could call a relational pedagogy, empowering participants to use circle processes to enhance learning within the classroom and with staff.
I am the Director of Restorative Practice Services with Shalem Mental Health Network. I am a certified facilitator and trainer with the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP). The training participants will receive is an IIRP training.
I have extensive experience facilitating restorative processes for schools as well as for faith communities, families and workplaces.
Diane, also a certified facilitation and trainer with the IIRP, and I will offer participants pedagogical approaches they can immediately apply to their classroom settings and develop in ways that make sense to their own day-to-day experiences.
Our Walking Together project brings a vision of a learning community that upholds the value of everyone - children, staff and of the wider community, i.e., families, churches, workplaces, friends and neighbours.
Our project is Christ-centered, learning-centered, relationship-centered, compassion-centered, community-centered and life-centered.
Supporting our project supports a wide learning community. Supporting our project is an investment in the present and in the future.
We welcome your support. Many thanks!
The goal of this project, which was the second phase of training as follow up from Conflict Resolution - A Restorative Approach, was to develop…
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