Dear friends,<br><br>A reminder for anyone interested in learning about restorative justice that we will meet today at 6:30. Please forward the message to anyone you think may be interested. I look forward to seeing you there. Below is the original invitation:<br>
<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">I'm pleased to announce that we will have a weekly Restorative Circle
(RC) practice group in Champaign. The group will meet on Thursdays
6:30-8:00pm in the Champaign Public Library (in one of the 1st-floor
Pavilion rooms, depending on room availability). The first meeting will
be a week from tomorrow (August 12th) in Robeson Pavilion A. We will
have a standing Thursday meeting during this time slot thereafter.<br><br>The practice group is open to the public. Please feel free to
forward this message to any person or organization that you think would
be interested. There is no charge of any sort and no commitment is
required (drop in as you please). However, if you are interested,
please try to attend the first few meetings. It takes about 5 hours to
learn to facilitate the RC process, so I'm going to spend part of the
first 3 meetings describing and modeling the various components before
we break off into practice circles. As expertise builds, I anticipate
that we'll spend more and more time in practice and peer-learning.<br><br>For those of you who are on this list because you've attended an NVC
workshop, RC is a specific restorative justice system developed by
Dominic Barter is Brazil and now making its way to the U.S., Europe, and
even Africa. Dominic studied NVC with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg
and has clearly been influenced by NVC. However, the RC process is its
own process. It does not require familiarity with NVC and, unlike NVC,
it is used specifically as a way to work through conflict, big or small.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Mikhail<br><br>P.S. I've written two pieces this past week about restorative justice for the Psychology Today blog. Perhaps they will be of interest:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines/201008/our-justice-system-requires-us-punish-wrongdoers-what-if-there-were-be">Our-justice-system-requires-us-punish-wrongdoers-what-if-there-were-a better way?</a><br>
<br><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines/201008/few-words-in-favor-compassion-the-cruel"> A Few Words in Favor of Compassion for the Cruel</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> </div>
<br> <br clear="all">Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D.<br>Department of Psychology<br>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<br><a href="http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~lyubansk">http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~lyubansk</a><br><br>Blogger, Psychology Today: <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines</a><br>
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