[Peace-discuss] Restorative Circles practice group

[Mikhail Lyubansky]

Dear friends,

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:


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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>


Mikhail

P.S.  I've written two pieces this past week about restorative justice for
the Psychology Today blog.  Perhaps they will be of interest:

Our-justice-system-requires-us-punish-wrongdoers-what-if-there-were-a better
way?<http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines/201008/our-justice-system-requires-us-punish-wrongdoers-what-if-there-were-be>

A Few Words in Favor of Compassion for the
Cruel<http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines/201008/few-words-in-favor-compassion-the-cruel>













Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~lyubansk

Blogger, Psychology Today:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines
Managing Editor, OpEdNews: http://www.opednews.com/author/author18834.html
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mikhaill
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/attachments/20100819/02f4f7a0/attachment.html>