Videos about the process: http://www.youtube.com/user/RestorativeCircles

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Restorative Circles are a community form for having and learning from conflict. The Circles are owned and run by those experiencing painful choices around each other's actions, within the context of a wider community agreement that conflict is too valuable to be forcefully curtailed before the change it is offering has been fully heard and transformed into mutually beneficial action.

 

Developed by Dominic Barter in the context of social violence involving and impacting urban youth in Brazil, particularly in shanty towns, the Circles — and the Restorative System within which they are used — have since been applied in the public school system, youth prisons, the court system, youth shelters and become part of municipal services in several cities. Social organisations and local communities have adopted and self-run the Circles, both as complements to, and as replacements for, traditional models of justice. Some intentional communities / eco-villages have begun to investigate Dominic's proposal that we consciously create compassionate justice systems at all levels of our social co-existence.

 

This work makes deep use of Nonviolent Communication, and can be seen as a social application of NVC principles.

 

Restorative Circles have more recently been shared outside Brazil, in Scotland, Northern Ireland, England, Iran, India, the United States and Canada.

 

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see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Facilitation where we are also listing similar practices

  --Michel Bauwens (Not signed in).....Sun Jan 31 00:53:33 -0800 2010


The Bohm Dialogue, especially Collective Reflection has significance for me in terms of artistic critique and dialogue.

If one wanted to connect this to Jungian thought I'd relate to that.

  --Srule Brachman (Not signed in).....Mon May 21 17:09:16 +0000 2012

 

 

 

 

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