Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution
Restorative Circle II
Building Compassionate Conflict Resolution Systems
Plenary in English: consecutive translation as needed.
Documents and breakout groups will be in choice of English or French.
Restorative Circle allows individuals and communities to establish connection, discover meaning and recover power on profound levels. They create a forum for reaching agreements that help sustain effective and nurturing relationships both personally and within society.
Circles have developed within the RJ (Restorative Justice) movement, which in recent decades has adapted ways for communities to promote responsibility and healing. Rethinking justice, and engaging to consciously build whole-system responses to people’s well-being, has opened up revolutionary possibilities for furthering a culture of peace.
Dominic Barter, the certified trainer in charge of the RJ project for the Center for NVC, has created a wonderfully empowering & sustainable restorative process!
These two days dynamically deepen the key assumptions underlying the RC model which Dominic Barter has long been sharing all over America.
They are the next steps to developing the skills required to facilitate an RC after participating in a 3-day Intro. Because everyone comes from a different background and level of expertise, Dominic recommends a total of 9 days of training in this particular model of facilitation. Participants will learn to hone their awareness of group dynamics and they will specifically evolve:
° Deep clarity around the whole process and each of its steps,
° Self-awareness and self-care,
° Co-facilitation with other people,
° Flexibility and creativity,
° Interrupting and focusing to track meaning,
° Staying connected with the RC intention throughout, while skilfully intervening in a group,
° Empathic listening and guessing,
° Making clear observations,
° Identifying a doable action plan within a specific time frame.
This 2-day experience will be highly interactive with demonstration, practice, individual coaching and group debriefing of each step.
Gina has been a practitioner of nonviolence and conflict resolution for many years.
She is a certified community-building facilitator, a certified trainer for the Center for NVC and a Restorative Circle (RC) facilitator. She has been sharing NVC full-time for seven years in prisons, hospitals and non-profits.
She currently runs seven year-long NVC Integration programs, and also mentors others through the Center’s certification process.
Gina offers and teaches NVC-based mediation in families, businesses & groups of all kinds.
A long-time colleague of Dominic’s, Gina has been facilitating Restorative Circles in different environments since learning this wonderful model directly from him.
Valérie Lanctôt-Bédard
Valérie has been teaching NVC since 2003. She intervenes in a variety of environments – including all kinds of organizations at work, couples and families and therapeutic relations in health centers, where she offers empathy in dealing with anger, beliefs, grief, healing, change, parental skills and social activism.
She also works with individuals on their life path, sharing her 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur, facilitator and therapist.
She is a certified trainer of the Center for NVC and co-founder of the Québec Circle of Certified Trainers.
For more information on both trainers:
Location: Saint Paul University, 223 Main Street, Ottawa, ON K1S 1C4
Time
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
For those with RJ background: experience how inserting NVC's ABA-type listening can enhance resolution sustainability.
For those with NVC background: experience how deepening NVC dialogue can empower facilitation of circles.
For those wanting to contribute to ‘peace’: experience the immediate ‘vigor', in your community, of this unique combination of Alternate Dispute Resolution skills!
NVC Ottawa-Outaouais is a non-profit network offering NonViolent Communication-based facilitation, mediation, practice groups and teaching in businesses and communities.
