Develop and advance your conference facilitation skills and competencies with this collaborative online professional learning community.
Incidents of conflict, wrongdoing, and harm occur everywhere, every day in schools, workplaces, college campuses, neighborhoods, and families. The restorative justice conference provides a way to engage with those who cause and experience harm, along with the affected community.
Through the professional learning community, participants will improve their facilitation competencies. They will utilize a process of self-reflection as they explore important considerations and context around the conflict being addressed. Participants will define what is needed to be successful in their specific setting as they contemplate the conference process as a responsive tool and its importance in building communities.
The professional learning community meets four times via video conferencing. The two-hour weekly sessions engage participants as they practice competencies supporting effective restorative justice conference facilitation:
- Session 1 – Create a deeper understanding of the restorative justice conferencing process. Review the conferencing script and explore the restorative principles and framework behind the conference process.
- Session 2 – Recognize important factors for effective conference facilitation and create steps to build facilitation skills.
- Session 3 - Identify important aspects of the conference preparation process and apply them to your specific setting.
- Session 4 - Analyze when you would and would not run a conference. Explore alternative approaches to resolving conflict.
Learning Format:
- You will participate in four, 2-hour live Zoom sessions.
- Learning materials and other resources prepare learners for the live sessions.
- Threaded discussions provide opportunities to ask relevant questions, share experiences, exchange resources, receive valuable feedback from the instructor and fellow peers, and develop strategies for effective conferencing and responsive work.
This professional learning experience is for participants who have experience in work that relates to the reparation of harm or have a strong familiarity with restorative conferencing concepts. Sessions are designed for individuals from any profession who commonly deal with conflict in their position. This may include those who work in criminal justice, education, community-based organizations, youth services, and facilitation and intervention in these spaces.
As a prerequisite, participants must have either completed the Restorative Justice Conferencing professional development training (online or in-person) or have read Restorative Justice Conferencing: Real Justice & The Conferencing Handbook.
Price: $595
Certificate of Participation
A general Certificate of Participation indicating 8 hours of instruction time will be provided by email at the completion of this online professional development event. Participants are welcome to submit this Certificate of Participation to their accrediting body for Continuing Education Credit consideration.
Terms and Conditions
Join Individually (Online Events)
In order to help create the best learning experience for all learners attending, each registrant agrees to be logged in to their own individual device in a dedicated workspace while participating in this event.
Privacy and Intellectual Property
Registrants agree to respect the privacy of event participants and instructors by not recording video or audio or capturing still images of these learning experiences without participants' express permission.
The IIRP agrees to restrict its sharing of any recordings solely within the specific learning experience. Recordings will not be used for any other educational experience or public purpose. The IIRP’s free webinars, however, may be recorded and made available to the public.
Registrants agree to protect the IIRP's intellectual property by not recording audio or video of any part of the event or capturing still images of the IIRP's learning materials for anything other than a reference for personal use.
Cancellation Terms
We understand that emergencies happen and there are extenuating circumstances that may require you to cancel or change your registration. If an emergency arises and you need to cancel your registration:
- Up to 14 days before the event, you may submit your cancellation following the personalized link within your confirmation email. A $35 cancellation fee will be deducted from your refund.
- If you need to cancel within 14 days of the scheduled event, we are unable to offer a monetary refund or credit to use for a future event.
A request to change your registration to another event is considered a cancellation and a new registration. Therefore, the above cancellation terms and conditions apply.
If your registration is paid in full and you encounter an emergency, in certain circumstances you may substitute a registrant up to 10 days before the event. Due to the prework required and/or tasks related to managing our events, we are unable to accept substitutions within the 10-day window. If you would like to request a substitution, please email the details to
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