Restorative Circles - workshop
Workshop
6.5 hrs
September 17, 2013 10:30 am Tuesday
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Restorative Circles Facilitation Training Workshop. RC is a community process which supports restoring of connection and coming to consensus at the times of disagreements and conflicts, with the support of facilitators. Created by Dominic Barter and his colleagues, out of their work in the slums of Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 'Restorative Circle' allows conflicts to surface in a safe container. To see videos of Dominic speak on RC go to http://www.restorativecircles.org/video

During the process all the parties come to dialogue as equals. Participants invite each other and attend voluntarily. The process ends when actions have been found that bring mutual benefit.

It could be used at any community based groups and workplaces, including Government or Non Government Organisations, Corporates, Educational Institutions, Civil Rights groups or political organisations, Intentional Communities like Housing Societies or Eco Villages, and even in families.

In a Restorative System, unlike a retributive one, by going into the context of the conflict we try to restore connection and trust in the community. If the social fabric is torn, we sit together to gradually re-weave it, to re-join the threads between the members of the community.

In the two days workshop you will be learning about the process and the skills to facilitate restorative Circles and setting up Restorative Systems in a community. To know more about Restorative Circles go to www.restorativecircles.org.

Gift Culture: The workshop will be done in the spirit of Gift Culture where you are invited to contribute generously from your heart. To know more about the spirit of gift culture see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpyc84kamhw

Suggested Contribution for the workshop is Rs 1500. Please feel free to pay more or less depending on your financial capabilities. We want to have this flexibility so as to include everyone irrespective of their financial resources.

Shammi Nanda has had the opportunity to learn about Restorative Circles with by L’aura and Jason of Auroville who have attended trainings on Restorative Circle with Dominic and have introduced it in their own community. Auroville community is experimenting with different ways of conflict transformation. He is also working on Nonviolent Communication for the last four years. Shammi has been involved in filmmaking and has studied it at the Film Institute in Pune. While he was studying there he was also the president of the student body of the Film Institute. During that time they organized many strikes. He now thinks that while they had noble intentions, the processes of meetings were more disconnecting and is now wanting to create spaces where there is genuine listening and trust in communities when they situation is charged up.

He is closely connected to various sustainability movements and ecological communities all over India. He is also part of the learning societies network, which has been organizing ‘Learning Societies Unconference’ and connected to many home shcooling and unschooling families across the country. He has also been closely connected with Shikshantar for last ten years. See www.swaraj.org/shikshantar and sees himself as part of the larger Shikshantar network.

He believes in moving over from ‘power over’ to ‘power with’ways of relating in our communities and organizations and believes that it is not just possible but a more efficient way to relate with each other. He is also supporting some groups and communities to set up processes of conflict transformation in their design itself.

For registration - call 9642731329

Organizer
Shammi Nanda
Shammi Nanda has had the opportunity to learn about Restorative Circles with by L’aura and Jason of Auroville who have attended trainings on Restorative Circle with Dominic and have introduced it in their own community. Auroville community is experimenting with different ways of conflict transformation. He is also working on Nonviolent Communication for the last four years. Shammi has been involved in filmmaking and has studied it at the Film Institute in Pune. While he was studying there he was also the president of the student body of the Film Institute. During that time they organized many strikes. He now thinks that while they had noble intentions, the processes of meetings were more disconnecting and is now wanting to create spaces where there is genuine listening and trust in communities when they situation is charged up. He is closely connected to various sustainability movements and ecological communities all over India. He is also part of the learning societies network, which has been organizing ‘Learning Societies Unconference’ and connected to many home shcooling and unschooling families across the country. He has also been closely connected with Shikshantar for last ten years. See www.swaraj.org/shikshantar and sees himself as part of the larger Shikshantar network. He believes in moving over from ‘power over’ to ‘power with’ways of relating in our communities and organizations and believes that it is not just possible but a more efficient way to relate with each other. He is also supporting some groups and communities to set up processes of conflict transformation in their design itself.
 
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