Products and Services
At The Restorative Lab, we like to ‘sense and respond’ (Gothelf and Seiden, 2017) to client needs. This means we design training and support that helps you to:
empower your people
innovate coherently
maintain authentic people-first systems
safely re-align organisational capabilities around today’s opportunities and threats.
See below for ways we could work together to transform how you and your team respond to conflict.
Products
Pre-designed programmes and courses ready to go
Services
Bespoke support to suit your needs
1-day Introductory Restorative training
3-day Restorative Practitioner training
1-day facilitating embodied active learning
1-day Circles training
18 month Restorative Leadership programme - for schools (primary, secondary and AP)
12 month Restorative Leadership programme - for local authority teams
3 hour Courageous Conversations Course
9 hour Conflict Competence Course (CPD accredited)
Bespoke Train the Trainer programme.
Consultancy - research, planning and co-design through to implementation
Evaluation, monitoring and reporting
Co-creation of resources
Facilitation - events
Facilitation - restorative interventions
Conflict coaching - individualised support
Practice group set-up and supervision
How we work
What we do and the way we do it might look and feel different to training you have done before. Where possible, we work in groups; use active learning methods; facilitate personal and professional learning opportunities rather than teaching; seek engagement rather than compliance.
As with any intervention designed to effect culture change, attention needs to be first focussed on how best to develop senior managers and leaders in internalising and modelling this new way of thinking and behaving. We know that organisational change starts with the transformation of people.
Publications
A report on the use of restorative practices in UK organisations.
This report was initially commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council, a Local Authority in England who are developing their use of restorative and relational practices in the workplace. In order to assess the current UK restorative landscape, we first listed other organisations who have adopted a restorative way of working. The ways in which these organisations came to employ restorative practices, their implementation plans and the outcomes that resulted may be of particular interest to decision makers within any organisation examining workforce development and culture change. The report is free to download - just click on the image.
Restorative Approaches in Education
Restorative Lab Director Dr. Terence Bevington and Dr. Hilary Cremin wrote Positive Peace in Schools. This book offers a fresh and challenging perspective on the question of conflict, violence and peace in schools. Click on the image for an extract summarising restorative ways of working in education.
The is Lab featured in the RJC’s 2023 magazine
In this article Inger-Brit Lowater, a PhD student, shares her preliminary findings from an evaluation of a Restorative Practice Leadership Programme The Restorative Lab delivers to head teachers in primary and secondary schools in Gloucestershire. The article sets out the development of the training offer, a brief overview of the training and some preliminary findings.