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Restorative Circles Facilitator Practice with Dominic Barter

Facilitator:

Dominic Barter

Location: University Christian Church, Seattle

University Christian Church, 4731 15th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA
Click here to read more infromation on RC Facilitator Practice.

Date and Time:

Mon, May 24, 2010
Tue, May 25, 2010
Wed, May 26, 2010
9AM - 5PM Monday - Wednesday

Requested donation:

There is no specific fee required to participate in these events. Financial resources are required for these events to happen. During the events, participants will be invited to share in the financial responsibility for making the events happen and supporting the on-going work.

Details

Our intention for the Facilitator Practice is to create a space where those facilitating Restorative Circles, or about to begin doing so, can move through this Restorative Process in an environment of mutual learning, community support and investigation. We expect it to be practice-focused, and thus ideally for those familiar with what we're doing and why we're doing it the way we are. We expect the learning experienced will mature and develop fully once taken back to local practice communities and tested in live Circles.

The Facilitator Practice is organized in a series of 3-day modules. Where possible, we recommend facilitators attend 3 such modules, for a total of 9 days learning. The modules are not designed in a sequential curriculum, but in a spiral, where key elements are revisited and integrated into our practice at increasing depths.

This event will be filmed.

Points

- Experience the 3 stages of the Restorative Process
- Participate in a Circle from the vantage point of each participant (including facilitator and co-facilitator)
- Observe and comment on others’ facilitating
- Review the setting up and maintaining of Restorative Systems
- Listen to each others’ questions, experiences and lessons learned
- Discover what each of us has to offer our developing learning community
- see an interview with Dominic Barter at http://www.vimeo.com/6557584
- to learn more see “Toward Peace and Justice in Brazil: Dominic Barter and Restorative Circles” by Joshua Wachtel at http://www.iirp.org/realjustice/library/brazil.html

Who is it for?

So you can get the best benefit from Facilitator Practice, and so all of us can benefit from the experience of all those present - we request all participants to have taken a 2-day Introduction to Restorative Circles. Basic concepts of Restorative Circles, covered in the Intro, are essential to getting the most out of the Facilitator's Practice. (Please see details of this May 22-23 Introduction in the list of Trainings..) It is also why we ask that all participants be actively involved in - or committed to forming - Restorative Systems and /or ‘semi-simulated Restorative Circles practice groups’, facilitating and otherwise using Restorative Circless for their own conflicts.

In light of this, we read each application for the Facilitator Practice individually, to ensure we form an engaged group of potential and practicing facilitators.

Registration and deposit info:

Dominic and his colleagues are committed to making this work available to all who request it, without exclusion.
We offer it as an open opportunity to come and learn, without charge, in the spirit of a gift.

We also request participants share with us the responsibility for making this event, and our ongoing sharing of the work, possible. Important information about the costs involved in organizing this event, bringing Dominic from Brazil, and supporting his ongoing work will be shared, and an open invitation made to all those who would like to meet those costs. We see us all as sharing power capable of creating the conditions for the world we want to live in. This is a chance to exercise such power.

After you've registered, we'll send you some questions about your prior Restorative Circles experience and your interest in attending the Facilitator Practice. Since we expect many folks to be coming from out of town, we'll also ask about your willingness to host an out-of-town participant or your need for housing. We'll also provide local hotel information. We look forward to hearing from you!

FYI: We're a bit chagrined and working with our programmer to change our online registration system, but at the moment, in order for you to pre-register online, we need to ask for a $$ amount. So, even though we are asking for $1, please interpret that as "you are invited to share in the financial responsibility for making the events happen and supporting the ongoing work". You can contribute what you like at the event! Thank you!

If you would like to make a contribution before the event, to help organizing costs, you may do so when you register.

What to bring:

Please bring a brown bag lunch, or money to eat in a nearby restaurant (many within walking distance)

Online registration:

If you wish to register more than one person please complete a separate registration for each person. You may make one payment under one person's name for all the people that you register. When you register the additional people covered by the initial payment, enter $0.00 as the payment amount for each of those people. Please put your name in the "comment field" when you register each of those other people so we will know who paid for them.

You will be able to select your donation amount on the next page. The requested donation is $1.00.

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