RPT 26-27 – abi Anti-Bullying Institute

This intensive Training Programme will suit all primary schools that have a basic knowledge of Restorative Practices and want to create momentum and cross-school community buy in. The programme will work with participants to create a Restorative Practice Team, create an overview of where the school sits on the Continuum of Restorative Practices and develop whole-school inductions models, including for parents, so that the foundations of the practice can be embedded from the outset. We will then work through how to build an Annual RP Programme which will sustain itself as the school moves from informal practices to circle work to eventually dealing with serious conflicts or bullying issues in a Restorative way.

We also create Restorative input for both your Code of Behaviour and Bí Cineálta policy that can be tweaked at each review as the school builds on its practice over time. The Programme offers your team opportunities for on-going, structured support as they go about the work of embedding Restorative Practice into your school’s codes of practice and Bí Cineálta policy, undertaking the gradual and joyful work of becoming a Restorative School Culture.

The Programme leans heavily into implementation science as the missing component to any Restorative Initiatives that your school may have visited already. It brings together all theoretical and practical elements into a sustainable yearly programme which will impact positively on relationships within the school environment and the parent community, reduce conflicts, transform challenging and unwanted behaviours with growing momentum.

On completion of the Programme, each participating school will have built their own RP Programme Document, which can be added to any Wellbeing Folder, as an addendum to your Code of Behaviour or Bí Cineálta Policy and can be reviewed on an annual basis.

The Programme:

Session 1: Becoming A Restorative Practice Team: What is entailed
Session 2: Implementation – Building a Yearly Induction Model for Staff, Students, Parents
Session 3: A Deep Dive into Restorative Informal Practices and the rationale for them to inform practice – Polyvagal Theory, Shame Theory, Affective Theory
Session 4: What are Restorative Circles? Where they fit in your programme – how and when to begin Circle Practice
Session 5: What is a Trauma Informed Polic? Informing Policy Restoratively – Code of Behaviour, Bí Cineálta
Session 6: Interim Review – Where are we now? What does our Programme Document look like and sharing ideas
Session 7: Let’s talk about Parents, Restoratively Speaking
Session 8: Building an Annual Review Process for your RP Programme

Intensive Online Restorative Practice Training Programme for Primary Schools

The Programme: