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for schools + organizations serving children + youth
TRP’s trainings are delivered in an experiential fashion, allowing participants to experience the full repertoire of restorative tools as themselves. They are not forced to sit still, reading and interpreting dozens of slides with dozens of technical words familiar only to those in the field. Instead, they’re invited to be active participants in the training experience, actually applying all concepts and theories to their real work and real lives in real time. This helps with adopting a restorative, trauma-sensitive mindset; builds empathy for the children (and adults) we support; and increases the likelihood that restorative tools will be fully integrated into participants’ toolkits.
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You can find a more comprehensive and detailed professional development menu here.
Introduction to
Restorative Practices
The Introduction to Restorative Practices training supports participants with reframing how they see discipline, stress, and conflict; offers restorative language, tools, and opportunities for safe practice; promotes positive connections among adult stakeholders; and models how to leverage a community’s most valuable resources: healthy relationships.
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This training is one full day or two 1⁄2 days (6-8 hours) and is a strongly recommended requisite to all other offerings.
Positive Discipline Protocol
The Positive Discipline Protocol training provides the theories and tools necessary to implement TRP's discipline process with fidelity. Participants can expect to contextualize positive discipline; to identify their personal discipline style and priority; to safely practice positive discipline strategies; to hear and provide feedback about their use of positive discipline tools; to name and address their worries about protocol implementation; and to experience first-hand the role a positive connection to your teacher (or presenter) plays in learning.
This training is one full day or two 1⁄2 days (6-8 hours) and can stand alone, but is fortified when taken in conjunction with the Introduction to Restorative Practices or Cultivating a Restorative Mindset training.
Cultivating Restorative and Cultural Competence
The Cultivating Restorative and Cultural Competence training unpacks theories and practices that support connected and safe communities; provides tools for radical self-examination; helps participants identify and begin to address explicit and implicit biases and perspectives; and ultimately builds cultural awareness competence.
Participants can expect to explore concepts like institutional betrayal, anti-Black racism; adultification; multigenerational trauma; and microaggressions, among others, to varying and relevant degrees. Additionally, they will leave with tools and strategies for strengthening their restorative mindset beyond the training experience.
This training is one full day or two 1⁄2 days (6-8 hours) and is a strongly recommended requisite to all other offerings. Participants benefit from pre-reading materials, which are provided ahead of time.
Affective Communication
Affective statements are personal expressions of feelings in response to others’ behaviors. They help community members, including teachers and students, see and understand the scope and impact of their actions, as well as provide paths to correction. .
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Affective or restorative questions are a tool for addressing harm and fostering responsibility. They guide community members through a process for analyzing their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so that they may learn to make choices that serve them and others.
The affective language training offers ways to share observations, emotions, and expectations without blaming. It imparts practical strategies for de- escalation, accountability and reflection. Participants can expect to craft their own affective statements; to offer those statements up for feedback from the collective group; and to role play using authentic classroom scenarios. They can also expect to experience the restorative questions in real time.
This training is one 1⁄2 day (4 hours).
Facilitating Proactive and Responsive Dialogue Circles
This experiential training offers a unique opportunity to learn how to facilitate dialogue circles through authentic circle experiences. It is led by a seasoned circle keeper and organized as if it were an actual dialogue circle. By actually being “in circle,” participants are able to interact with the training’s material in personal, meaningful ways. They not only study terminology, they experience and maneuver it.
This training is a full day or two 1/2 days (6-8 hours). Part One is dedicated to the proactive circle process; Part Two is dedicated to the responsive. Part One can be taken in isolation but is a prerequisite for Part Two.
Shame- and Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Deemed the “master emotion” for its capacity to damage, shame often drives our most negative responses and behaviors.
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Trauma is a real or perceived event that overwhelms the body’s natural ability to defend itself and if left unaddressed can do severe physical, emotional, and psychological harm.
The Shame- and Trauma-Sensitive training defines and contextualizes the terms; provides safe practice of shame- and trauma-sensitive strategies; provides ways to lessen shame and heal trauma; and makes meaningful connections to the full repertoire of restorative practices.
It is one full day (6-8 hours) and helps answers the question, “Why do people do what they do?”