Restorative Thinking Resources

These resources help to introduce and embed restorative and relational practice.  Please get in touch to tell us about your strengths, needs and intended outcomes and we’ll tailor our input and resources to help you get there!

We’ve started to record a series of podcasts to share our learning and insights of restorative and relational practice in the workplace.  We’ll be regularly adding episodes below, freely available to everyone.

We are also recording a series of training podcasts and these will soon be available via our ‘self-guided learning’ page, alongside video and paper resources, so that you can learn about restorative and relational practice in your own time, at your own pace.  Please get in touch if these are of interest to you, your team or your organisation.

What is Restorative and Relational Practice?

Podcast 1, November 11th 2024

This is our first ‘relational podcast’, an introduction to the series.  We’ll post more here as we record them, so watch this space!

From Justice to Practice

Podcast 2, December 4th 2024

Our second ‘relational podcast’ explains the origins of restorative practice and how restorative and relational practice can help us to rediscover the ability to sit together, hold each other to account in a fair and open way and figure out what to do next.

The Coffee Pot

Podcast 3, December 11th 2024

My colleague found a dirty coffee pot left on her workplace desk, on purpose.  Here’s what happened next.

 

Restorative Practice at Work: Six habits for improving relationships in healthcare settings

Demonstrates how anyone working in healthcare can draw on restorative practice to develop six habits that improve relationships and help to foster compassionate and inclusive workplace cultures.

Order here.

 
Restorative Practice at Work: the book as CPD

This book has been written to help people working in healthcare understand what restorative practice is and how it can be applied to self, team and departments, whatever your role.

This booklet (opposite)offers suggestions for using the book in your department as continuous professional development, to introduce or enhance restorative practice and how we define the ways we work together relationally.  Click here to download your copy.

Discount is offered for bulk orders of the book. Please contact Lucy Delbridge with any questions or queries: ldelbridge@crownhouse.co.uk

What is Restorative Practice?

This video is a short introduction to restorative practice for all settings.

E-Learning CPD

We have a growing suite of E-Learning CPD programmes, to suit your timetable and budget, with the flexibility of unlimited repeat visits to the course/s.

All of our E-Learning courses are offered with wider blended learning options, dependent on need.  Please get in touch to find out more: 

lesley@restorativethinking.co.uk

Scroll down to see our courses, and if you have already signed up, click the blue tab below.

Restorative Practice at Work

This course is being used across NHS Trusts and Local Authorities to introduce and embed restorative practice within and between teams.  It takes two hours to complete and can be accessed in 10-20 minute stages, to fit in with shift patterns and timescales.

This CPD course introduces your workforce to restorative practice, with a focus on:
  • Introducing restorative practice principles and skills in the workplace context
  • Proactively improving relationships and communication to support better ways of working within and between teams and with people who engage with our services
  • Creating a psychologically safe culture that is human-centred rather than process-driven
  • Strategies for positive mental health and well-being; taking care of ourselves and others
 
This course aligns with the book, ‘Restorative Practice at Work‘.  Please contact Lesley to find out about discount for multiple copies.

 

Contact us to sign up your team/s:  lesley@restorativethinking.co.uk

E-Learning Course

Fostering Restorative Practice in Schools

An E-Learning course for schools, developed with primary, secondary and special schools.

In this course SLT, Staff and Governors gain the following insights:

  • 5 hours of e-Learning CPD
  • Introducing and consolidating restorative principles and skills
  • Videos and interviews from the classrooms of primary, secondary and special schools to illustrate how restorative practice looks and feels in school settings
  • Appeals to all learning styles:  visual, auditory, kinaesthetic
  • Downloadable worksheets and templates to use in the classroom and staffroom
  • Return to the course an unlimited number of times

 

Contact us to sign up your school:  lesley@restorativethinking.co.uk

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School Leadership through a Restorative Lens

An E-Learning course for Head Teachers and Senior Leadership Teams, developed with primary, secondary and special school Head Teachers:

  • 60 minutes of e-Learning CPD
  • Considerations for SLT before introducing restorative practice
  • The importance of leadership-led restorative practice
  • How to lead through a restorative lens
  • Learn from other Head Teachers who’ve been on the journey

 

Contact us to sign up your school:  lesley@restorativethinking.co.uk

E-Learning Course

Restorative Practice and Transition

An E-Learning course for schools, developed with primary, secondary and special schools:

  • 60 minutes of e-Learning CPD
  • Explores how to draw on restorative practice to support transition
  • Videos from the classrooms of primary, secondary and special schools to illustrate how restorative practice looks and feels in the context of transition
  • Appeals to all learning styles:  visual, auditory, kinaesthetic
  • Downloadable worksheets and templates to use in the classroom and staffroom
  • Return to the course an unlimited number of times

 

Contact us to sign up your school:  lesley@restorativethinking.co.uk

E-Learning Course

Restorative Thinking with Early Years

An E-Learning course for schools, developed with primary and special schools:

  • 60 minutes of e-Learning CPD
  • Considers how to foster restorative and relational key life skills in the Early Years
  • Videos from the primary classroom
  • Interviews with staff who draw on restorative practice every day
  • Appeals to all learning styles:  visual, auditory, kinaesthetic
  • Downloadable worksheets and templates to use in the classroom 
  • Return to the course an unlimited number of times

 

Contact us to sign up your school:  lesley@restorativethinking.co.uk

E-Learning Course

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E-Learning CPD for Schools

Find out how and why we’ve co-produced E-Learning CPD with primary, secondary and special schools to help introduce and embed restorative practice.

Talking Heads

Headteachers from primary, secondary and special schools, who’ve worked with us to introduce and embed restorative practice, talk about their insights.

Restorative Thinking and Positive Relationships

These four short learning sequences are an introduction to restorative thinking and positive relationships, a few techniques that can help us to better manage emotions and stay calm, and to keep communicating with each other in positive ways. These lessons will support you to:

  • Reconsider positive relationship
  • Think about all behaviour as ‘communication’
  • Start to use a line of questioning that will help you (and others) through problems and will help to maintain positive mental health
  • Deal better with stress

 

Developed with our partners the Anti-Bullying Alliance, this short e-Learning course is freely available to access via this link.

School booklets and bookmarks

Restorative Thinking curriculum programmes, booklets and other resources are designed to be delivered as part of whole school restorative practice.  Teachers and school staff using Restorative Thinking resources should complete, as a minimum, a one day training course covering restorative principles and skills practice with a training provider holding the RJC’s Training Provider Quality Mark (TPQM), or our equivalent e-Learning CPD course:  ‘Fostering Restorative Practice in Schools’.

 

Details of all our school resources, and an order form, are available here.

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Restorative Practice - Dispelling the Myths

This short guide, produced with the Anti-Bullying Alliance, aims to provide schools with more information about what restorative practice is and to dispel some of the myths about restorative practice in response to bullying.

Download the resource via this link.

A respectful, considered approach to conflict resolution

How can restorative practice help teachers and pupils to choose a respectful, considered approach to conflict resolution and anti-bullying? We wrote this resource for the Anti-Bullying Alliance as part of Anti-Bullying week in 2018.

“Say sorry you two. Right, off you go.”

How often do you, or those around you, step in to resolve disputes between pupils this way? It’s a quick, easy fix for school staff, especially when we have a number of other things that need our immediate attention, or we are rushing to deliver a lesson. So how well does this response respectfully resolve an incident and how likely is it that there will be a repeat incident following this kind of closure?

Restorative practice encompasses a suite of principles and skills that guide the way we act in all our dealings. When teachers model these principles and skills at school, pupils pick them up; when restorative practice becomes a whole school approach, pupils (and teachers) learn to reach a shared understanding and/or to respectfully disagree.

Download the resource via this link.

Our Work

NHS Trusts, Local Authorities,
Health and Social Care

Improve day-to-day communications and conversations to foster more effective working relationships.

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Schools

Restorative and relational practice enable schools to bring different and sustainable solutions to long-standing pinch points, including attendance, attainment, exclusions, bullying.

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Parents and Carers

Learn about your child’s developing brain and behaviour, alongside alternative ways to respond to challenging behaviour.  Teach your child/ren key relationship skills for life.

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Criminal Justice Settings

Reduce offending and re-offending rates and foster behaviour change by growing inclusive residential environments and relationship skills.

E-Learning

Access our e-Learning CPD courses via this link.