Resources - Relational and Restorative Thinking

Relational and Restorative Thinking Resources and Courses

These resources and courses help to introduce and embed relational and restorative 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!

Avoiding Healthcare Employee Harm

1-day workshop in Preston, 14th September 2026; online learning

This is a new course for team leaders, those overseeing multiple teams, and colleagues who support teams as business partners in change or organisational development; HR and OD leaders and practitioners.

Psycho-social harm refers to damage to a person’s mental health, social functioning, and physical well-being resulting from work-related stress or toxic environments. This course equips you to address harm with team members at the earliest opportunity, allowing colleagues to process what’s happened and identify a way forward, ideally before a grievance or complaint is filed.

Contact Lesley for a course brochure: lesley@restorativethinking.co.uk

"This course has helped me to influence upwards."

"The course teaches a supportive framework for holding meaningful, respectful conversations which can positively affect all relationships."

"I enjoyed the podcasts and the virtual sessions it was vary mixed and varied."

"I think the course covers the theoretical elements very well - I just need to remember to shift my thinking into using them in practice!"

Sharing innovative practice

The RCN-accredited online course, ‘Relationships for Change’ introduces relational and restorative practice. Participants include PNAs, PMAs, clinical and operational leaders at over 50 NHS Trusts.

Jake Chambers, from Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, shares how he draws on The Relational Window to help influence upwards with success.

Relational Leadership online course

Flexible 12-month online course, suitable for leaders at all levels, with start dates throughout 2026. Download our brochure here.

The new NHS Leadership and Management Framework is a commitment within the 10-Year Health Plan, aimed at strengthening leadership to drive service transformation, improve patient safety, and foster a positive culture. It directly responds to the 2022 Messenger Review and 2019 Kark Review.

This is a clear call for change, specifically in the ways we work together, and the new framework sets this out clearly, with detail.

Relational and restorative practice (RRP) has a key part to play in facilitating and enabling this change.

Contact Lesley for course dates: lesley@restorativethinking.co.uk

Sharing innovative practice

Our online courses include contributions from course participants, to share learning and application.

Here, Corina Benjamin, Mental Health Support Team Manager at Nottingham City Council, shares how The Relational Window has helped to influence her practice.

Relationships for Change

Online, on-demand course; 12-month access

Accredited by the Royal College of Nursing (5 hours CPD).

Participants progress through a series of structured modules, gaining practical tools and techniques they can immediately apply within their team/department/organisation

Learn about relational and restorative practice in your own time, at your own pace. Each module is designed to build lasting improvement skills at a sustainable pace.

Download our brochure here.

Face to face workshops

Our team facilitates in-person training, 1-3 days in length with individual NHS Trusts, Children’s and Adult Services.

We also run open relational and restorative practice workshops. Our next open course is for Professional Nurse Advocates and Professional Midwifery Advocates.

Download the brochure here.

What will you learn?

Develop the practical aspects of planning and facilitating restorative supervision sessions.

How to enable a colleague/colleagues to balance challenge and support to find their way through problems.

Phrases and techniques that enable solution-focused discussions with colleagues, patients and their families.

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!

1. What is Restorative and Relational Practice?

2. From Justice to Practice

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.

3. The Coffee Pot

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.

What is Restorative Practice?

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

E-Learning

Access our e-Learning CPD courses via this link.