Category Archives: Blogging
Guest blogger on “Circles Matter”
Amy Vante Bintliff, author of Re-engaging Disconnected Youth: Transformative Learning Through Restorative and Social Justice Education provided me this guest blog post. Click here and check out the website for Transformational Education. Her guest post: After training a group of
More on the meme, Restorative Justice and social media.
Meme: Memes are contagious patterns of cultural information that are passed from mind to mind and that directly shape and generate key actions and mindsets of a social group. Memes include popular tunes, catch-phrases, clothing fashions, architectural styles, ways of doing
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Remembering what is important, science vs storytelling OR consilience.
I recently forgot what was important. Values are important to me. I take advisement from research (or as Capella would have it, I am a critical thinker). I try to live my life in balance, in positive relationships. I get
Restorative “thinking”, sticks and pairs, ideas from Kris Miner.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately and this post is to offer some insight to how I think. I try to think restoratively – to BE more than just do Restorative Justice. Maybe insight into my brain will
Filed under Belonging, Blogging, Kris Miner, personal growth, Relationships, SCVRJP, Social Media
Round-up of Restorative Justice, Restorative Practices & Restorative Measures blogs. -updated!
It seems to be a season of new blogs, I keep an eye on the social media scene, and appreciate the variety or resources available for our consumption, and engagement. You can’t always depend on a Google search, some sites
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Restorative Justice Circles affirming worth and remove defenses.
In a discussion about civility, someone used the phase “pre-judge”. Reflecting upon the shortcoming of making assumptions about other people. I started thinking about the difference between judging and pre-judging. I don’t think there is much of a difference, being
Start and end a conversation with two words.
“You should . . .” If you start a sentence with that, you are ending a conversation with me. I was just born with this independent streak. I can not stand to be told what to do. Yet I have
TWO WEEKS! I went two weeks without blogging! Postvention!
This maybe the longest time between Circlespace posts, ever! In the two and half years I have been blogging anyway, September of 2008-March 2011. I’ve started a few posts, I even talked about blogging in a Blog Talk Radio interview that
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Restorative Justice blog advice, 6 tips for the practitioner or advocate.
I have been blogging for just over 2 years. I started in September of 2008. Right now the blog views are just over 81,000. One of my blog role models, Penelope Trunk, has 60,000 subscribers to her blog (I have
Leadership is building what stays beyond you.
I read it somewhere and saved it in my brain. Real leaders build things that are around after the leader is gone. The idea is that YOU, aren’t the program. What you build, create, lead, develop, implement needs to continue
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