Category Archives: Counter-point
Eye for an eye.5?
I’ve been embracing my singleness, I am attending things solo and being aware of the benefits. Going solo forces you to strike up conversations with those around you. Attending with someone, and your conversation stays within your group. I’ve been
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Restorative Justice Circles, congruent with evidence-based trauma support treatments.
The training title: Understanding and Treating Traumatized Youth: An Integrated, Evidence-Based Approach The training was provided by Cross Country Education (www.CrossCountryEducation.com). We learned that trauma treatment has 3 phases (originated by Judith Herman). The first phase is Safety & Stabilization.
Use a restorative belief system, to implement Restorative Justice.
From the book Tribes, by Seth Godin, author, blogger, speaker and agent of change: Belief People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. The often believe what their friends tell them. They ALWAYS belive
Assigning blame and assigning innocence, labeling people not the behaviors, prevents both sides from learning.
After 29 years as a law enforcement officer, my friend said he saw 1 out of 1,000 assualts that were only caused by one person. He was explaining that as a society, we assign blame, and we assign innocence. I
A perspective on ‘evidence-based’ practice, Important Safety Information: Kris Miner style.
Life-threatening skin reactions, including rash, swelling, redness, and peeling of the skin, blisters in the mouth. Life-threatening swelling of the face, mouth and throat that can cause trouble breathing. Some people have had changes in behavior, hostility, agitation, depressed mood,
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Not everyone sees restorative justice equally.
One of the WordPress features, is seeing what people have entered in search engines, that directed them to my blog. In October someone searched “restorative justice doesn’t work” and was somehow given this blog as an option, and clicked here. I
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Update on the question: what do you know alot about and how did you get to know it
I mentioned the getting acquainted question in this post. I gave it a try and was really impressed with how it worked. Once again the Circle process did not fail me. It was cute to see the person wearing a
Overcoming the feedback that I couldn’t write a story.
One of my college dreams was to be a TV news reporter. It was maybe my 2nd or 3rd major in college, and I felt “at home” as a Mass Comm (communications) major. I wanted to be the talented, smart
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Helping others is hard work, keep your focus, imitation is easy.
This piece of wisdom has stayed with me for nearly a decade. I had the opportunity to someone a ride. She was really a strong leader and she brought a great deal forward in gender-based responses, both in criminal justice
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Does ‘shame’ get the results we want?
Why are speeding tickets and court matters in the paper as public record? Is it ‘stockade’ thinking? What was the rationale of using a stockade, did it work? In Herbert Packer’s book from 1968 “The Limits of the Criminal Sanction”
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