Category Archives: Victim Impact Panels
Doing justice for Restorative Justice is not what to think, but how.
This article in Harvard Business Review, the author shares some success in sharing HOW to think, not WHAT to think. Boom, in my brain, that is why I blog, to help people with Restorative Justice and Circles, and to provide
St. Croix Valley Restorative Justice Program – planned sessions for 2012
St. Croix Valley Restorative Justice Program in River Falls, WI provides a range of Restorative Justice Services for our community. Click here for look at 2012: SCVRJP 2012 color calendar. Locally, SCVRJP addresses public health concerns like teen driving, underage consumption,
Storytelling for Victim Impact Panels or Restorative Justice.
12 Restorative Storytelling Tips Speak from the heart. Share your experience and perspectives, be completely honest, don’t edit or modify what you have to say based on assumptions about the audience. This is your experience to share. You can be
Personal, professional, private, public why it should all be one.
I have always supported the notion that as people we should be congruent between work and home. We should hold values that reflect how we are with family and with coworkers. We should consistently treat people well regardless of the
Gripping story of teen drinking and driving . . . another lesson.
The Door County Wisconsin Sheriff’s Department and local coalition produced this video, the story of Karen and Amanda. It’s real and it hits me because I work with situations like this at SCVRJP. I help speakers like the ones in this
A new term, a passion and taking life on, full force.
Today in Bikram Yoga, the teacher introduced me to a new term. “Yoga Buzz”. We do a pose that gets your heart pounding like you ran up a set of stairs. In reality it’s a backward bend in 104 degree heat.
10 tips for MADD speakers, VIP speakers or victim/survivor storytellers.
I’ve had the good fortune to know someone’s story and speaking abilities before nudging the person to be a speaker/storyteller. So today via email, I sent off a 10 tips list. As I started it I realized more details for
The long lasting impact of a ‘positive countenance’.
SCVRJP runs Victim Impact Panels, comparable to a MADD Victim Impact Panel. At SCVRJP we introduce Restorative Justice, the healing power of listening and telling stories. Our speakers are typically a victim and an offender. We also have survivors, like
Bringing alive the storyteller . . .
On Friday afternoon two community members attended a Circle when Tom was to tell his story. The two community members are both students. One of them is a student in my advanced restorative justice class and the other is a
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SCVRJP volunteer resources
St. Croix Valley Restorative Justice will send you monthly newsletters, email scvrjpcranston@gmail.com. Theses newletters include volunteer opportunities. We love to have our volunteers self-select what they would like to help with. We started a FACEBOOK group today. We’ll keep that