It has been an emotional and powerful season of work. A group of practitioners met to begin a deeper look at healing not only the incident of harm, but deeper wounds and trauma when additional deeper harm is present. That means looking at differences in race, power, gender, any status differences between people participating. Not…
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Living the R’s of Restorative Justice Respect, Relationship, Responsibility.
Posted on Author Kris MinerPosted in Community, Full Circle Experiences, Kris Miner, offenders, Practitioner Skills, Relationships, Restorative Justice, RJ Resources, SCVRJP, Teaching RJ, Tip of the Week, Victims
Recently presented at the Red Road Gathering in Vermillion South Dakota. I did my first presentation using Prezi, you can view it here. I highlighted the 3 R’s of Restorative Justice in the presentation. Respect, Responsibility and Relationship. Like anything when you prepare to teach it, you understand the material differently. Additionally when you speak at…
Love as a path to accountability. Care and connection as expressions of love.
Posted on Author Kris MinerPosted in Formal Justice, Full Circle Experiences, offenders, Practitioner Skills, Relationships, Restorative Justice, SCVRJP
I’ve been home a few days and I am still in “awe” over my experience at the Idaho Juvenile Justice Association Conference. It really struck me how hard people are working to engage young people in meaningful, healing relationships. The fact this is good for community, reduces harms and builds safer, healthier adults was really…
Restorative Justice work as art and being. Three experiences one blog post.
Posted on Author Kris MinerPosted in Belonging, Circle Keeping, Conferencing, Full Circle Experiences, Kris Miner, Peace, personal growth, Practitioner Skills, Relationships, SCVRJP, Social Media
An artist in the show, invited me to the reception. Twice, so I knew it was important, and relationships are built by going out of our way. Since I like art, it wasn’t THAT out of the way, so I attended. Since I know the artist in a totally different context, I didn’t really connect…
Restorative Justice and the powerful web of interconnectedness.
Posted on Author Kris MinerPosted in Belonging, Full Circle Experiences, offenders, Peace, Relationships, Responses from participants, Restorative Justice, SCVRJP, storytelling, trauma, Victims, Volunteers
I just opened a gift from a Restorative Justice volunteer. SCVRJP has a new wall hanging. It was less than a week ago SCVRJP gifted (gave away) a wall hanging. Interconnectedness of giving and receiving. Restorative Justice includes and survives by this web of interconnectedness, where we offer and accept with grace. The community creates spaces for…
The work to move life forward when others have passed, the power of healing.
A recent Facebook status: The journey from survivor to thrivor takes courage. I followed her into the coffee shop and saw the tattoo with names of the deceased across her back. Three relatives died in that traffic crash 4 years ago, after 9 months of meetings and prep work, she will soon be meeting the…