Restorative Practices

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Restorative Practices

Designed to cultivate healthy relationships and nurturing cultures, the Restorative Practices microcredential equips earners with the knowledge and tools to implement restorative principles in diverse organizational and community contexts.

The Restorative Practices microcredential recognizes one's ability to harness restorative values, ethical standards, and tools (including fair processes, affective statements, restorative questions, and restorative circles) to build and mend connections. Earners will delve into the concepts, principles, and values underpinning restorative practices, and explore their multifaceted applications in community building, relationship management, and organizational development.

In this transformative journey, earners engage in proactive circles and embark on a restorative integration project, fostering experiential learning. Reflection projects capture insights gained throughout the experience, becoming lasting artifacts for continuous growth. Regular feedback and dialogues empower learners, facilitating both peer and self-reflection, and nurturing a deep understanding of restorative leadership.

The Restorative Practices microcredential serves as a testament to the earner's commitment to fostering harmonious relationships, ethical standards, and transformative leadership.

Earning Criteria

- Complete the Restorative integration project
- Complete the Restorative reflection project

These artifacts will be kept in the program's google drive indefinitely, with student permission.

Additional Details

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate an understanding of restorative practice concepts, principles, and values.
2. Explain the concept, methods and potential uses of different restorative practices.
3. Apply and articulate restorative values, ethical standards, and principles unique to interpersonal interventions involving diverse populations and settings
4. Identify the skills used to implement restorative tools including fair process and affective statements, and conduct restorative, conferences, and circles
5. Demonstrate facilitation skills to conduct both proactive and responsive restorative circles
6. Communicate persuasively the benefits and potential applications of restorative practices
7. Analyze situational contexts and the interests and priorities of the organization and its external and internal stakeholders, and the personal, interpersonal, and organizational changes necessary for implementation of restorative practices

Time to Earn

This badge is connected with a learning experience equivalent with 1 graduate level credit. Typically, the badge is earned across 5 weekly meetings of 2.5hrs (12.5 hrs instruction time and 25-30 hrs of independent preparation and project time time)
Sally Scott

Sally Scott

Prof of Practice

Division of Professional Studies
Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health