Wednesday, March 19, 2014
When painful or violent conflict occures we actually create more saftey for our communities when we move towards each other.
Dominic Barter talking about Restorative Circles.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Before, did you think you would make it to 21?...
RJOY's mission is to fundamentally shift the way we respond to youthful wrongdoing from punitive approaches that inflict more harm to restorative approaches that repair it.
Harmed people, harm people. Healed people heal people.
"If we are to have peace for our communities then we need a justice that heals".
Restorative Welcome and Re-entry Circle
Filmed at Bunche High School, this video is a collaboration between Oakland Unified School District and Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth.
The video combines footage from the circle with interviews of the re-entering student and the circle facilitator.
Daniel Reisel: The neuroscience of restorative justice
Daniel Reisel studies the brains of criminal psychopaths (and mice). And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these criminals, shouldn’t we be using what we know about the brain to help them rehabilitate? Put another way: If the brain can grow new neural pathways after an injury … could we help the brain re-grow morality?
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