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\u00a0\"Harvest<\/a><\/p>\n

Really interesting gig this week. \u00a0Steven Wright<\/a> and I are working together here in Vancouver at an international conference on restorative practices<\/a>, the kinds of things that people do to bring relationship and community to the justice, education and community systems that more often than not drive us apart. \u00a0 There are some real heros here and leaders in the field including Howard Zehr<\/a>, one of the founders of the restorative justice movement, and many leading practitioners from around the world.<\/p>\n

The conference itself is a pretty standard set up with plenary discussions dotting a schedule of concurrent sessions. \u00a0Steven and I are putting into practice an idea that a number of us have been playing with for a could of years, namely hosting a reflective conversation space in which the conference participants can help create the harvest and meaning making about the whole event.<\/p>\n

We have a little conversation space set up in the foyer of the hotel, with table tops covered with flipchart paper on which we are writing questions for reflection. \u00a0All of the insight is being harvested every day on two large murals that Steven is creating, based on a three panel image of a river emerging from the headwaters, travelling through fertile lands and emptying into the ocean. \u00a0This metaphor is charting the learning journey of the 280 people here. \u00a0Yesterday we were interested in the questions that were coming up, the droplets of water and insight that lie in the multiple headwaters of our mainstream of restorative practices. \u00a0Our question for our space was “What are the questions you are hearing today?” \u00a0From that question we harvest three main tributaries that flow into our mainstream: people are curious about conceptual questions (What are the values and deep practices of restorative community?), contextual questions (How do we do this in education\/community\/social services?) and individual practice questions (Where do I start? \u00a0What are the essential capacities?). \u00a0At the end of each day, Steven, Howard and I have been reporting what we have been hearing and seeing back to the whole. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Today our river is moving into the rich plains and fields of established practice and we are asking the question “What patterns give life to restorative practice?” \u00a0Already people are engaged in questions of process, listening, showing up, facilitating and working that are suggesting a pattern language of restorative practice. \u00a0That is our goal for today – to surface that learning for the community. \u00a0Tomorrow we are looking at the ocean of possibility and the new ground that is created as we extend these practices into new places. \u00a0<\/p>\n

This is not a standard conference facilitation job for sure. \u00a0Rather we are inviting people into a deeper reflective space, harvesting collective meaning and learning and giving a context for a shared learning journey. \u00a0Lots to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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