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Restorative Justice at Camp
- 4. AVOID CONFLICT AT ALL COSTS
- 5. The world treats conflict like a problem
- 8. Restorative justice outside of camp
- 9. OUTCOMES
- 10. BUILDING TRUST
- 14. Mediation steps
- 15. What? Feel? Want? Forward ownership, accountability Vulnerability. Create potential for connection ask, listen, question, change, accept. Agreement, Boundaries, trust.
- 16. What? Feel? Want? Forward “what is going on?” “How are you feeling?” “What do you want ?” “Make a new agreement.”
- 18. Where is the harm? Who else might have been harmed? HARM
- 19. CONNECTION How do we connect? Am I the best person to help?
- 20. PLAN How do we move forward? Circle? Listen? Do I need more help?
- 21. CHECK IN Embers? One on one? Follow up? Notes?
- 22. Restorative Justice HARM Where is the harm? Who else might have been harmed? How do we connect? Am I the best person to help?CONNECTION How do we move forward? Circle? Listen? Do I need more help?PLAN Embers? One one one? Follow up? Notes? CHECK IN FIRST RESPONDER
- 23. This is Hard
- 25. THREE TOOLS
- 27. Getting unstuck
- 29. ONE WEEK
Editor's Notes
- Restorative Justice at Camp Restorative Justice is becoming more and more prevalent in school districts and on the national stage. Part of our job as camping professionals is helping kids learn how to solve problems and conflicts. Two summers ago we implemented a restorative justice system. The goal of the system is to heal harm, mitigate future harm and build community. By listening, removing judgement, and asking questions, we hope to help participants see what the other side is wanting. Our system is far from perfect but we have seen some amazing growth, power, and confidence grow as a result of empowering campers to solve their own conflicts. Our hope is that solving conflict this way helps campers from all different backgrounds, access peace in and equality at camp. Come dig through what restorative justice means and how it applies to camp. 1. Learn about effective ways restorative justice principles are being applied to other kids programs. 2. Discuss the merits and shortfalls of approaching conflict through a restorative lens. 3. Explore how restorative justices can create inclusion at camp.
- I am a peace maker - - I am not good at this. Actually its really hard for me. I always want to make sure everyone is happy, I easily get caught up and take responsibly for others… just to keep the status quo
- AVOID AT ALL COSTS Pair and share: What role does conflict play in your life? what is your personal relationship to conflict, in personal, professional situations what kind of roles have you played in conflict , bulldozer, peacemaker, pushover.
- The world is constantly giving us advice about how to avoid conflict, how to compromise, how to communicate to hid and cover up and get away from conflicts. How to pretend that it is ok and substitute punishment, isolation and ridicule for justice and fairness zero tolerance has failed. - stats.
- What if there is a better way, the fact that Restorative justice exists and works, means that we have no excuse not to use it. I know that at camp we are not talking about major crimes, like robbery, sexual violence, and murder… However valuing campers problems and taking the time to take them seriously will hopefully help them to value others and others problems. ripple effect
- instead of fearing conflict and avoiding it, what if we saw it as an opportunity. What would it look like to flip the script and say conflict is a way to practice empathy, to encourage perspective taking and to build community. Think of the problem solving skills, the innovation and the collaborative solutions that we could uncover if we thought about conflict differently
- Step back and look at the broader implications and implementations of RJ. - first nations people - criminal justice circles to address juvenile delinquents - circles in schools Laura is a trained circle facilitator … sometimes the process can be ridged and we sacrifice some of the ritual to make circles accessible for all of our campers…
- what you will learn during this session how this applies to camp . Take aways
- empower kids, set up a system in which they can clearly see their own agency - this system requires trust. Trust from campers that if they bring you conflict you will not default to punishment, blame and shame.
- at stomping ground we use a series of peace circles to address conflict in our community. the goal is to heal harm, mitigate future harm and build community. We are not perfect. but we are constantly getting better and learning. - Small Circle- direct conversation between parties involved. - Medium Circle- asking for help. Pull in Panda - Large Circle- Executive counsel. Laura, Jack, Kate.
- at stomping ground we use a series of peace circles to address conflict in our community. the goal is to heal harm, mitigate future harm and build community. We are not perfect. but we are constantly getting better and learning. - Small Circle- direct conversation between parties involved. - Medium Circle- asking for help. Pull in Panda - Large Circle- Executive counsel. Laura, Jack, Kate.
- - What happened?- Ownership, accountability. - How do you feel?- vulnerability, sharing needs below the surface. Put down weapons of blame and accusation. Disarm conflict. Create potential for connection - What do you need?- communication, acceptance. Ask questions, listen. Letting go of what you can not control. conflict involves change, sometimes change or loss of an idea. - Agreement. - Boundaries create a foundation for trust. - some circles will be reoccurring… does not mean they are failures.
- we are crappy communicators it might be hard to pass judgement on “petty" squabbles they might have different strategies than you they might just want to go back to playing…. and not want help
- we as facilitators and directors and culture keepers have to change a few things too
- dont let it cripple you, or stop you form using your judgement as a compassionate adult. It is about looking at conflict from a different angle. seeing where your own biases judgements and frustrations come in to play. About giving ownership to the campers and seeing the bigger picture, which is how each interaction is an opportunity to help kids feel validated heard and powerful, that it is about helping each other and looking for the best in each other not for who messed up or who won or was right.
- - It might not really be about who got out in Gaga, or that Pepper stepped on Eliza’s stuff - it is about needing respect, needing independence, needing to feel competent, needing to be likable, might be about your identity
- -Who has felt stuck in conflict?… you keep going around and around like in washing machine. You keep making the same points, and hearing the same counter attacks. - It might feel nice in the moment to hold your ground. but in the end is ultimately unsatisfying. - it is easy to get stuck in JUSTIFICATION- the belief that you are blameless, that you do not have to change, someone else does. - Drop the rope
- - creating change in a relationship requires being vulnerable, taking ownership, clearly communicating, accepting ownership and defining boundaries. - it requires recognizing that you are RESPONSE-ABLE. able to give a response
- ONE WEEK one week, at the most four, to try and value campers so that they might go out there and value others. NJ SENATOR What if when Rocco is the Senator of NJ, he thinks back to camp how we deal with conflict and decides to reform the criminal justice system in his state. Or when Luna is a 3rd grade teacher and instead of sending the trouble maker in her class to the office, again, she spends the time to work it out, restoratively. Or when Eleanor is the CEO of a small tech start up in Silicon valley she treats her employees with the same kids of respect she remembers feeling at camp.