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The UBUNTU learning platform offers two self-paced opportunities for educators interested in beginning or developing their practice. These courses were designed to be synergistic and can be completed as a stand-alone course and to also work in tandem with one another, complementing one another while also offering a unique focus!


OFFERINGS AVAILABLE

Individual Options Available to Suit Needs

Connect, Reflect and Model

This course is for you if you are interested in beginning or deepening their own restorative journey by creating relational learning communities.


(7 Hours, Certified, Self-Paced)

Meeting Needs, Removing Barriers & Offering Supports

This course is for you if you are an SNA or teacher interested in supporting students with additional educational needs to engage with restorative practices and processes.


(5 Hours, Certified, Self Paced)

This course will serve as a great RP Buddy for anyone wishing to develop their restorative facilitation knowledge, practice and skills!



(5 Hours, Certified, Self Paced)

Restorative Me

This course is for you if you are interested in creating relational learning communities:



Connect, Reflect and Model was designed for educators who are interested in beginning or deepening their own restorative journey. It aims to support those interested in creating relational learning communities by proactively building relationships and developing conflict literacy skills.

Connecting

to the key aspects of the restorative philosophy; the beliefs, values and principles. This is a guided and consistent reservoir to offer a compass for those who may be advanced in or seeking to begin your practice.

Reflecting

in a deep way about your own practice, your restorative journey and your own personal and professional development. This was created to support the essential on-going grappling with the restorative paradigm shift.

Modelling

the practices and ways of being in both your professional and personal life. This is about leadership and showing up as a restorative person in your workplace and beyond! Each lesson offers two invitational quests, practical ways to bring RP to life so you can move from intention and knowledge to practice and experience!

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When I saw the Restorative ME course I jumped at the chance to do it. I am so lucky to work in a school environment with a restorative culture throughout. We use circles in our classes and conferences to repair harm when the need arises. We have noticed that the more circles the children are part of the less need we have for conferences. I wasn't sure if this course was for people beginning their restorative journey or people who are restorative practitioners for some time. This course is pitched perfectly! It gives beginners an amazing introduction to their restorative journey and for people like me, it is giving me a great chance to reflect on my current practice. We all get a bit comfortable in ourselves and need to revisit ideas and models. I am really valuing this time to sit and do that. It is also helping me be a better parent and wife, especially at this time where we are all together all the time. I constantly as myself "who do I want to be in this situation?" The layout of this course is in perfect bite sized lessons that are easy to process and reflect on before continuing on to the next lesson. I love the activities and quizzes and I could listen to Michelle's voice all day long.

Amanda Downey (primary)

RP & AEN

Meeting Needs, Removing Barriers & Offering Supports

RP & AEN was designed for SNAs and teachers seeking to support their students with additional educational needs to engage with restorative practices and processes.


This course is for you if you are an SNA or teacher interested in supporting students with additional educational needs to engage with restorative practices and processes.

 

It offers a unique focus by identifying potential barriers and highlighting practical supports and adaptations to meet the varied needs of our students. This course outlines how RP can breathe life into Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it offers a compass to support relational thinking and also a strategy to implement RP in their everyday practice and classroom.  

Come together to chat with other RP practitioners at our bonus drop-in monthly 1st Mondays; Restorative Me Community Café



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I have been passionate about working restoratively with the students in my care for many years now. Recently I was given the opportunity to complete the course on Restorative Practice and Additional Educational Needs. I was absolutely delighted as I now had the chance to explore theory, research, and practice in restorative approaches when working with students with additional educational needs. I loved the structure of the course, it is a self-paced certified course which offers 5 Lessons which explore meeting needs, removing barriers, and offering supports. As an SNA I found this course to be an excellent resource as it enables SNAs and teachers of students with AEN to support their students to access restorative practices and processes. I am really looking forward to modelling the ideas, skills and practices illustrated in the course in my school. This course has given me the confidence and knowledge to develop new, deeply inclusive ways of working restoratively that I feel will truly make a positive difference to the learning outcomes of the students in my care, the school environment and the wider community.

Caroline Murphy (SNA, post primary)

Restorative Meetings

If you find yourself having to facilitate tricky conversations between others in your role, then this course is for you!

Restorative Meetings is an ideal follow-on to 'Restorative Me' above which explores how to be a restorative practitioner. Here we build upon this in the context of Restorative Meetings - a process to facilitate conversations between others in conflict, in a way that promotes empathy and solutions.


Although these courses are synergistic, they are not dependent on one another and if your role involved trying to support others in conflict...in the yard, in the staff room, in the classroom, or indeed in the kitchen :-),.... and this was a skill you wanted to develop then feel free to join the RP Journey here! We hope it serves you well.


Lesson One: The Power Story

Lesson Two: Learning to Listen

Lesson Three: Learning to Ask

Lesson Four: Restorative Meetings Process

Lesson Five: FAQs & What If's...

Common Questions

  • When does the course start and finish?

    The courses starts as soon as you sign up and you have access to them for 12 months! They are completely self-paced online courses with an opportunities for community reflection in our drop in 1st Mondays; Restorative Me Community Café.

  • What do these courses offer and how long will they take to complete?

    Restorative Me -  This self-paced Connect RP certified course is estimated at 7 hours over a course of time . You will be provided with 12-month access to 7 lessons with 60 videos to engage with which range from approx. 90 seconds to 9 minutes: 14 Video Lessons, 14 Connect and Reflect Exercises, 14 Connect Quests, 4 Connect Check quizzes and numerous practical resources to make this course transferable to your learning communities. 


    RP & AEN – This self-paced Connect RP certified course is estimated to take 5 hours over a course of time. You will be provided with 12-month access to 5 Lessons with over 30 supports, resources, quizzes, quests and video lessons. 


    The Connect and Reflect activities will significantly vary on their time demand depending on how deeply you choose to engage with them. The Connect Quests are ways to breathe life into the lessons outlined and offer a scaffold and guide around your everyday practice, designed as compass for you to revisit continuously throughout your restorative journey.

  • Are they certified courses?

    You will receive a certificate of completion when you engage with all of the content. This certificate may be used as part of your personal CPD hours at your principal's discretion.

  • You will receive a certificate of completion when you engage with all of the content. This certificate may be used as part of your personal CPD hours at your principal's discretion.

    Absolutely! Restorative Me and RP & AEN are an immersive online experience. These courses were designed so that it would serve those who are advanced in their restorative training or brand new to the philosophy. They deepen the concepts and ideas introduced in the face to face, allowing us to unpack and attach our own meaning to them, while supporting us to integrate them into our everyday lives. They a wonderful foundation and reservoir to build, support and accelerate your understanding and practice.