This month’s theme is around protecting your peace and seeking ways to be restorative with ourselves.

…Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle… (Plato)

This is true! I also believe that we need to extend this to ourselves, acknowledging the hard time we are having in education right now, in our world right now – making sure to be kind with ourselves. I don’t always find this easy, I can be much tougher on myself that anyone else that’s for sure!

Practising restorative inquiry and using the restorative questions to think relationally really supports me, in my conversations and relationships with others (I illustrate this in my TEDx) but also for my response to my inner critic, nurturing my relationship with myself. Restorative inquiry can allow me to soften that voice that gives out to me, that has unreasonable expectations, that can forget that I am just doing my best right now!!! I try to remember to go easy, be gentle, to notice ‘What’s happening for me?’, to consider, ‘What’s the hardest thing for me about the situation?’ and to reflect upon ‘What do I need right now?

In this last term, with all that schools are experiencing, and in the midst of what is happening in our world, I offer this video extract from Lesson 4 of the certified self-paced course ‘Restorative Me’ about Protecting our Peace - as much as we can and in our daily interactions, perhaps we need this now more than ever.

I wish you all the very best of luck for this term and hope the brighter evenings usher in some of the light we all need right now.

Yours in nurturing giraffe :-),

Michelle

Connect RP Gift from Our Head, Heart and Hand to Yours...and Back Again!!

This month’s gift of the Poster PDF of RP Questions to download, is an offering that you can print and pin up on your wall as a reminder to protect your peace and to be restorative, not only with others, but also with ourselves by thinking relationally and identifying our inner landscape and our own needs!