Useful Resources

The Restorative Parenting podcast is a space for parents to explore what it means to be a restorative person in family life and think about the ways we can help our children develop a restorative mindset and skills. We’re not experts in parenting, but want to share our experiences to support each other as we pursue a restorative lifestyle.

Each episode features a circle discussion between Joy Bettles, Dr Justine Andreu Darling, Dr Crystena Parker-Shandal, and Dr Lindsey Pointer.

Episodes include:

  • What is restorative parenting? / Highs and lows of restorative parenting

  • Helping our children develop emotional awareness and literacy

  • Working through sibling conflict and rivalry

  • Building our own capacity for restorative responses

Find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Dr Diana Batchelor has published a booklet for victims of crime and a practitioner handbook on challenging cases:

Check out the resources offered by the Community of Restorative Researchers by clicking here.

The Mint House has released a position paper on Growing Restorative Practice.

Dr Duncan Edward Gillard, Senior Educational Psychologist, Trading with Schools, Bristol City Council, has written a paper on Experiences of restorative justice in settings with children and young people: The accounts of professionals and young people.

The Forgiveness Project is an award-winning, secular organisation that collects and shares real stories of forgiveness to build understanding, encourage reflection and enable people to reconcile with the pain and move forward from the trauma of their own lives. Their exhibitions, events, and programmes use narrative learning techniques to present alternatives to cycles of conflict, violence, crime and injustice.

Their Forgiveness Toolbox is an invaluable resource.

Recommended Reading List:

The Pocket Guide to Restorative Justice: by Pete Wallis and Barbara Tudor.

What are you Staring at? A Comic about Restorative Justice in Schools: by Pete Wallis & Joseph Wilkins.

Restorative Theory in Practice: Insights into What Works and Why: by Belinda Hopkins and Margaret Thorsborne.

The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age by Marina Cantacuzino

If You Sit Very Still by Marian Partington