Relational and Restorative Parenting

Relational and Restorative Parenting

Registration Now Open Nationwide

Mondays- 5-6:30pm (Pacific Time) October 18 & 25, November 1, 8, 15 & 22

This training is held virtually using Zoom - a meeting link will be sent to all registered participants before the first session

(Scholarships negotiable - email miles@lanecdr.org with scholarship inquiries)

Presenters: Center for Dialogue and Resolution Restorative Justice team

Relational and Restorative Parenting. 

When:  6 Consecutive Mondays in October and November - October 18th - November 22nd (5-6:30pm).  

Presenters:  Center for Dialogue and Resolution Restorative Justice team

Description:  Some of our most profound learning moments as parents come from conflicts we have with our children.  How do we balance keeping them safe with giving them room to grow and explore?  How do we balance a need for teaching respect for authority with critical thinking skills and nurturing free will?  Exploring these questions is a journey, not a surgery, and as many schools continue to embrace Restorative Practices as a means of reimagining school discipline, their application on parenting offers us much to consider.  Some of the themes we’ll explore: unpacking authoritarian parenting, owning needs and feelings, impact-based praise, understanding behavior as communication, and self-compassion.

Week 1: Foundations I – our core values, what we mean by relational and restorative, and a beautiful tool for connecting with family members

Week 2: Foundations II – creating habits for a culture of constructive communication within your home

Week 3: Listening that works – explore more deeply this crucial, overlooked skill. Learn how you might grow in this area, and what it can do for your family

Week 4: Questions that work – when conflicts arise, or violations occur, the questions we ask in response can make all the difference. A restorative justice approach lets us come out of a conflict with more connection than before

Week 5: Follow-through – how to do accountability (for yourself and your family members) as an empowering contribution, not just compliance or non-compliance

Week 6: Yeah, but… - challenging situations, internal resistance to change, and other participant questions

In each session, we will explore our individual and collective experiences as parents, look closely at our own assumptions and conclusions, and leave with concrete tools that participants can practice in the home immediately. These tools, stemming from the wisdom of Nonviolent Communication, Collaborative Problem Solving, and Restorative Justice responses to harm, are instruments of freedom for the parents who practice them, and for everyone close to them.

Darren Reiley is a dad, a writer, and an educator with almost two decades of experience teaching English, Social Sciences and Conflict Resolution at every level from elementary to university. He wrote and published Peace Out: a Peace and Conflict Studies Curriculum for High School, based on ten years of developing peace and social justice curriculum. He currently serves as Program Manager for the Restorative Justice in Schools program at CDR.

Scott Smith is the Restorative Justice Program Manager at the Center for Dialogue and Resolution (CDR) in Eugene, OR. In this capacity, he oversees the restorative diversion program for the Lane County Circuit Court, as well as providing training and coaching for educators seeking to integrate restorative justice principles into their schools. He is currently on the coordinating committees of the Northwest Justice Forum and the Restorative Justice Coalition of Oregon.

Scott has worked in the U.S. and abroad in education and in conflict transformation, and tends to approach these two arenas as different aspects of the same overall project. He has lived in several parts of Oregon at different times, and has been based in Corvallis the last 10 years, where he and his wife are raising three school-aged kids.

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