Session 1 ● Community-Based track

Navigating Family Values & Discipline for Positive Behavioral Change: A Guide for Parents & School-Home Support Staff

Presenter: Cynthia Corn-Wattree

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Guiding children to make the right choices, behave in an appropriate manner, treat others respectfully and cooperate at home in helping out with the family chores is a very important parenting skill. This skill is called “discipline.” Children who aren’t taught proper discipline often find themselves making poor choices and are in constant conflict with their parents, teachers and other children. Morals help children understand right from wrong. Values are morals that have worth: morals that are practiced by their parents and other adults. Family Rules help children operationalize the morals and values.

But what happens when family morals and values are not communicated or explicitly demonstrated and taught? How do parents begin this process of outlining morals and values to help provide boundaries to children? What role can school-home support staff play in engaging parents in conversations around family morals and values? How can schools engage in value-based conversations with families to engage them in a different way when approaching student concerns?

The focus of this workshop is to help parents understand, create and implement a system of discipline that is respectful to children, maintains their dignity and guides them to follow the family morals, values and rules. Parents will also learn how to align decision making and consequences with family values and morals as well. School-home support staff will benefit from the structure and resources of this workshop to engage in conversations with families differently by using a values-based focus to bring about a sense of understanding and being understood by the student and family.

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Session 1 ● Community-Based track

Neighborhood Accountability Boards (panel presentation)

Presenter: Building Peace, Center for Conflict Resolution, and OVM, Inc.

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Learn more about Neighborhood Accountability Boards during this panel discussion of representatives from Building Peace (Lawrence, KS), Center for Conflict Resolution (Kansas City, MO), and OVM, Inc. (Newton, KS). Moderated by Gregory Winship.​

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Session 1 ● Law Enforcement/Judicial track

Healing Through Dialogue: An Overview of the Kansas Victim Offender Dialogue Program

Presenter: Emma Barnett and Kelsey Rose (KDOC)

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At its core, crime is a violation of people and relationships. Restorative justice offers an alternative to addressing harm that centers the needs, voices, and choices of victims. The Kansas Victim Offender Dialogue (VOD) Program has been in existence for 20 years. Through this program, offenders have the opportunity to be accountable and victims have the chance to be heard, with the goal of promoting healing and repairing harm for all involved parties. This presentation will explore the groundbreaking work KDOC is doing around post-conviction victim offender dialogues.

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Session 2 ● Community-Based track

Peacemaking 101: Passing the Basket

Presenters: Justice Robert Yazzie, Cheryl Demmert Fairbanks, Rainey Enjady, and Ana Puente Flores

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Join us for an overview of the indigenous peacemaking process based on tribal core values,  customs, traditions and tribal law. As peacemakers, panelists will share their experience and expertise through an indigenous cultural lens and will reserve time for reflections and questions. The rule of respect will be the guidelines.

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Session 2 ● Law Enforcement/Judicial track

Restorative Justice in the Judicial System (panel presentation)

Presenters: Kansas Department of Corrections and Transition Center of Kansas City

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Join representatives from Kansas Department of Corrections and Transition Center of Kansas City as they reflect on Restorative Justice in the Judicial System. ​

 

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Session 2 ● Schools track

Slow Leadership: Listening, Learning, and Advocating for Justice

Presenters: Christine Crouse-Dick, Rachel Epp Buller, and Sheryl Wilson

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Our emerging model of Slow Leadership draws on our experiences as higher education leaders in communication, restorative justice, and visual arts. In this presentation we offer an alternative to forceful, autocratic, anxiety-driven models of leadership. We draw on our training in Circle Process and Deep Listening to help participants consider how prioritizing relational interactions in the workplace creates opportunities for more equitable leadership. Through a series of short prompts and interactive exercises, participants will experiment with how shifting language and behavior and how developing awareness of physical and emotional contexts can lower stress, build community, and provide more inclusive approaches to problem-solving in the classroom, across campus, and in communities.

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Session 2 ● Youth track

Step Into Your Rhythm: It's My Responsibility

Presenters: Regina Platt

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Step-ology is an approach that empowers and equips individuals, communities and businesses to identify and claim hold of their steps. Everything about our lives has been a natural fluent flow of steps, why not outline your next to be your best. Step-ology is a restorative approach to coaching created out of the reflections of my roots, life experience, and coaching techniques created with clients of interchangeable abilities and disabilities.

THE EVENT + YOUR RESPONDS= YOUR DESIRED OUTCOME, NOW STEP!!!

 

You are the champion that someone has been waiting for, why not step forward authentically. 
It's one thing to see an opportunity, but another to seize that opportunity and equip others to do the same.  Step with me through an empowering and impactful session of change. Together we will set the rhythm that shifts the atmosphere. 

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Session 3 ● Community-Based track

Restorative Practices in the Montes De Maria region of Colombia

Presenter: Tonya Ricklefs

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In 2016 the country of Colombia signed an historic peace agreement. The organization of Sembrandopaz in Sincelejo has been engaged in peace work and economic sustainment for 20 years. While the peace agreement exists, challenges in the Montes de Maria still exist. This presentation will highlight how the communities are engaging their own members to sustain peace but also the challenges they are dealing with. This presentation will utilize and acknowledge the actual words of the people doing this work in Colombia and the presenter is sharing their stories.

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Session 3 ● Law Enforcement/Judicial track

ReThinking Human Dignity in Justice

Presenters: Center for Conflict Resolution

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The Restorative Reentry Community (RRC) at the Transition Center of Kansas City (TCKC) is a collaborative project initiated by the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR). RRC is a community focused transition management model rooted in restorative justice philosophy and based on the principle of human dignity. The RRC model is derived from evidence-based practices established within prison systems in Germany, Norway, Sweden and several programs that replicate those practices in a handful of US prisons. RRC is similar to (but not the same as) other ‘therapeutic community’ programs already established within U.S. prisons. Fundamental principles of the program include, but are not limited to, repairing harm, restoring relationships, reentry preparedness, resolving conflict without violence, accountability and responsibility, business planning, awareness of trauma and building resilience, personal development, financial management, civic engagement and prosocial behavior, circle processes and practices that promote leading a life free from crime and violence. The Restorative Reentry Community seeks to enhance the existing reentry process by creating a supportive community on the inside to better prepare and connect participants to more resources available on the outside.
 

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Session 3 ● Schools track

Restorative Schools Initiative - Whole School Approach to Implementing Restorative Practices

Presenters: Restorative Schools Initiative (KIPCOR)

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The Restorative Schools Initiative (RSI) is a KIPCOR initiative that trains and supports districts, schools, teachers, and educational personnel in restorative practices. Using a tiered approach, RSI offers a whole school approach focused on building relationships and shifting school culture. Our trainers have experience developing and implementing restorative programs across the state of Kansas. The conference breakout session will feature Jan Fox-Petersen, Jennifer Muret-Bate, and Rob Simon from the RSI trainer team in addition to KIPCOR staff.

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Come learn more about KIPCOR's Restorative Schools Initiative! Meet our incredible training team, learn through stories about our approach to restorative practices, and leave inspired to bring restorative practices into your own school or workplace.