Introduction to Restorative Justice Responses to Serious Harm (EN) Spring 2021

When you register for this course, you will get a 25% discount code to participate in the Introduction to Restorative Justice course (you will need to register for that separately. Use the code to get the discount when you register. 

Members get 20% reduction of all fees. If you want to subscribe as a member, please contact Bálint Juhász to get your discount code. 

Is the participation fee a barrier for you to participate?  We can offer a limited number of partial or full waivers of the fee. If you would like apply for that please contact Bálint Juhász and explain your situation in an email in an email until the latest 22nd March 2021. 

"The person is not the problem; the problem is the problem”
Michael White

Gael Cochrane is a trainer and the Learning Development and Innovation Lead at Community Justice Scotland. She has been delivering training to a wide variety of participants for the past 19 years. She has been working on the development and delivery of training programmes including Mental Health Advocacy training, education programmes about Drugs, Alcohol and risk taking behaviour, Peer Education and Resilience, Carer Awareness (to healthcare professionals) , Sexual Health and Relationships (to young people) , Self Esteem and Resilience with Young People (Youth workers and teachers), New Psychoactive Substances (to Drug and Alcohol partnerships) and Equality Act Training (for Housing workers), Drugs, Alcohol and Risk taking courses, FASD awareness, Children Affected by Parental Substance Use, parenting Humanism courses, and other bespoke training. Gael has provided training to Prison Officers in Child Protection and Families Affected by Imprisonment. For the past two and half years Gael has been delivering core training to Justice Social Workers and other Justice Professionals on a variety of risk assessment tools, Group Work and Restorative Justice.

Martina Jordan is social worker who worked in the youth justice systems in London and in Northern Ireland for 20 years. For the latter 12 years she was a youth conference co-ordinator, facilitating restorative meetings between young people who commit offences and those whom they harmed. Martina left youth justice in 2015 and since then she has been providing restorative justice/restorative practices training to schools, sporting organisations, police and criminal justice agencies at home in NI, in various parts of Europe and in South East Asia. Martina has a particular interest in the use of RJ with cases or incidents where serious harm has been caused. An expert practitioner, she is currently working with two organisations adopting a restorative approach to historical abuse. Martina is a strong advocate for the use of restorative approaches in every context which values relational connection over punishment

"People start to heal the moment they feel heard."
Cheryl Richardson