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Measuring What Matters in Ways that Matter

The Principles, Challenges, and Methodologies of Quality Restorative Evaluation

Five-part online course

This five-part online course explores the complex and essential role of evaluation in restorative practice. The course invites participants to critically and creatively examine how we assess impact, meaningfully capture change, and ensure accountability - while remaining congruent with restorative values.
Across five interactive 2.5-hour sessions, we will explore:

  • Why evaluation matters: How evaluation supports learning, reflection, legitimacy, and growth in restorative work.
  • Why evaluation can be problematic: The tensions between standard metrics and the nuanced, relational nature of restorative practice.
  • Restorative approaches to evaluation: How we can design evaluation processes that are participatory, relational, and aligned with restorative principles.
  • Practical tools and methods: From storytelling and mapping to everyday peace indicators and collaborative data collection, we will explore and practise methodologies that honour lived experience and support restorative outcomes.

Format:
5 x 2.5-hour online sessions, with activities between sessions to deepen learning and apply ideas in practice.
The course is designed with a two-week gap between each session to give you time to reflect, apply what you are learning in your own context, and return with fresh insights and questions to deepen the shared learning.

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Dates:
18/09/25 17:00-19:30 (CEST)
02/10/25 17:00-19:30 (CEST)
16/10/25 17:00-19:30 (CEST)
30/10/25 17:00-19:30 (CET)
03/11/25 17:00-19:30 (CET)
 

The sessions will start at 5 pm CEST (Brussels time). To adapt the hours to your own time zone, you can use this tool.

Who is this course for and what questions will it help you address?

  • Individual Practitioners
    How do I capture the change I see in my work in ways that are honest, respectful, and useful - for myself and others?
  • Organisation Leaders
    How do we meaningfully evidence the impact of restorative practice across our setting - without reducing it to metrics that miss the point?
  • Restorative Coordinators and Leads
    What practical tools can I use to track and reflect on progress, while staying true to the relational heart of this work?
  • Trainers and Facilitators
    How do I evaluate the impact of my training - and help others build a culture of reflective, participatory evaluation?
  • Academic Researchers
    How can we design research that’s both methodologically sound and congruent with restorative values?

Throughout the course, participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own contexts, co-develop tools for meaningful evaluation, and share challenges and insights with peers. The tone of the course will be relational, practical, and dialogic - offering a space to reimagine evaluation as a restorative act in itself.

 

Participation fee

EFRJ members get a discount of the fee. The discount is automatically applied to members (only after logging in to our website). If you haven't paid your membership due for the current year yet, you will not get the discount automatically. If you don't get the discount for any other reason, please contact Bálint Juhász to get your discount before you fill in your application. 

Is the participation fee a barrier for you to participate? We can offer a limited number of partial waivers of the fee. If you would like apply for these please fill in this application form by 15th July 2025.  The applications will be reviewed after that, and responses will be sent by 30th July evening. 

 

 Early Bird
(Until 15th of August 2025)
Full
For EFRJ members155 €195 €
For non-members205 €245 €

Cancellation Policy 

If you cancel your participation before the 30th July 2025 you get 70% refund of your subscription fee. If you need to cancel on or after the 1st of September 2025 your participation for a 'vis major' reason, and you can provide a proof of this, you may get a voucher for another EFRJ event in the future in the value of maximum 50% of your registration price. In other cases we cannot refund your registration fee.  
You may transfer your registration to another participant without any costs until 12th September 2025. 

Terence Bevington

Trainer

Dr Terence Bevington

Dr Terence Bevington, co- Director of the Restorative Lab, is an experienced consultant and trainer with a deep-rooted commitment to restorative and relational practice. His work spans education, youth justice, social care, and organisational development, with a focus on building cultures that are inclusive, accountable, and compassionate.

Terence holds a doctorate in peace education from the University of Cambridge, specialising in Everyday Peace Indicators - a participatory approach to evaluating change through the lens of lived experience. He is co-author of Positive Peace in Schools and is widely recognised for his ability to connect theory with practice in accessible, meaningful ways.

Known for his facilitative, reflective style, Terence supports individuals and organisations to think critically about how they evaluate impact in ways that are principled, practical, and aligned with restorative values.