Relational & Restorative Practices in Schools

Designed for educators worldwide, including teachers and staff, school and district leaders, counsellors, social workers, and student support professionals - anyone committed to creating safer, more connected, and more equitable schools. 

Schools today are navigating increasing complexity—student dysregulation, disengagement, absenteeism, polarization, and identity-based harm. This series helps educators:

• Respond to behavior through a restorative and trauma-informed lens
   
• Build cultures of belonging, trust, and accountability
   
• Re-engage students without punishment or shame
   
• Lead relational change without burnout
   
• Address common concerns and resistance to Restorative Practices with clarity

The focus is practical, realistic, and grounded in everyday school life.

Each 75-minute live webinar includes:

• Practical teaching from experienced international facilitators
   
• Real-world school examples and tools
   
• Time for reflection and application

Live interpretation in multiple languages (varies by session)
 

1. What Is a Relational & Restorative School? (24 March 2026, 17-18:15 CET)
    Creating positive culture, connection, and change

    

2. Understanding and Responding to Behavior (21 April 2026, 17-18:15 CET)
    Dysregulation, trauma-informed practice, and restorative responses

    

3. Engaging Chronically Absent Students (19 May 2026, 17-18:15 CET)
    Re-engagement without punishment; creating welcoming schools

    

4. Show Don’t Tell: Relational & Restorative Leadership (29 September 2026, 17-18:15 CET)
    Leading by modelling connection and care

    

5. Circles, Not Sides (27 October 2026, 17-18:15 CET)
    Reducing polarisation and addressing identity-based harm

    

6. So What? How to Evaluate and Share Your Schools Progress with Restorative Practices (1 December 2026, 17-18:15 CET)
    The importance of qualitative stories and quantitative data
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8. How to Overcome Common Objections to Restorative Practices in Schools
    Responding to concerns with clarity, evidence, and confidence

EFRJ members receive a 5 EUR discount per individual webinar registration, and a 30 EUR discount for the 7-webinar bundle purchase. However, fees should never stand in the way of your participation to any of our events. For a discounted fee, participants can apply to the waiver application form (below). 

To register for individual webinars, please click the relevant button above which will take you to the registration page. Alternatively, for more information on each topic, please click the hyperlinked webinar titles. To register for all seven webinars, please click the button below. 

For prospective participants where the fee could pose a barrier, we warmly encourage you to get in touch via this form.