Restorative Stories

The 3-hour workshop “Restorative Stories” is a deep dive into how folk and fairy tales enhance restorative practice and support restorative culture change within ourselves, our communities, organisations and wider contexts.

Traditional stories challenge us to think afresh about how we choose to be, both individually and collectively. Folk and fairy tales from all over the world resonate like ringing bells with restorative themes such as healing trauma, repairing harm, overcoming conflict, reconciling across divides and cultivating compassion in challenging situations.

These stories can both provoke and inspire. They invite rich discussion and tools for personal and professional development.

In this half-day workshop, Hannah will share a variety of folk tales. Participants will then be invited into exercises that use these stories  for creative thinking and deep reflection about living and working restoratively, about how we cultivate a culture of compassion and develop our practices of actively humanising each other in the face of division and polarisation.

This session welcomes practitioners, educators, trainers, facilitators, researchers, students and those interested in how arts support restorative work and culture.

Hannah Moore (UK) is a storyteller, facilitator and arts practitioner with a background in arts for wellbeing and community building. She trained with, and now teaches for, the School of Storytelling, who have a particular emphasis on how traditional storytelling can help us meet the challenges of the world today.

Hannah’s work focuses on using the wisdom of myth and folktales for personal and professional development, with a particular emphasis on storytelling as a tool for peace and reconciliation. 

Hannah trained in restorative justice with Resolve West and has worked as an RJ facilitator and community mediator for Restorative Gloucestershire. She also trained in Working With Stories Of Lived Experience with The Forgiveness Project and in Peace and Reconciliation Leadership with Reconcilers Together, including work as an associate facilitator for St Ethelburga's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation.

Drawing on a depth of experience in using creativity in group processes, Hannah is especially interested in how the imagination of old tales can benefit our wellbeing and support experiential learning.

This is a paying event (25 EUR for members/ 50 EUR for non-members) limited to 24 participants (first come- first served basis). Please contact Emanuela Biffi if the fee is an obstacle for your registration.

Registration is compulsory: click on "subscribe" to register.

The webinar will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Registered participants will receive the Zoom link prior to the event.

To avoid any unexpected technical difficulties you may run this Zoom test in advance. If needed, find here the link to download the Zoom application on your computer or mobile phone.

The 3-hour online workshop will start at 10:00 CET (Brussels time). You can login a few minutes before. To adapt the hours to your own time zone you can use this tool.

The event will be in English. Once in the Zoom meeting room, you may enable automated captions to follow the presentations and conversations with automated English subtitles. These may not be fully accurate, but may support your language accessibility needs. 

Photos credits: 12th international EFRJ conference (Tallinn 2024)