The services we provide are developing Restorative Practices in community, Holistic Dispute Resolution as a mediation technique, and prevention programming.
Sessions are held in a retreat space in West Cork, your institution, a wellness space near your location, online, or a combination of all.
Holistic Dispute Resolution takes the objectives of a formal mediation, which is to create an agreement, and weaves the space around it to be in service of the human need for comfort and care through a wellness centered lens.
This process is confidential and non-binding unless an agreement is signed. This process is facilitated impartially, in that both parties will be heard and attended to, in service of the human and the dispute.
These are structured mediations offered in person at my West Cork practice, in a nature retreat, or online. These are always warm and wellness-informed.
We meet together, or I move between parties. The format is shaped by what serves both safety and genuine progress. These sessions will include grounding activities such as breathing exercises or sound baths, breaks during the sessions, a closing ritual, and more. These sessions will be designed with communication and a supportive space.
Each party has a private, unhurried conversation with me before we begin. It is the first act of care in the process.
Where it serves, the session closes with a written summary or signed agreement, a record of what was reached, in the parties' own words.
What is said in the session stays in the session. That certainty is what allows honesty.
A retreat offers something a single session cannot: dedicated time. These retreats is an immersion in the resolution process. They include a full agenda of wellness activities and conflict resolution meetings.
These retreats best serve complex disputes, multi-party disputes, organizational or departmental disputes, and more.
Relational repair · Workplace conflict · Victim-Offender Mediations · Higher Education Disputes · Restorative justice · Co-founder disputes · Community grievances · Cross-cultural dialogue · Survivor/Perpetrator circles
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Whether a single session might serve, or a multi-day retreat is the right shape, we'll find out together. Introductory calls are free, confidential, and unhurried.
Restorative practices is centered around proactively creating interpersonal relationships and community. It also contains reactive elements such as restorative justice.
With Restorative Practices, we can delve into fractures within departments and communities, and enhance dialogue and co-create a culture of respect.
Restorative Practices is only as beneficial as the skills of the person holding the process.
My role is to set the structure, agreements, and pace of establishing Restorative Practices in your community. This kind of culture has always been there, and my job is to bring it out.
Good facilitation should almost feel invisible.
I meet with each participant one-on-one before the circle. No agenda. Just a sense of what's true for each person.
Together we shape the agreements, the questions, the rhythm and what this particular circle needs to be safe and useful.
The session itself, anywhere from two hours to a full day.
We will document agreements, schedule check-ins, and support you in the work that lives between sessions.
Higher Education Institutes · Sports · Workplaces · Individual conflicts · Community Grievances · Survivor/Perpetrator Circles
Bring Restorative Practices to your community.
Our prevention programming is focused on discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and gender-based violence. This work is offered to schools, community groups, and local government on a sliding scale.
Bring this work to your community
Whether schools, government, business, or community, tell me what's happening and we'll design something that fits.