Schedule of Day 2 | 23 June 2022
For myself and my family
8:45 a.m. Virtual Platform Login
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9:00 a.m. Opening Message
Challenging Transitions for Growth
Professor, International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Graduate School​
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In working with myself and my family, the challenge is to move beyond top-down cognitive approaches. This is particularly critical during transition periods in the family life cycle.
Incorporating relational neuroscience into our practice helps us understand those transitional stressors. Resilience is embodied within our developmental stages of life. This is most critical in understanding ourselves and our families. Working with these factors allows flexibility for growth and emotional awareness. We need to stop placing undue pressure on children to comply with adult expectations before they are developmentally ready.
Learning to combine bottom-up approaches that align with the cellular neuropathways of being human, works. This is a win-win that invites a celebration for self and family.
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9:30 a.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions: For Myself and My Family
Session 1: Building Family Culture
Albert Lim PBM, Council Member, Families for Life
Alison Lim, National Director, Family Foundations Singapore
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Join us in an interactive session on:
1. How do we build a family culture that embraces kindness, respect, responsibility and justice?
2. How do we build the foundation of the family culture: our relationship as a couple?
3. What are the micro skills necessary to foster a ‘WITH’ parenting position?
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Session 2: Restorative Practices and Resiliency for Caring Professionals
Professor, International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Graduate School
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As educational communities, we face unprecedented challenges. Learning more about how relationships and organizational norms influence the health and well-being of those who learn and work in our communities is essential to growth and well-being. As caring professionals, we are uniquely positioned to reimagine and develop our workplaces as supportive environments for health. In this breakout session, we will introduce the relational philosophy of restorative practices and the Relational Care Ladder as ways to enhance self-connection, strengthen social connectedness and reciprocity with colleagues, and model the way for new norms, systems, and structures that foster positive workplace culture and community resilience.
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Session 3: In the Driver Seat - A Systemic Family and Citizens Approach
Founder, Eigen Kracht Centrale
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Conferencing and circles is a very activating and democratic citizens-based decision-making approach. Conferencing and circles have been applied in all kinds of situations in The Netherlands. This can range from young persons, adults and elderly people needing a plan or a strategy for a problem or a conflict in their life, be it at home, at school, at work, in the community, neighborhood, or in prison or out of it. Issues addressed include domestic violence, restoring (serious) wrongdoing, mental health issues, divorce situations, debt and home eviction etc.
An implementation challenge of this different family and citizens approach in the past twenty years, has been that the professional system and the lifeworld of people have very different structures, ambitions and cultural procedures. The system world is procedural, formal, bureaucratic and employment driven, while the life world is unique, informal, dynamic and consist of varying levels. These two worlds do not easily mesh. Where there is no procedural or legislative prescription for this decision-making mechanism, the methodology vacuum is easily filled by bureaucratic structures. However, conferencing and circles can function as a strong bridge between the two worlds mentioned. In this way citizens, family or community can keep the driver seat when it is about decisions and plans concerning them in their lives.
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Rob has over 20 years of experience and during his course of work, have gathered over 14,000 family and friend networks around people who encounter serious issues. Stories will take the lead in this presentation.
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Session 4: Reflections about Child Participation in Restorative Processes
Senior Counsellor, Lutheran Community Care Services (LCCS)
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In a child-centric restorative process for child protection and welfare issues, what conditions are necessary to ensure that the process is physically and emotionally safe for children to participate in? How can we journey with child victims to determine what conversations need to happen for their voices to be heard? In this breakout session, we invite you to reflect with us on a couple of case studies as we discuss the principles that guide our practice in allowing affected parties, especially children, to come together to talk about what happened, how each has been affected by the issue, and to heal through voicing our hurts and regaining of personal agency in a community of care.
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10:30 a.m. Dialogue 2: Fundamentals of My Relational Care
While the pandemic has forced families physically together, it has also created a strain on the relationships. This resulted in individuals experiencing an emotional and mental disconnect with self and family. Therefore there is a need for self-compassion to increase our capacity to build safe and nurturing homes.
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Speakers:
Lynne Lang
Founder and Executive Director, Restoration Matters
Kek Seow Ling
Director, Resource & Strategy, Lutheran Community Care Services (LCCS)
Council Member, Families for Life
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Alison Lim
National Director, Family Foundations Singapore
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12:00 p.m. The Best of You
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Speaker:
Sai Tzy Horng
Founder of The Best of You Movement
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Tzy Horng will be speaking on the restorative power storytelling holds for the community. These tributes speak of relationships, community, love, resilience, kindness and empowerment. Through the sharing of stories, The Best of You has celebrated the diverse groups of people that make up our community and remind ourselves of our shared humanity.
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Storytelling can also be a powerful tool for community building. As they opened sights to topics that need collective attention and care, and to voices of the underserved community that need champions, Tzy Horng learned that these stories are not merely individual accounts of personal histories but are also a vital social glue that unites our shared humanity. Even more than that, they often become agents of positive change.
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12:30 p.m. Break
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2.00 p.m. Networking Conversations
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Facilitated by:
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This post conference networking conversations will allow our conference participants to connect! Friendzone will be facilitating this platform to bring our conference community together.
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3:30 p.m. End of Day 2
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