Diving into Restoration of Relationships

Amos Ng has over 10 years of experience in the youth and social service sector, Amos, the Deputy Director at Trybe Limited, has been involved in the training and development for youths, youth workers and educators. Upon joining Trybe in 2010, he developed restorative practices within Singapore Boys’ Hostel, and inspired restoration of relationships in the families of the youths.

Yeo Bee Lian graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science (Psychology) from Singapore Management University. She joined Trybe Limited in 2010 and was involved in training as well as mentoring for youths and educators, setting up new initiatives in early intervention and community casework services for vulnerable youths and families.

Relationships are a significant part of our lives. They give meaning to many things that we do. When a relationship is broken, interaction ceases and a sense of rejection develops within us. This is magnified in the lives of our youths especially when they are searching for a sense of identity through the interaction with significant people in their lives.

Trybe has been the Managing Agent for the Singapore Boys’ Hostel since 2011. The hostel houses youth offenders who are of mid to high risk of reoffending, and present issues such as weak family supervision or strained parent-child relationship, negative peer association, poor frustration tolerance, unstructured leisure time, and/or substance abuse. In their journey, hurt and rejection are the common themes.

The team at Trybe, decided to look through the lens of restoring relationships and reinstating responsibility to the youths, who were involved in offending. Moving away from the conventional monologue of ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’, staff conduct dialogues with the youths on “who is affected?” and “how can we make things right?” Beyond applying the restorative practices with the youths, the team at Trybe also embrace this in dealing with work conflicts, resulting in an emotionally safe and affective environment.

Their presentation will capture the journey of how Trybe, dive into the sea of restorative work, the challenges and lessons learnt along the way.

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