Grace? Amazing! There is a mediation I conducted some time ago that has stayed with me. I won't share the details, for obvious reasons, but the heart of the conflict was surprisingly simple. Two people had been alone together. One alleged that the other had made an incredibly inappropriate comment about a third person in...
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Graham Goulden is a retired Scottish officer. For the last 8 years of his career he was a chief inspector with the Scottish violence reduction unit. It was during this time he became passionate about the role bystanders can play to reduce harm. He now works across the UK and internationally supporting organisations to build...
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As an organisation committed to restorative justice and restorative practices, RPI recently lodged a submission to the Queensland Parliament's Inquiry into the Youth Justice (Circuit Breaker) Amendment Bill 2026. We did so because the proposed legislation raises important questions about what accountability, rehabilitation, and community safety should mean in responses to serious youth offending. The...
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Field notes from the PFI Learning Hub webinar with Claudia Christen-Schneider Martin Howard · 22 May 2026 I sat in on a PFI Learning Hub webinar with Claudia Christen-Schneider — our paths first crossed years back through Sycamore Tree Project networks. She’s now president of the Swiss RJ Forum, on the board of the European...
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Luke Roberts works at the intersection of restorative practice, systems change, and complexity. He supports schools, justice organisations, charities, and public sector leaders to navigate conflict, harm, and culture change in complex environments. For more on Complex Systems Luke’s book – Leading Schools and Sustaining Innovation: How to Think Big and Differently in Complex Systems is...
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RPI Board Member Christine Thomas discusses her work on this landmark report Since sharing our research at the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Conference on Kaurna Country, the response has been humbling and the urgency has not diminished.Today we share the full story of Holding Hope: Preventing Suicide among Aboriginal...
continue readingAnd why goodwill is not enough. Luke Roberts works at the intersection of restorative practice, systems change, and complexity. He supports schools, justice organisations, charities, and public sector leaders to navigate conflict, harm, and culture change in complex environments. For more on Complex Systems Luke’s book – Leading Schools and Sustaining Innovation: How to Think Big...
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Juliette McAleer is a former public sector leader and PhD candidate living with disability arising from the physical and psychosocial consequences of preventable healthcare harm. Based in regional Queensland, Australia, Juliette writes from her lived perspective of harm and its aftermath, focusing on post-harm responses and how they shape safety, trust, and the possibility of...
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Juliette McAleer is a former public sector leader and PhD candidate living with disability arising from the physical and psychosocial consequences of preventable healthcare harm. Based in regional Queensland, Australia, Juliette writes from her lived perspective of harm and its aftermath, focusing on post-harm responses and how they shape safety, trust, and the possibility of...
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As the former Principal of Fairholme College, Dr. Linda Evans was a cornerstone of the school’s restorative journey for over two decades. Since 2004, she championed Restorative Practices (RP) as the primary framework for navigating the daily relationship complexities of the school community, believing there was no better alternative for fostering authentic connection. During her...
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