2017
Plenary Presentations
0.1 Plenary Annabel Shaw – Dispute resolution from good to great
0.1 Plenary Jane Bolitho – The art science and alchemy of mediated spaces
0.1 Plenary Jane Bolitho FULL TEXT – The art science and alchemy of mediated spaces
0.1 Plenary Jim McGrath – Bringing it all back home
0.1 Plenary Michael Klug – Negotiation – core skills for the ADR practitioner
0.2 Plenary Grant Morris – Commercial mediation scholarship and practice
0.2 Plenary Ian Macduff – ODR Spectrum of digital intermediation
0.2 Plenary Ian Macduff – Online Dispute Resolution
Session 1
1.1 Chris Marshall – Just say sorry – the role of apology in conflict resolution
1.2 Greg Jansen and Rich Matla – Connection before correction
1.3 Lindsay Pointer – The role of ritual in conflict resolution
1.4 Stephen Walsh – Reducing the cost of justice – ADR issues
1.5 Anna Quinn_PAPER – Creative use of ADR to meet complex needs
1.6 Miranda Zander – Community mediation in New Zealand
1.6 Miranda Zander_PAPER – Community Mediation in New Zealand
1.7 Phillip Hart – Outrage a tool for understanding peoples interests more richly
Session 2
2.2 Marg Thorsborne – Emotional harm and its transformation to healing
2.4 Grant Morris – Gatekeepers to commercial mediation
2.5 Tania Sourdin – Building a restorative city in Newcastle
2.6 Bruce Cottrill – Neutrals stating the obvious – process lessons in rural conciliation
Session 3
3.1 Jon Everest – Risk assessment – what is the risk and how do we assess it
3.5 Sarah Ramsay and Riki Jemieson-Smyth_SCENARIO – Dispute resolution and ethical dilemmas
3.6 Hayley MacKenzie – Mediation and restoration services within the justice system
3.6 Hayley MacKenzie_PAPER – Mediation and restoration services within the justice system
3.7 Bindy Hannah – Youth development circles
Session 4
4.1 Matt Casey – Understanding emotion in restorative practice
4.3 Olivia Davis – Not just for mediators – taking the ADR skillset beyond our community
4.4 Haley Farrar_Refuting restorative rumours
4.5 Linda Kochanski – Self determination in facilitative mediation – how to minimise complaints
4.7 Jim McGrath – Restorative parenting programme
Session 5
5.1 Barbara McCulloch – Using narrative ideas in conflict resolution
5.3 Michael Klug – Negotiation – the primary skills in creating value
5.4 Kathleen McGoey and Lindsey Pointer – Teaching restorative practices through games
5.5 Linda Kochanski – Family mediation – thinking systematically in relationship conflicts
5.7 Andrea Parosanu – European perspectives on RJ in cases of domestic violence
Session 6
6.1 Michelle Brenner_PAPER – Culturally Competent Compassion in Mediation
6.3 Andrew Scott-Howman and Paul Hutcheson – To investigate or mediate
6.5 Nici Nixon and Julia Hennessy – Child participation in FDR – a practice perspective
Session 7
7.1 Chris Straker – Developing a restorative culture – organisations to city wide policy
7.4 Rebecca Thomson – Child-centered practice – a child engagement project by RPA
7.5 Lesley Ashworth and Jennifer Parker – Does this dispute need a restorative approach
7.7 Liz Winfield – Using restorative practice in schools
7.8 Pele Walker and Lina-Jodi Samu – Accessibility of complaint resolution bodies to other cultures
Session 8
8.1 Marg Thorsborne – Improving quality of facilitated dialogue
8.3 Sonja Cooper – ADR for historic abuse cases
Elder Focus Day Presentations
Jenn Mahony Presentation understanding and resolving conflict for the older adult
Jenn Mahony Responding to mistaken assessment of danger
Jenn Mahony Understanding and working with our defensive responses
Lindsey Pointer and Haley Farrar_Harms and repairs worksheet
Paper Dorczak Collaborating_with_the_age_in_mind Americanbar.org
Rosemary Nourse Elder focus day case studies
Rosemary Nourse Presentation effective mediation for older parties
2015
Keynote Addresses:
- New Zealand story of the development of Restorative Practice – Judge Sir David J Carruthers [Carruthers]
- The restorative city: Emperor’s new clothes or achievable paradigm shift? – Mr Chris Straker [Straker Presentation] [Straker Transcript]
- Can restorative practice in schools build community? Evidence from around the world – Dr Hilary Cremin [Cremin]
Pre-Conference Workshop:
- Affect and emotion in the Restorative school – Graeme George [George Notes]
Conference Workshops:
- I want to wake up and have this not be the first thing I think about, every day – Matthew Casey [Casey]
- Language and restorative justice processes – Hennessey Hayes [Hayes]
- Understanding people’s ‘colours’: Cultivating emotional intelligence in a bid to improve relationships in social environments – Dr Roelf Reyneke [Reyneke]
- Special needs and RP – Margaret Thorsborne [Thorsborne]
- Restoring relationships – having the end in mind – David Vinegrad [Vinegrad]
- Parenting in windows: Restorative parenting: Restorative schooling – Bill Hansberry [Hansberry1] [Hansberry2] [Hansberry3]
- A day in the life of a restorative classroom – Kristy Elliott [Elliott]
- RJC to resolve infidelity as a precursor to couples therapy – Rexton D’Cruz [D’Cruz]
- Teaching restorative thinking and behaviour to junior primary – Jane Langley & Bill Hansberry [Langley&Hansberry]
- Our collective challenge: Bringing restorative justice from the periphery to the mainstream – Rob Hulls [Hulls]
- Taking a stand against workplace bullying using narrative restorative conferencing – Debbie Dunn & Sue Davidson [Dunn&Davidson]
- Restorative practice and family mediation – Mike Wells [Wells]
- The emotion brain and the learning brain – Jane Langley [Langley]
- Multiple perspectives on the development of a safe school culture within a new educational setting: A case study of cultural change in a Prep to Year 12 school in regional Victoria – Dr Lyndsey Iles [Iles]
- Models for community involvement in restorative justice – Michael Wood [Wood1] [Wood2]
- Strategies to develop readiness for RP implementation -Sue Attrill, Margaret Thorsborne & Beverley Turner [Attrill,Thorsborne&Turner]
- Environmental protection, Indigenous communities and restorative justice – Professor Rob White [White]
- Restorative practices in Catholic school communities – A transformative experience – Bronwyn Egan [Egan]
- Deepening a whole school understanding of restorative practice – Nathan Karas, Tim VanWinden, Mario Bergamin, Ganesh Sundra, Rosalie Boxhall & Troy Roberts [Karas et al]
- Honouring relationships – A restorative journey to a restorative community – Chris Mills & Libby Farmer [Mills&Farmer]
- Proactive classroom circles – Building classroom communities – Marg Armstrong [Armstrong]
- Te Whanau Tahi – The way we do ‘family’ at Naenae College – Catherine Forster & Tania Campbell [Forster&Campbell]
- Finding the balance: Restorative Justice and youth offending in Queensland – Christine Thomas [Thomas]
- Restorative practices for survivors of sexual or domestic violence: What’s holding us back? – Judge Fleur Kingham, Phil Stainton, Bettina Hall, Associate Professor Sharon Hayes & Anabel Newton [Hayes] [Hayes2]
- Unsettling white noise to help build stronger relationships – Dr Rose Carnes [Carnes]
- The restorative power of communities – Kerry Walker & Susan Anderson [Walker&Anderson]
- Achieving outcomes for participants engaging in Project Restore’s restorative justice processes – Participants’ perspectives – Fiona Landon & Dr Shirley Jülich [Landon&Julich]
- Restorative research: Appreciative evaluation of restorative practice – Terence Bevington [Bevington]
- Whanganui: Towards a restorative city – Shelly Harkness & Jenny Saywood [Harkness&Saywood]
2013
https://www.varj.asn.au/conference-papers/
A New Beginning – Jay Jordens and David Vincent.pdf
Adversarial Justice, Pure Gold or Fools Gold – Rob Hulls.pdf
Hauora Wairakei, Restorative Practice in Primary Education – Sue Williams and Mike Lynch.pdf
Maximising the Chances of Sustainability for Culture Change – Marg Thorsborne and Peta Blood.pdf
Link to Bill Hansberry and Jane Langley Presentation.docx
Make it stop, make it better – Matt Casey.pdf
Mind and Heart – Graeme George.pdf
Oral Languarge Competence and Vulnerable Adolescents – Pamela Snow.pdf
Relationship Based Pedagogy – Maurie Abraham.pdf
Restorative Justice of Dispute Cases in Saudi Arabia – Dr Saleh Dabil.pptx
Restorative Practice in Action – Lydia Chisholm and Deborah Trengove.pdf
RP following Physical restraint – Nick Burnett.pdf
Sycamore Tree Project, Victims meeting offenders in Prison – Martin Howard.ppt
The Spirit and Biology of Community – Lauren Abramson.pdf
Making Restorative Practice Explicit – David Vinegrad.pdf
Three Worlds Collide – Therese Sheedy.pdf
Truly Restorative School Culture Transformation – Adam Voigt.pptx
Undercover anti-bullying teams – Michael Williams.pdf
Working Restoratively in a Special Education Setting – Nick Burnett.pdf
Working Restoratively in a Special Education Setting – Sian Ziesing-Clark.pdf
Using Restorative Practices – July13 – Michelle Kehoe.pdf
Other Conference papers
Consistent Removal: Contributions of School Discipline to the School-Prison Pipeline