Independent Thinking on Restorative Practice: Building relationships, improving behaviour and creating stronger communities (Independent Thinking On ... series)

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Mark has been working WITH Leaders and their teams to create shifts in thinking, practice and more importantly culture alongside systemic shifts in the schools and organisations as a whole. Deb also managed a unique, multiagency funded Restorative Justice team supporting victims of serious crime through restorative processes. Although now living in Nottingham, he is a lifelong Liverpool Football Club supporter and follows them closely, as well his local teams. It challenges the idea of one size fits all behaviour approaches; and it challenges us to reflect honestly on our own behaviours and language when we are working in schools. If you’re looking for a challenging and entertaining speaker who can take everyone’s brain for a walk in way that genuinely transforms all aspects of school life, then Mark Finnis is the perfect fit.

It is about elevating the culture of a school or organisation so that people are pulled in, not pushed out, about fostering a greater sense of community and a communal ownership of control and fear, about encouraging a willingness to act in the right way for the right reasons.Furthermore, if you do things for anyone that they should be doing themselves they will grow used to this, and you’ll be blamed if it goes wrong.

A quote from Mark Finnis I want to share is, ‘relationships aren’t built in a day, they’re built daily’, the right approach daily will build positive relationships and make you an excellent teacher. Writing with passion, humour and enthusiasm, Mark has successfully managed to capture the essence of restorative practice he so expertly and inspiringly talks about at his training events. But I suggest that neither the quality of the teaching nor of the learning can exceed the quality of the relationship between the teacher and the learner.

Full of practical strategies and insights in his work delivered with personal authenticity and delivered with humour, energy, honesty and an unswerving optimism in people and in authentic connection in particular.