Restorative Practices for Caregivers: Middle School Edition

• Do you find yourself having the same conversations with your middle schooler over and over?

• Are you tired of always being the referee, judge, and jury when your children fight amongst themselves?

• Do you hear the terms SEL, Executive Functions and Restorative Practices from your children’s middle school and wonder what they mean?

If so join our Restorative Practices for Caregivers workshop.

This lively and interactive four-session workshop focuses on how to use Restorative Practices to create a calmer home environment for all family members. You’ll learn proactive Restorative Practices and develop strategies for relationship-building, establishing family norms, and using restorative language when responding to conflicts.

Restorative approaches provide us with practical ways to give the young people in our lives, and ourselves, a chance to be heard, and to be treated with fairness and respect.

Conflict is an inevitable—and sometimes even productive!—reality of human interactions, particularly at the onset of adolescence. Restorative Practices help adults and their tweens/teens alike face conflict head-on and work together to find solutions to problems, leading to improved communication, healthier relationships, and more resilient families.

Participants in this workshop will come away with:

• An understanding of what is means to have a restorative mindset

• An understanding of restorative language and how to use it with your adolescent

• Proactive practices that help your child build skills and strategies for managing strong emotions and communicating their wants and needs effectively

• Techniques around executive functions to set your middle schooler up for success

• Practical knowledge that centers curiosity rather than shame and blame to address concerns with your child

• A mindset that reframes mistakes as opportunities for social-emotional learning (SEL) and growth for your middle schooler

• Strategies for engaging with adolescents in problem-solving, an essential life skill

• A community of like-minded adults to support and encourage each other

Research has shown that the Restorative Practices approach led to a 43% reduction in overall disputes in homes, schools and families. The same research found that 87% of those who took part in Restorative Practices training reported being better able to deal with conflict in general.

Learn to be the calm your middle schooler needs as they deal with the strong emotions and new challenges they face in adolescence.

Dates and Times: Wednesdays in November 1, 8, 15, 29, 2023. 7:00pm-8:30pm

Where: The Worklery, 441 Main Street 3rd Floor, Melrose, MA.

Pricing: $160 Supporter Rate / $120 Regular Rate / $80 Equity Rate

Supporter Rate - This rate is for those with institutional funding or historical access to wealth. It pays for yourself and makes it possible for us to offer this work to those who may not otherwise be able to participate.
Regular Rate - This is the standard rate for our workshops, that makes our work possible. 
Equity Rate - This rate is for those who would not be able to participate at the regular rate due to systemic inequity.

 We are committed to doing everything we can to make offerings accessible to everyone.  To inquire about additional financial assistance please contact us at inquiry@pathways2rc.com