Since the mid-1990s, I have assisted individuals and groups within organisations to resolve disputes, manage conflict and promote effective communication. Matters have included:
workplace disputes and conflicts, including multiple parties (up to 30); discrimination or harassment; enterprise bargaining negotiations; work system design; evaluation and training; developing personal plans and addressing conflict in mental health programs between clinicians, carers and consumers; decision making processes within community groups and with government organisations; addressing harm caused in institutional and sexual abuse matters, and addressing adolescent and adult family violence.
Examples of some current consultancy projects:
§ Eastern Metropolitan and Hume Regional Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committees’, Lotjpadhan, Restorative Justice Pilot Project: supporting self-determination in justice & community sectors;
§ Restorative engagement group conferences initiated by victims via Victim’s Support Agency (VSA): working with Department Justice, VSA and Corrections to offer post-sentence and pre-releasing group conferencing in Victoria;
§ Jesuit Social Services, Reform in Youth Correctional Services: provide training & mentoring;
§ Victorian Justice & Community Services, providing training &/or mentoring for
o Youth Justice Operations; Restorative Family Meeting Pilot;
o Children’s Court Youth Diversion Service (CCYD):
o Youth Justice Group Conferencing programs;
§ ACT Justice and Community Safety Directorate: Restorative Justice Unit; deliver “upgrade” training and mentoring for cases of sexual offending and family violence & design/deliver Practice Manual;
§ National Redress Scheme Direct providers, training for delivering Direct Personal Response meetings;
§ Australian National University embedding restorative practices across the ANU;
§ Jesuit Social Services, RESTORE, the Adolescent Family Violence Program pilot in the Family Division at the Melbourne Children’s Court;
§ Jesuit Social Services, Navigator programs: applying RP to support disengaged youth;
§ Barwon child, youth & family organisation, applying restorative practice in family systems;
§ Neighbourhood Justice Centre: provide expert advice on group conferencing in family violence cases, process guidelines, specific skill development training.
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