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Network for Building Restorative Communities

Building Restorative Communities Network is made up of people involved in community and youth work, education and family support services. The Network also includes many community members and leaders living and working in Dublin’s north inner city.

These people are interested in looking to restorative ways of building relationships based on empathy, trust and learning that can help to repair damage that may have been done over generations. They are trying to learn from each other about applying new ways of working that fit their context,

The platform provides a space where ideas and responses can be shared and tested. Resources that look at how we can learn more about restorative practices, including training opportunities, videos and community news items can be shared.

New discussions can be started and new groups formed, all to better support the spread of restorative and relational practices within our communities.

What is the Building Restorative Communities Network?

The aim of the network is to bring people together who are interested in learning more about restorative practice and how it can be used in their work, community and family life.

Restorative practices are used around the world to give a focus to challenges facing communities and to give people a unified voice to address problems, such as lack of services, community events and safer community initiatives.

Why join the Building Restorative Communities Network?

People who have participated in restorative practice training and are using it as a way of working report that their work is easier, more enjoyable and more effective. Parents report better relationships with their children, residents report better relationships with their neighbours, and young people report increased confidence and better relationships with their teachers, their families, their friends and their peers.

As well as being a space for enabling community discussion, as a learning platform, people can build their own library of resources and materials. People can also come along for a rant, as long as they are willing to stay and share ideas about how to restoratively reshape our community.