Facilitation and the Law

Facilitation and the Law

Contents of Facilitation and the Law

Contents of this subject matter include:

• Introduction to Facilitation in public and private arena disputes
• Consensus-building processes: Issues, subjects and terminology

  Understanding ; coalition-building processes

• Consensus-building processes: preliminary processes

  The conflict assessment – planning and conducting

  Contracting and convening

• Consensus-building processes: Building consensus

  The deliberating process

  Collaborating and coalescing

• The skills of the facilitator in multi-party public arena disputes:

  Values mapping and other models and strategies

• Special issues in multi-party facilitation

  Consultative processes versus consensus-building processes

  Dealing with an angry public

  Dealing with media interest

  The role of the representative of a constituency

  The “intractable” dispute

  Recognition of values and ethics

• Understanding restorative conferencing
• Restorative processes: Issues, themes and terminology

  History, philosophy and theory development of restorative practices

• Restorative Processes: Models of restorative practices

  The conferencing circle in indigenous and non- indigenous restorative processes

  Victim and offender restorative justice

  Family conferencing

  Community conferencing

  Schools and other institutional restorative processes with education/rehabilitation plus restoration aims

• Special issues in restorative facilitation:

  Retribution versus restoration: reconciling conflicting societal, victim and offender needs

  The role of forgiveness

  The role of transformative techniques and practices

• The skills of the facilitator in restorative processes: models and strategies
• New frontiers: the extension of the use of restorative facilitation processes and new designs and models.