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Restorative Dialogue
A repair practice for after classroom or team "hot moments": once a discussion has run too intense, the group returns to it deliberately — reflecting on what happened, exchanging how it landed, and restoring working relationship before moving on. Conflict aftermath treated as curriculum, not embarrassment.
Prerequisites
- A real hot moment the group shared; enough cooling time for reflection, not so much that it calcifies
- Whoever was hurt in the original moment must not be re-exposed by the repair — check in individually first
Practical
- Time
- 60 min
- Group
- 16–20 · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Mentimeter or flip chart
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, emotional-processing, perspective-taking
- Change scope
- state → skill · one-off
Origin & where it lives
Lucho Rubio & Wouter Buursma via Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA); restorative-practices lineage (VU Mixed Classroom model) — Restorative practice
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox
Related: nvc dialogue practice (pairs-with)
One of the few tools mapping to Forgiveness (R5, new in the revised framework) — repair practices are that skill's natural habitat.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25