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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
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/restorative-dialogue — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Lucho Rubio & Wouter Buursma via Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA); restorative-practices lineage (VU Mixed Classroom model) — Restorative practice
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