Dr Belinda Hopkins and the Transforming Conflict team are frequently invited to address conferences, In-service training events or give workshops. We often use Powerpoint slideshows as a launching pad for interactive activities, using World Café -type activities, pair and group work. Some of these slideshows are similar but they are also constantly evolving as our ideas develop. Feel free to share these slides with your staff but we would appreciate it if you could give credit to Transforming Conflict when you use them.

Belinda was invited to round off the morning on Luton’s Anti-bullying Conference by explaining how restorative approaches were key to responding to bullying incidents

She began by referring to the new book by key anti-bullying and violence reduction campaigners Professor Helen Cowie and Dr Dawn Jennifer - New Perspectives on Bullying (Mcgraw Hill/OUP 2008) which advocates a restorative approach as a key part of a whole school response to bullying.

Belinda facilitated a day’s In-Service Training for the staff of Wallace High School. This is similar to the slides from the previous day but since this school has been using restorative language for the past two years staff were keen to look at certain aspects in more depth.

Wallace High School Presentation.ppt(805KB)

Belinda facilitated a day’s In-Service training for the combined staff teams of Stirling High Schools and Dunblane High School together with representatives from Bannockburn High School and Balfron High School, using the powerpoint slides as a prompt for lots of discussions between different people. The staff were willing to respond to invitations to move around and meet people from different schools, sharing practice and views throughout the day.

The afternoon was run in a more ‘World Café’ style to allow for consideration about how Stirling schools were going to take what they had heard forward.. 

Belinda was invited to run a workshop on restorative approaches in schools and the links to school mediation, which is better known in this part of Europe.

Zagreb Nov 2008.ppt(798KB) 

Key speakers included: Dr Belinda Hopkins Executive Director, Transforming Conflict, Brian Steele, Principal Educational Psychologist, North Lanarkshire, the day was chaired by Dr Gwynedd Lloyd and Gillian McCluskey, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh.

Belinda presented a workshop on the links between the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) curriculum and Restorative Approaches

October 21st SEAL conference.ppt(197KB)

Belinda Hopkins and Dave Eglin gave an introduction to restorative approaches in an authority to multi-agency staff in Barnet. The powerpoint slides that Belinda used as the basis for pair and group discussions is available here for people to use if they want to pass on the information they gleaned from the day.  Click here  

On Sept 26th 2007 Dr Belinda Hopkins gave a lunchtime talk at Trinity College Oxford as part of a series of talks on Restorative Justice and related issues organised by Peter Wallis from the Children, Young People & Family section of Oxford Youth Offending Team. The power point slides of her talk - 'An Introduction to Restorative Justice in Organisations' is available. More ......

For details of the Oxford Lunchtime programme e-mail Peter: 
Peter.Wallis@Oxfordshire.gov.uk

Belinda Hopkins gave a plenary speech, using a powerpoint presentation (click here) which you are welcome to look at.