Complex Contexts and Sensitive Practices, Level 2

Please note there are two course options:

1. RJC accredited, three day in-person course (18th May, 1st June, 2nd June 2026),  plus four online webinars (see dates below)  - £500. Places are limited.

2. Online webinars only (16th April, 23rd April, 30th April, 7th May, from 4-6pm) - £60. Unlimited places.

Please note, if you miss any of the online sessions, you will be able to catch up once you sign up.

All sessions will cover:

• A restorative approach to protecting participants from risks to their freedom to speak and to their safety and well-being.

• A restorative understanding of race hate crime.

• A restorative understanding of homophobic and transphobic hate crime.

• A restorative understanding of domestic abuse.

• A restorative understanding of sexual violence.

• A Trauma Responsive Restorative Process.

If your goal is to qualify for accreditation, it is necessary to participate in all the online sessions and the in-person days.

Webinars will be recorded and made available to paid participants unable to attend specific sessions.

Course information

The course adopts a fresh response to restorative justice practices based upon practice-based evidence and research carried out by Tim Chapman and colleagues. Prior participation in Tim’s Foundation Principles and Practices of Restorative Justice is advisable but not essential. But you should have participated in a foundation restorative justice skills training.

The online sessions (co-led by people who have suffered specific hate crime or gender-based violence and have participated in restorative justice) focus on lived experience and its application. The in-person sessions will be facilitated jointly by people with lived experience of harm and restorative justice, and by Tim Chapman and Anika Cosgrove.

People who have already been trained in complex and sensitive practice skills can just enrol in the online sessions if they are interested in deepening their thinking about restorative justice in a particular area.

Tim Chapman has conducted research into the experience of survivors of serious harm who have participated in restorative processes and has been engaged for over four years in restorative justice practice with adults who have experienced sexual abuse as children. The learning from this has led Tim to review and revise his approach to restorative justice practices. He has also engaged people with lived experience of systemic harm and who will participate actively in facilitating learning.

The course will reflect the internal and external struggles of both victims and perpetrators of harm caused by imbalanced relations of power and surviving trauma.

This is a fresh approach to the practice of restorative justice. It explores how seven elements of restorative processes can be combined to create an exemplary experience of restoration of whatever has been damaged, lost or violated by being harmed or harming someone.

By attending you will:

• Learn and practice the integration of trauma informed principles into the 7 competences which enhance the 7 key conversations that guide participants from inclusion through preparation to the restoration of what matters to them.

• Through these conversations learn to identify potential risks to participants speaking freely with each other, and risks to their safety and well-being, and to identify resources which will protect them from these risks and support them to address what matters to them.

• Learn to engage participants in co-designing restorative meetings in which they are supported and facilitated to say what they want without fear of intimidation, domination or further harm.

• Learn to facilitate complex restorative meetings.

• Learn to evaluate the process with the participants.

This course is for you if:

• You wish to learn how to engage victims of serious and complex harm because you believe that their inclusion and participation are critical to the effectiveness of restoring justice, human dignity, solidarity and truth to participants and the community.

• You believe that restorative justice is value-led and that restorative processes should be co-designed with participants to address what matters to them.

• You believe that narratives and open dialogue generate understanding, responsibility, and commitment to embrace just and respectful relations with others.

• You believe that the origin of most harm is systemic and includes abuses of power and that undoing injustice and restoring personal power are primary motivations of participants in restorative processes.

• You want participants to have an experience of community that frees them from attachment to past harms and restores new possibilities for the future.

Training viability and Cancellation policy

The 3-day training is limited to 20 participants,  and will only go ahead if sufficient bookings are received. In the case of insufficient numbers, any fees paid will be fully refunded. 

Cancellation Policy: 3‑Day Training

• Full refund for cancellations made at least 3 weeks before the training start date.
• Partial refund for cancellations made up to 1 week before the start date.
• No refunds for cancellations made within 1 week of the in‑person accredited event.

Cancellation Policy: Webinar‑Only Tickets

Webinar‑only bookings are non‑refundable.

If you have any questions or need any assistance with your booking, please contact us at info@why-me.org.