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Restorative Practice Seminar Series 2022

NED Foundation has been supporting monthly Restorative Practice (RP) community of practice Zoom gatherings.

This initiative now evolves into a bimonthly seminar series, as a way of enabling Restorative Practitioners to share their personal stories and challenges in their specific streams of RP.

The schedule for 2022 and into 2023 is online. A page has been created to convey information about the sessions and to allow you to express interest in receiving an invitation. The page is on our associated site, Australian Restorative Mapping.

The most recent session was on August 11, Fiona Wood - Schools. Fiona shared key experiences in her career as a mother, a teacher and a principal. She told personal stories to demonstrate how to deal with the most demanding aspects of restorative practice is a way of being not a set of techniques.

Coming up Next, on Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 17:30:

Kerrie Sellen - Youth and Families

Click through to go into the Restorative Practice Seminar Series page

Australian Restorative Mapping

The NED Foundation has long had a strong commitment to an explicit restorative culture in both the way it works as an organisation and also how it relates to those with whom it works.

NED seeks to support and nurture restorative practice, and to this end, has established a restorative practice mapping site (link is external).

The site provides a platform for both individuals and organisations to represent their restorative engagement, and also to share their stories.

The information on the mapping site is provided by the individual or organisation, and their presence on the site is not an endorsement by the NED Foundation.

Should you wish to explore the possibility of yourself or your organisation having a presence on the mapping site, please contact Ian De Landelles, by using our contact form

Australian Restorative Mapping Dashboard

NED Foundation Supported Projects

NED Foundation is looking for people whose values and goals align with ours. If you too have been asking ‘what does the world need now?’ and have come up with an idea for a project that will contribute to the evolution of transformational change, we would love to hear about it.

More Information

Supported Projects - A Sample of 3

First People First

In 2018 NED supported the First Peoples First Cultural Foundation (based in Mossman) to develop an e-book to support the learning of Kuku Yalanji Language. Balkan Bakal Ku Ku Kubirrinka Yala Manjalaka tells the story of Kubirri and The Mountain.

The project is inclusive of original artworks; oral storytelling, songs, dance and film combined within a multi touch bi-lingual E-book.

Cooya Beach project

The Kuku Yalanji people of Far North Queensland have developed an ambitious plan to regenerate their language and culture and preserve both for future generations. As they told us language comes from Country and all the songs, dances, artworks, and ways in which people live are connected. They developed an e-book to support language learning and have had remarkable success in persuading the local school to teach language to all the children. As part of this project, they approached NED to support their Cooya Beach project.

Where the Water Starts

Richard Swain, Ngarrindjeri Elder Uncle Moogy Sumner and Yuin Elder Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison at 'Nariong"

In 2020 NED supported Amanda King in engaging an Impact Manager to assist in promoting her film, Where the Water Starts, which launched in 2021.

Amanda worked closely with Yuin Elder, Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison and Richard Swain, the Indigenous Ambassador, who holds an honorary role for the Invasive Species Council, to understand the issues relating to brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park. Both the environmental impacts and the way in which the issue affects the Aboriginal Community and their relationship with this site of significant spiritual significance have been considered The appeal they make is for a limit to be placed on brumbies in the park rather than to remove their presence entirely. The film supports the ongoing work of Richard Swain who continues to campaign.

The NED Foundation Supports Restorative Practice

Restorative City Image used with permission of Samantha Asvestas Photography.

The NED Board has an interest in encouraging and supporting the adoption of Restorative Practice in Australia. The founder of NED, Ned Iceton was instrumental in bringing the value of this work to the attention of the NED community.

The board has asked Mary Porter AM, to continue promoting and advancing knowledge of Restorative Practice in Australia and internationally.

Restorative Understandings: A Repository of Resource Links

A sample of 4 from our repository of resources:

Restoring Community

Building a healthy, connected and cohesive community is the restorative vision community leaders have for Deniliquin following the stresses of drought and COVID-19,

A new committee will...

Workplaces – Australian Association for Restorative Justice

'Restorative practices, and relationship management more broadly, can be part of broader exercise of consciously redesigning for a more conflict resilient workplace. Again, this approach is based...

Discovering the True Potential of Restorative Practices

Discovering Restorative’s True Potential - Free Webinar Terry O'Connell, Kerrie Sellen and Paulo Moratelli are offering a FREE webinar to talk about how Restorative Practice can be used to...

There is an art and science to making an effective apology

'Howard Zehr is considered “the grandfather of restorative justice.” Zehr describes about the four key components: “Apology may be difficult but the formula is quite simple: an apology requires us...

"All humans are hardwired to connect. Just as we need food, shelter and clothing, human beings also need strong and meaningful relationships to thrive.

Restorative practice is an emerging social science that studies how to strengthen relationships between individuals as well as social connections within communities. Though new to the social sciences, restorative practice has deep roots within indigenous communities throughout the world."

- International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Europe

The NED Foundation Supports The Social Developers' Network

What is The Social Developer's Network (SDN)?

The Social Developers' Network is a non-profit, free association of people with a commitment to personal and social development.
Social Developers meet at national and regional workshops, to contribute and share knowledge and experiences.
Between workshops Social Developers keep in touch in person, by phone and mail, and online.

In 1975 two long-standing friends, John Russell from Melbourne and Ned Iceton from Armidale organized a first workshop ...