Learn a game changing way to resolve blocks and add relational healing to your dispute resolution practice or couples work
Restorative Practice (RP) has an enormous potential to repair harm. Applying RP in FDR, mediation and family counselling is highly effective and leads to better outcomes. This is a grassroots approach that is quickly learned, easy to adapt into your practice and empowering for your clients. Generally the impact is immediate.
Astrid explains about her approach in the recordings of her presentations below.
National Mediation Conference, Wellington NZ 2023 (18 minutes)
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The approach has changed somewhat since the NMC presentation as workshops are held in various places. Contraindications of the past seem workable now. With many FDRP’s and mediators applying the model currently it is to be expected that the approach will keep evolving.
Your presenter Astrid
Introducing Astrid, a compassionate and authentic professional, with decades of experience in supporting people through challenges of conflict and separation and more.
Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Astrid migrated to Australia in 2008 and resides in the beautiful town of Rubibi (Broome), situated on Yawuru land within the Kimberley region of North West Australia.
For ten years Astrid has played integral roles as a counsellor, child-inclusive practitioner, FDRP, coordinator and supervisor at the Kimberley Family Relationship Centre where she was known for innovation and excellence in her practice.
Today, she operates a private counselling and mediation practice, focusing on relationships with a specialisation in family, couples, and individual counselling, trauma healing as well as private and corporate restorative practice and mediation.
Astrid’s diverse professional background spans academic hospitals, justice systems, learning/intellectual disabilities, mental health, and separation services. Her journey into Restorative Practice (RP) work began in 2010, driven by a passion to address blocks in mediation and counselling that often relate to unresolved hurts or lack of closure in the parental relationship after separation. This passion led her to develop an approach that she refers to as RP-FDR (Restorative Practice in Family Dispute Resolution).
The practice of RP-FDR
This innovative approach has had a profoundly positive impact, not only within her team in North West Australia but also across the broader Australia mediation community. Astrid has presented and conducted workshops, sharing her RP-FDR model, starting in Perth in 2018 and expanding to national and international platforms, including the National Mediation Conference in Wellington, New Zealand and across Australia.
The model proofs to be applicable and highly effective in a wide range of mediation settings as well as in relationship counselling when addressing conflict. It has been embraced by fellow dispute resolution professionals, leading to a growing interest in training in this easy to learn approach.
While Astrid is now a highly trained couples therapist, it’s noteworthy that she developed the model when she was not yet in this role. This underscores the adaptability of the approach for mediators, whether from a social scientist, legal, or other background. So far other professionals such as family therapists, child consultants, psychologists and managers and directors in the field are enjoying Astrid’s approach and workshops.
If you are keen to expand your practice skills, find your opportunity to attend workshops online or in person, either in the booking calendar or the shop for recordings.
Workshop content
Restorative Practice in mediation or counselling
Elaborating on a talk presented to the National Mediation Conference as well as online across the globe, Astrid will conduct a workshop on how she has incorporated restorative practice into her FDR practice for seemingly intractable cases. She will outline how to assess which cases are appropriate and which are not, and then supervise role plays in which participants will play clients and RP practitioner with subsequent feedback, reflection and questions. The model is equally applicable in couples or family counselling where after creating the opportunity for repair, further work toward connection and healing is enabled.
Programme
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