Here is a video I found moving and revealing, featuring two people whose lives were radically changed by participation in a Restorative practice.

It was produced by a local RJ community group in England.

I'm struck as I watch it by the intensity that the simple composition of a circle can generate. It is as if that formation is the key to an outpouring - and a corresponding 'inpouring' - of meaning, reflection and truth. Something that can provide an initial impulse to change the course of people's lives.

I also notice the class diferences - with all the multilayered complexity that this represents in the UK, stretching back hundreds of years - between the two men. I long for that aspect of their conflict to be a key part of the process the restorative meeting supports to change - and celebrate how specific the Action Agreement stage is in the Circles I teach, participate in and facilitate. I celebrate how that brings the structural conflict and imbalance of power that pre-dates violence and crime to the fore, supporting the possibility of changes to the relationships within which the harm manifested.

I hope the video is valuable for you.