Relationship Repair & Navigating Family Conflict
This 6-week restorative parenting class is designed not only to strengthen relationships between parents and children, but also to nurture and restore parents themselves. Grounded in the principles of restorative justice and restorative practices, this training presents a relationship-centered approach focusing on connection, understanding, accountability, and healing. Restorative parenting helps families build trust, improve communication, and create healthy relationships that allow both children and parents to grow and thrive.
Participants will:
- Improve communication using restorative parenting approach
- Create a personalized restorative parenting plan
- Strengthen positive listening skills
Who is this training for?
This training is open to any parent seeking a greater understanding/relationship with their children/students/or children in their care, including foster families.
This training is designed to:
- Build effective communication skills, including active listening, empathy, respectful dialogue, and responding to children’s needs with greater understanding.
- Learn restorative discipline practices that emphasize accountability, repairing harm, problem-solving, and helping children take responsibility for their choices.
- Increase understanding of child development, including age-appropriate behavior, emotional development, and realistic expectations.
- Strengthen family conflict resolution skills through constructive communication, collaborative problem-solving, and relationship repair.
- Promote emotional regulation by helping parents manage their own stress and emotions while supporting children in coping with challenges.
- Create healthy family environments through positive routines, clear boundaries, mutual respect, responsibility, and increased parenting confidence.
Meet Your Instructor
Kate Miller is a conflict resolution specialist, restorative justice practitioner, and author of Inspirational Parenting. She has worked for more than 20 years helping individuals and families build healthier relationships through communication, accountability, and healing-centered practices. Kate facilitates parenting education, restorative justice programs, and conflict resolution interventions designed to promote lasting behavioral change and strengthen family connections. Kate holds a Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution and a Bachelor of Arts in Counseling, is Court-Certified Domestic Violence Provider, Certified Victim Advocate, and holds advanced training in restorative justice, mediation, and practices. Kate is dedicated to empowering parents, strengthening families, and creating opportunities for healing, growth, and positive change.
Schedule
Saturdays, 10a-12p EST, August 15 – Sep 19
Training Cost & Equity
We are committed to making our trainings accessible to community workers, educators, and others with limited financial resources. If this applies to you, you may enter the code RESTORE at checkout to receive a 25% scholarship.
Training Outline
Week 1: Foundations of Restorative Parenting (Second week of August)
- What is restorative parenting?
- Moving from frustration to tools and steps
- Building connection before correction.
- Learning Objectives:
- Understand restorative parenting principles.
- Identify current parenting strengths and challenges.
- Activities: Family strengths inventory, Reflection exercise: “The Parent I Want to Be.”
Week 2: Embracing Uniqueness (Third week of August)
- Child development and age-appropriate expectations.
- We all have special talents
- Learning Objectives:
- Respond to behavior with understanding rather than reaction.
- Discovering our child’s gifts
- Activities: Parent-child connection exercises
Week 3: Communication That Builds Trust (Fourth week of August)
- Active listening
- Effective communication techniques
- Learning Objectives:
- Practice listening for understanding
- Learn restorative conversations
- Activities: Communication role plays, listening exercises
Week 4: Finding the calm in the storm (First week of September)
- Managing stress and emotional triggers
- Learning Objectives:
- Identify personal triggers
- Develop healthy coping strategies
- Activities: Emotional awareness exercises
Week 5: Restorative Discipline (Second week of September)
- Accountability without shame
- Learning Objectives:
- Apply restorative responses to conflict
- Help children take responsibility for choices
- Activities: Restorative questions practice, family conflict case studies.
Week 6: Creating Lasting Change (Third week of September)
- Long-term parenting goals.
- Celebrating Restorative Justice
- Learning Objective:
- Identify ongoing resources and support systems.
- Activities: Personal growth reflection