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“Aveuglement au système"
Introduction aux Cercles Restauratifs
avec Dominic Barter

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Oakland, Etats-Unis
Novembre 2009

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My understanding is that after I've spent
a couple of hours with a group of people

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a justice system has been
established between us.

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And that if I don't think consciously
about what kind of justice system I would like,

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I will inherit the one I've
been given, by default.

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And then the results will turn up
and often I won't enjoy them.

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Now I suffer from "system blindness".
It's a condition that I made up.

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I made up my own diagnosis for myself.
It's the difficulty to see the presence

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of systems of group, ideas and behavior.

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When I inherit a justice system
non-consciously

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with a new group of
people who I'm hanging out with

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and then something goes wrong,
I'm very likely to describe what's happening

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in terms of our individual psychologies.

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As if the thing that had happened
was exclusively within any one of us

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or all of us individually.

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Then I will think that what I need to do to respond to that
is either get away from those individuals

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because unfortunately they're
problematic people who need more therapy,

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more meditation, you know,
 different diets, whatever,

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or, I will try and do the same thing to me,
thinking that the problem is individually with me

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or perhaps I will go to war, and try to fix them,

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by changing them in some way.

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So I become interested over the last few
years in noticing,

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curing myself from "system blindness"
by increasing my ability to notice

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when there are systems present

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in my relationships, that I
haven't consciously chosen.

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For example, I didn't set up the chairs like this.

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Did you ?

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And here we are in a learning
relationship a classroom situation

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that none of us consciously chose and that
may or may not be serving us.

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So I'm fine with power imbalances,
when they're serving me.

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So this is a power imbalance
at the moment

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I'm speaking, I don't know
if you noticed, more than you guys are.

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I'm standing up most of you
are sitting down

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and the design of the chairs and the room

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is meant to make that make
sense and to support it happening.

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And as long as it is actually meeting
the need that it intends to meet,

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which is learning for all of us, I like it.

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But if I'm not conscious
that this is where I am

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if I'm not conscious about
having setup and sustaining the balance of things

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in the way that they are now

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and then it stops serving me

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then I don't like it so much.

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So this work starts
with me questioning:

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do I actually want
the current justice system I have?

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I will try to approximate myself to you guys.
Let's put that using formal justice to start with,

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because it's a little bit easier for us
to quantify on a national level.

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So are you okay
that one in every 34 of you

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is currently being penalised
by your judicial system?

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So one in every 34 Americans apparently
are currently under a judicial order.

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And 1 in every 200 of them
are locked up.

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Which apparently is the largest amount of
people ever locked up anywhere in the world

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and also the largest largest
relationship to the population,

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largest percentage of people in the country
currently imprisoned.

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And it means that 1.7 million children in the US
have a parent who is locked up.

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And normally in the cultural context
that I come from

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first of all growing up in North London
and then over the last 17 years living in Brazil,

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in those cultural contexts, I
had not chosen that strategy consciously.

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I was paying for it and I was kind of, by
default, sustaining it

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because I wasn't consciously questioning it
and rethinking it.

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I thought I was because I misunderstood 
criticizing with questioning.

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So I was quite good at criticizing it
but I've learned that those two things

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criticizing and questioning are actually distinct.
At least that's how I experienced them.

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So I have been learning
to cure my "system blindness" by noticing

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that these responses continue
with my invisible silent or active support.

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And I don't like the results.

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And I've been teaching myself
to question the current ways in which we do justice

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and to experiment
with different ways of doing it.

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I have a question about your use of the word "system"

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When I was a school teacher I had an
exciting idea that I was happy with,

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which was that I would create
a space in the classroom

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where people could opt out of the lesson
without getting into trouble

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with their colleagues or with me and
without having to leave the room

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in which we were having the lesson.
 Which was complicated for me because I was in Brazil

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and in Brazil I'm legally responsible
for those people for the time of the lesson.

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So if I can't see them 
and they're wandering around the corridor

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then there's legal risk for me.

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So I created a space in the room
where the students could go.

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That was day one. That seemed to me
to be possible and exciting.

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It was well received by the kids.

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After about five seconds
after I'd made this suggestion

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and people were smiling and
going wow that's different

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yeah I like that,
 this teacher's weird.

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One of the kids turned to me and he said:
"And if the headmaster comes in through the door

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then will you protect me from him?
if I'm sitting in the corner with my feet up

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you know reading a book or doing the
homework that I want a hand in in the

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next lesson and I'm so stressed because
I haven't done it that I can't

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concentrate on this one so I've taken
ten minutes out to finish my homework

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and then I'll come back to the lesson.

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If the headmaster comes in
will you stand in between me and him?"

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I immediately realized my naivety

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because no I didn't have structural power

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to be able to protect the student
from the headmaster

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if the headmaster decided that what the
student was doing was "wrong".

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That student gave me a quick lesson in
the presence of a system

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which our classroom was within

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and that I was unaware of.

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So that for me is a concrete example
of the presence of a system

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and how easy it is, especially
in a culture which believes that everything is about

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individual choice and decision making and empowerment

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to forget that there are
these systemic contexts

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which we sustain but by
sustaining them they are bigger than us.

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So if I'm getting what you're saying
you're referring to the structure

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and the legal financial psychological

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emotional setup that's in operation

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with our willing agreement or non willing
agreement, we're present in it.

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Yeah.
Ok.

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When it becomes large or habitual enough
to be self-sustaining

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then I experience it as being different
from my individual choices.

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And then I want a name for it so that I can teach myself to become aware of it and question it.

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So I'm using the word "system"
as that name.

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Thank you.
Chears.