Systèmes et facilitation/Sous-titres vidéo F1/en

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,840 Avant-Cercle du facilitateur Partie pédagogique

2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,360 Facilitateur de Cercles Restauratifs Pratique avec Dominique Barter

3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:10,160 The next thing that I want to do is to check my connection with colleagues.

4 00:00:10,180 --> 00:00:15,860 I want to check my support structure that involves other people.

5 00:00:15,860 --> 00:00:22,580 Now most of the time I would encourage facilitators to work collectively in teams

6 00:00:22,580 --> 00:00:28,180 partly for logistical reasons partly because I would like facilitators

7 00:00:28,180 --> 00:00:35,540 to reflect the community that the restorative system in which they work is serving

8 00:00:35,540 --> 00:00:42,520 so that there is a little bit of choice for that community as to who facilitate circles

9 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:47,320 and so that the people who facilitate their circles in some way

10 00:00:47,340 --> 00:00:55,920 share the life experience that they have. But also because facilitators support each other.

11 00:00:55,940 --> 00:01:00,670 So that's not always possible as it's not always possible to have people

12 00:01:00,670 --> 00:01:05,660 physically in the same space with you in the same restorative system close at hand

13 00:01:05,660 --> 00:01:11,200 but happily using technology using phones and internet and other forms

14 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,650 it's mostly possible for us to make contact with other facilitators these days

15 00:01:14,650 --> 00:01:19,570 without too much trouble. And that's important for me, because

16 00:01:19,570 --> 00:01:27,369 I noticed that I am inevitably going to form particular ideas about myself

17 00:01:27,369 --> 00:01:31,479 about the other participants and about the particular issue

18 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:36,520 that we're going to work on in a specific restorative process.

19 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:42,640 So I want the support of my colleagues to enable me to reconnect to fluidity

20 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:50,060 to reconnect to a place of possibility to reconnect to not knowing.

21 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:56,610 So I sometimes call this moment the facilitators pre circle.

22 00:01:58,759 --> 00:02:04,979 It is an encounter of support between one facilitator and another.

23 00:02:04,979 --> 00:02:10,019 It can happen at any time before the circle. So it can happen before the first pre circle

24 00:02:10,019 --> 00:02:15,360 or between the first and the second or between the second and the third,

25 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:20,040 it can happen more than once if necessary.

26 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:26,080 And it is the single most frequently forgotten step in the work

27 00:02:26,099 --> 00:02:33,950 that the facilitator does. Because it's a lovely idea for which I don't have time.

28 00:02:34,940 --> 00:02:39,390 So much so, that in most of the restorative systems that I've been part of

29 00:02:39,390 --> 00:02:43,860 setting up in Brazil, we've organized it such that it is no longer

30 00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:50,400 the responsibility of the facilitator to request their pre circle

31 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:57,840 it's the responsibility of their colleagues to offer that pre circle and offer

32 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:05,220 in inverted commas because sometimes that offering is really quite direct.

33 00:03:05,220 --> 00:03:13,840 It's not obligatory, but it's something that people learn to do with

34 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:19,960 with some clarity of intention let's say and I've seen facilitators actually

35 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:25,120 running after colleagues as the colleagues walk down the corridor towards a particular

36 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:30,640 pre circle to check that this person is really ok and actually

37 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:35,519 getting in their way before they have a sense yes I am going

38 00:03:35,519 --> 00:03:39,599 to this pre circle with a sense of openness and possibility.

39 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:46,919 Because it's probably not, "if" you develop ideas about yourself, others, and the situation.

40 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:53,680 It's more likely to be "when" you develop ideas about yourself, the others, and the situation.

41 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:59,560 Just as I say that I've never been in a restorative circle without having been triggered, myself

42 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,600 it's very unlikely that I will be doing pre circles

43 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:09,060 without in some way developing ideas about who really is to blame

44 00:04:09,060 --> 00:04:12,680 who's really suffered what people should have done

45 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:20,360 and what it is that I will be able to offer these people whether they like it or not.

46 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:26,640 So I really value having the support of another facilitator in a facilitator pre circle.