DEVELOPING RESTORATIVE ORGANIZATIONS PAX 688 SPI 2015 Session 2 - May 14 - 22, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. INSTRUCTOR’S INFORMATION: David Brubaker, Ph.D. [email protected] 540-432-4423 Sigal Shoham, MA [email protected] 908-917-8809 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course combines an organizational development perspective with a restorative justice lens in order to enable participants to develop restorative practices in their organizations. Participants will discuss ways to develop a healthy organization that prioritizes internal and external relationships—utilizing restorative practices in the context of an integrated and appropriate conflict management system. COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To understand the principles and practices of organizational development and leading organizational change. 2. To incorporate principles of restorative justice and explore how they can be applied as restorative practices in an organizational context. 3. To understand the nature of integrated and appropriate conflict management systems and the role of restorative practices in organizational systems. 4. To develop practical ideas for implementing restorative practices in participants’ unique organizational contexts. REQUIRED TEXTS AND OTHER RESOURCES: Brubaker, David R. and Zimmerman, Ruth Hoover (2009). The Little Book of Healthy Organizations. Intercourse, PA: Good Books. ISBN 978-1-56148-664-9. List Price $4.95. Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander, and Linsky, Marty (2009). The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. Boston: Harvard Business Press. ISBN 978-1-4221-0576-4. List Price $24.95. Senge, Peter M. (2006). The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385517256. List Price $24.99. Zehr, Howard (2002). The Little Book of Restorative Justice. Intercourse, PA: Good Books. ISBN 978-1-5614-8376-1. List Prices $4.95. © 2015 Brubaker and Shoham PAX 688 Summer Peacebuilding Institute 1 Articles to be posted on course Moodle site or distributed in class. This book is a reference for all CJP courses: Lunsford, Andrea A. (2014). The Everyday Writer, 5th Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. ISBN 978-14576-6082-5. Approximately $65 on line. A special EMU edition is available at the bookstore for $77 and there are copies on reserve in the library. All CJP graduate students are encouraged to purchase the book. REQUIRED ASSIGNMENTS: 1) A system map that describes the current structures for handling conflict in your organization, including a description of the conflict culture in your organization (25 points). 2) An interview with a restorative justice practitioners that focuses on the values and principles of their work, and how they implement them in their practice. This will include your reflection on the interview and what values and principles you would most want to see implemented in your organizational context. (25 points) 3) A proposal for your organization to increase or expand the restorative practices within your organization’s conflict system. The proposal will also need to describe the process for development and implementation, and a strategy for forming a team that would move the project forward. (40 points) 4) Class participation. (10 points) These are brief descriptions of required graded assignments for the course. More details for each assignment can be found on the “Guidance Notes” that will be provided in class. Students taking the course for two credit hours (rather than three) will only need to complete the first two assignments, plus participate actively in class discussions and activities and do all required readings. Students taking the course for training will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and activities and read selected articles. DAILY CLASS SCHEDULE: THE CLASS WILL MEET DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SUMMER PEACEBUILDING INSTITUTE, FROM MAY 14 THROUGH 22 (NOT INCLUDING THE WEEKEND OF MAY 16 AND 17). WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE FIRST AND LAST DAYS OF CLASS, THE CLASS WILL BEGIN AT 8:30 A.M. AND CONCLUDE BY 5:00 P.M., WITH A TWOHOUR BLOCK FOR LUNCH (FROM 12:00 TO 2:00 P.M.). THE LOCATION WILL BE DETERMINED PRIOR TO THE START OF CLASS, BUT WILL BE HELD ON THE CAMPUS OF EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY. SPI ATTENDANCE POLICY: No participant can register for a course if they know they must miss more than two days of the course. SPI certificates are provided to participants only if they miss no more than one class day. For-credit participants are expected to attend all class sessions unless they are given permission from the instructor to miss a session. SPI courses rely on active student participation in a learning community. If a participant misses class repeatedly and this disrupts the learning for others, he/she will be asked to leave the course and no money will be refunded for remaining course time. GRADING CRITERIA AND OTHER POLICIES: © 2015 Brubaker and Shoham PAX 688 Summer Peacebuilding Institute 2