Restorative Questions
What happened? • What were you thinking at the time? • What have you thought about since? • Who has been affected by what you did? • In what way? • What do you think you need to do to make things right?Restorative Questions for someone affected by the actions/impacts of another
What did you think when you realized what had happened? • What impact has this incident had on you and others? • What has been the hardest thing for you? • What do you think needs to happen to make things right?
- Try out and use these Restorative Questions when things go wrong or things aren’t working out right .
- What happened? • What were you thinking at the time? • What have you thought about since? • Who has been affected by what you did? • In what way? • What do you think you need to do to make things right?
- Restorative Questions for someone affected by the actions/impacts of another
- What did you think when you realized what had happened? • What impact has this incident had on you and others? • What has been the hardest thing for you? • What do you think needs to happen to make things right?
- Try out these phrases and Rumble Language from Brene Brown – phrases to help you stay curious
- I’m curious about… Tell me more…That’s not my experience…I’m wondering…Help me understand…Walk me through that…What’s your passion around this…Tell me why this doesn’t fit/work for you...
- Use at least 1 of these restorative questions or rumble language phrases with each student or adult on your “mylist”.
- Here are some additional versions of questions that you can “try on” to see how they fit for you:
Restorative Classroom Practice – a short pdf from Belinda Hopkins
Questions from belinda hopkins copy.pdf
Grounded Confidence = Rumble Skills + Curiosity + Practice by Brene Brown