{"id":89,"date":"2009-12-09T13:39:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2009-12-09T13:42:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:42:19","slug":"howard-zehrs-list-to-apply-restorative-justice-in-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Howard Zehr’s List to Apply Restorative Justice in Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor and author Howard Zehr<\/a>, commonly referred to as the grandfather of the modern restorative justice movement, has written a list of ten ways to live restoratively in his November 27, 2009 blog: http:\/\/emu.edu\/blog\/restorative-justice\/2009\/11\/27\/10-ways-to-live-restoratively\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Professor Zehr\u2019s landmark book Changing Lenses <\/a>is one of the first books I read about restorative justice about 15 years ago.\u00a0 Since then I have referred it to anyone wanting to learn about restorative justice.\u00a0 I have also used it as a text book for administration of justice college courses, and students always comment on how much they like it.<\/p>\n

Dr. Zehr\u2019s blog list of how we can live more restoratively is exhaustive, and if we all only applied one or two of his suggestions, our world would be a happier and safer place.<\/p>\n

For example, simply applying suggestion number six to \u201cView the conflicts and harms in your life as opportunities\u201d would help us appreciate getting what we don\u2019t want and not getting what we do want.\u00a0 Conflicts between individuals and countries often are generated by the inevitable fact of life that we will not always get what they want.\u00a0 Instead of appreciating the wisdom that our conflicts and harms can teach us, we often explode like small children, screaming and kicking and trying to hurt others back as much as they have hurt us.<\/p>\n

Allowing our destructive emotions to control our behavior, we create more serious conflicts and harms for others and ourselves.\u00a0 Understanding our emotions, and feeling pain and sorrow, without reacting negatively when we have them, is part of social learning, something that we can all benefit from no matter what our experiences in life.\u00a0 Wisdom is made up of the collection of events we have experienced in life, both the painful and joyful ones.<\/p>\n

Thank you Dr. Zehr for all your work in promoting a restorative world and preparing this list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor and author Howard Zehr, commonly referred to as the grandfather of the modern restorative justice movement, has written a list of ten ways to live restoratively in his November 27, 2009 blog: http:\/\/emu.edu\/blog\/restorative-justice\/2009\/11\/27\/10-ways-to-live-restoratively\/ Professor Zehr\u2019s landmark book Changing Lenses is one of the first books I read about restorative justice about 15 years ago.\u00a0 Since then I have referred it to anyone wanting to learn about restorative justice.\u00a0 I have also used it as… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,6,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}