LIVE Virtual Session
90
minutes
Live virtual
May 21st
2026

Restorative Practice: Building Relational Culture by Design

This session explores how restorative practice can be used as a framework to intentionally design cultures where relationships, trust, and belonging are at the centre. 

Who is this course for?

This session is ideal for:

Foster carers

Social workers

Teachers

Leaving care staff

Anyone working with children in care, care leavers or those with a social worker

About the session

This session explores how restorative practice can be used as a framework to intentionally design cultures where relationships, trust, and belonging are at the centre. Rather than relying on behaviour management systems or reacting to crises, restorative practice offers a proactive approach embedding values of fairness, respect, and accountability into everyday interactions. 
  
Participants will be invited to reflect on how culture is shaped not by policies alone, but by the countless micro-moments that make up daily life in homes, teams, and organisations. Together, we will explore the importance of prioritising what counts, the quality of relationships, the sense of belonging, the strength of community over what we simply have to count in reports and performance measures.  
  
This shift allows us to design cultures where people feel seen, valued, and supported, and where challenge is balanced with care. 

Learning outcomes

  • Understand how restorative practice underpins the intentional design of relational cultures. 
  • Identify the principles of high challenge and high support and their practical application. 
  • Explore the model of high challenge and high support - working WITH 
  • Learn strategies to embed restorative approaches into daily practice and decision-making. 
  • Reflect on how fairness and trust are built through engagement, explanation, and expectation (Fair Process). 
  • Recognise the importance of focusing on what counts in building culture, rather than only on what we are required to count. 

Community conversation

Join us on LinkedIn to continue the conversation. Two weeks after the live session, we'll be hosting a community conversation where you can hear more about the topic and ask any questions you have.

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Presenter

Mark Finnis

Mark Finnis is the founder and director of L30 Relational Systems and has more than twenty years’ experience of working with organisations large and small, both nationally and internationally.  Mark has been involved in the national development of restorative practices since the late 1990s.   
 
He then became the UK Assistant Director for the International Institute for Restorative Practices. 
 
He then moved to a new and exciting role as the Director of Training and Consultancy at Hull Centre for Restorative Practice in 2007 where he helped the city achieve its position as the world’s first Restorative City.   
 
Mark then worked with Leeds City Council Children’s Services for five years to develop Restorative practice as part of its vision of a Child-Friendly City.   
 
Mark has since gone on to work alongside 26 Children Services and schools and organisations’ around the country helping to improve outcome and impact across communities. 
 
Mark is the author of the book, Independent Thinking On Restorative Practice: Building relationships, improving behaviours and creating stronger communities, which is a number 1 best seller on Amazon.  
 
In 2019 he received the Chris Donovan Trust’s Restorative Practice Champion award in recognition of his work nationally across communities.  
 
Mark has advised on national policy and practice development since 2005 and was part of a small group who rewrote the national best practice guidance for restorative practitioners in 2012. 
 
Mark is also trained as an Family Group Conference coordinator and is a licensed NLP Master Practitioner trained and certified under Dr Richard Bandler.  
 
He is also a dad of five children, a proud scouser and loves his dog called Dexter.  
 
Connect with via twitter @markfinnis and his website is L30Relationalsystems.co.uk  

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