Rather than focus on what is broken, they can think about where there are people who are doing brave things and tell restorative narratives that have solutions embodied in them.And we also want to help artists to sustain their livelihoods and to imagine their professions as pragmatic and meaningful
reconcile where there is no restorative justice in my village, which I'll use an example like which I know why my grandfather died, had and angry was that there was no restorative justice, which I see also in the US that there's no restorative justice yet. And what is restorative justice look like in my A family or in myvillage? Is that in my village there's a communal courts with the chief of the tribal chief and sometimes
been racial injustices, you cannot take people out of their country slaves and use them to build your own country. And then there is no restoration. There's no restorative justice. There's no reparation. There's no atonement, an apology given sincere one and only anotherhuman being will know whether that apology is sincere or not. That doesn't need a scientific calculation or algorithm. We know when someone is being sincere or
about storytelling? And to top it all, I'm so lucky I'm an African. So I grew up in storytelling. We grew up in Restorative justice? What are we doing? We are being a relevant, responsible citizen. And what are we doing culture
So as the video showed, we have a model that we have seen is successful in ending trafficking, spreading awareness, preventing the crime, and providing restorative care to those who have been victimized by it.And as you see in the diagram, what holds rescue restoration and reform together is collaboration because no organization,
And this year, I would imagine they've sent around 20, 25 Ugandan victims who have been trafficked to Thailand back to Uganda to receive restorative care and be reintegrated back into communities.However, we don't just stop there.
I mean, is reformative justice-- Restorative justice? Restorative justice. Yes. Is that something that you're going to touch upon during the course of the talk?Now that you brought it up, sure.
Reflective nostalgia dwells on the ambivalences of human longing and belonging and does not shy away from the contradictions of modernity. Restorative nostalgia protects the absolute truth, while reflective nostalgia calls it into doubt." And visually, "Morris Lessmore" does resemble this reflectivenostalgia, lingering on, to quote Boym here, "ruins, the patina of time and history, and the dreams of another place, another time."
at restorative yoga. And this is a really easy way into yoga. Restorative yoga -- you basically lie around in a bunch of different positions, hugging pillows and breathing. And this study showed that people who practicedrestorative yoga have lower baseline levels of inflammation.
Restorative yoga -- you basically lie around in a bunch of different positions, hugging pillows and breathing. And this study showed that people who practicedrestorative yoga have lower baseline levels of inflammation.And this is really key, because inflammation -- circulating levels of inflammation in your body -- prime you to experience pain. They sensitize the nerves so you're more likely
hip hop, the vernacular expressed through architecture and movement-- all of which shows that the bones that lie underground And restorative justice is more a way of, saying let's at least have the truth be told.
for you will make you feel better at work too. Of restorative yoga slowing down and yin.
on the left side where it says SLE the column for Sleep problem there's chronic snoring excessive daytime sleepiness and non-restorative sleep and if you go over towards the right side this is basically the frequency of nighttime symptoms um of someone who has nasal congestion and
you know just like nasal congestion um have a high um percentage of having snoring daytime sleepiness and non-restorative sleep so this study was done um and the the total number of patients was 4,927 so looking at this where it circled 47% of these people actually
And other studies have shown that yoga can really change the way that the nervous system responds to stress. There's a study that just came out looking at restorative yoga. And this is a really easy way into yoga. Restorative yoga -- you basically lie around in a bunch of different positions, hugging pillows and breathing. And this study showed that people who practiced
There's obviously the more extreme version of that, which is the death penalty, which I don't adhere to, but I could see the rationalization of, well, you stole somebody else's life, so you don't there's that restorative justice model where forgiveness, I think, belongs to the families. Some families, of course, want the most extreme punishment. That's
All living things are exactly the same. They need that restorative half to have the upstate be powerful. Yeah, there's a quote in your book that really stuck out to me, in the beginning of the book, that you wrote "most of us live our lives
in the duration of REM sleep, rapid eye movement sleep. That's the restorative phase of sleep, you may know, during which we organize our thoughts, run through traumatic events, and maintain mental health better. So an extension of REM could be very, very important.
So I say that because there is such a reward for going down this path. It is so restorative not just of history, but of humanity. Kimberly, you know, we're from the same tribe and the same reservations.
intellectual pursuit. The idea of people of privilege having to be inconvenienced, to reconcile and to apologize and to be restorative is also, to some extent, speaking for myself. It's a bit theoretical. I don't know exactly what it is to be white to experience this this idea of white privilege, etcetera. But on my side of this equation, where you articulate that black people have to give to, I wonder you thought about what it means
And then they take responsibility and say, what can I do? A lot of this restorative behavior has been practiced in indigenous cultures for a long time. And in one case that I find really dramatic, there is a large community in sub-Saharan Africa called
That's because that's what the "normal," unquote, system does. Every time I do restorative justice, I gain a relationship. So we have a long range program at Metta Center to try to get restorative justice into the schools.
And to explain what I mean, I'm going to borrow Svetlana Boym's very useful distinction between different kinds of nostalgia. She distinguishes between restorative nostalgia and reflectiveness nostalgia. And Joyce's work, I think, cloaks the former in the latter.
It was a really amazing interaction between this seven-year-old, or whatever age she was, and these adults and these students. I think restorative justice is a much better way to approach school discipline and punishment as opposed to zero tolerance policies. Because zero tolerance policies disproportionately affects children of color.
I mean a real break. The most restorative kinds of breaks are things where your mind can really wander. And each of us has a different way that we can kick start that process.
like trees, water, bodies of water, mountains, flowers, and shrubs. That's a very restorative environment. I used to work in the laboratory of Amos Tversky here at Stanford who did a lot of work on decision making.
And that's no coincidence. This is a restorative creative act. So exercise, taking walks, taking a nap, literature, reading.
and be restorative to the community.
It’s very restorative for your brain to use the natural sounds to bring yourself from
resistance uh those with chronic rtis are more likely to report habitual snoring chronic daytime sleepiness daytime fatigue and non-restorative sleep and then those with nasal congestion due to allergies are twice as likely to have moderate to severe sleep apne than those without so if you have nasal congestion please
They' are both working on pressing, complex problems. Liam's conversation was about restorative justice and the community task force he led, co-led in Oakland to reimagine public safety and policing. And all of the recommendations emerging from these task force community sessions ended up being financed and implemented and will be so instructive
So I'd love to hear what inspired you to write this book. And the moon becomes a restorative place of connection where people who speak different language become mutually intelligible, and people of different faiths
and that our time can be restorative in a way that really helps us throughout our week.
is very difficult to reconcile when there's no restorative justice. It is very difficult to truly reconcile where there is no restorative justice in my village, which I'll use an example like which I know why my grandfather died, had and angry was that there was no restorative justice, which I see also in the US that there's no restorative justice yet. And what is restorative justice look like in my A family or in my
then what would we need to sacrifice for us to achieve this long term goal? And it might be things like once I get reparations or once I get restorative justice, I need to move on. I need to take and trust and give benefit of doubt. I need to assume good intentions. I need to give radical candor feedback. I need to not immediately
but it turns out the really restorative stuff is often much more physically engaging, much more often mentally demanding.
Lots of people really believe in the restorative power of avocado leaf and the flavor power.
"The most fundamental feature of a restorative place is that people have to feel that they can move into those spaces and have a wonderful experience."
And it was sold as a restorative , as a pick-me-up.
There's obviously the more extreme version of that, which is the death penalty, which I don't adhere to, but I could see the rationalization of, well, you stole somebody else's life, so you don't some who are much more keen on something called restorative justice, which is where they... what they want is for the person to apologize, the
In celebration of Women's History Month, we welcome Dr. Sara C. Mednick to discuss her new book, "The Power Of Downstate, Recharging Your Life Using Your Body's Own Restorative Systems." If you're like most people, the relentless daily grind of go, go, go, do, do, do, can run down your energy and deplete your resources.
So that is really a constant level of psychological fatigue that can build up, and eventually, if not really met with a good balance of restorative and replenishing activities, can lead to burnout. So I started my research career-- my dissertation was on the fatigue at the neural level.
It's one piece. It's one piece. Doing downstate activities in the middle of the day are incredibly restorative .
It's one piece. It's one piece. Yeah, the restorative . We have a few more questions, actually, that are coming through.
And a lot of it was very similar to restorative justice principles.
lost land, which he worked hard for, and he never got it back. And one of the things I learned from that is that it is very difficult to reconcile when there's no restorative justice. It is very difficult to truly reconcile where there is no restorative justice in my village, which I'll use an example like which I know why my grandfather died, had and angry was that there was no
Right. It's something restorative and creative.
So we miss out on some of that deep restorative sleep.
You don't get the same level of restorative sleep.
Yes, I'd be happy to. Yeah. Restorative justice is based on the idea that when there's been what is otherwise called a crime, what's actually at issue is harm.