Primary Aim: The main goal is to address and repair the harm that has been caused by an incident. 

Addressing Needs: This involves meeting the needs of the victim for healing, the offender's need to make amends, and the community's need for relational health and redress.. 

Building & Maintaining Relationships: Restorative practices focus on building, maintaining, and restoring authentic and positive relationships. 

 Connection: we recognize maintaining positive relationships as a core human need and aim to set relations right. 

Personal Responsibility: Individuals are held accountable for their actions, and the process encourages them to take responsibility for any harm caused. This often includes a need for reflection to consider the breadth of impact and harm.

Dialogue over Justice rather than Punishment: Instead of just receiving punishment, individuals are actively involved in understanding how their actions affected others and determining the best way to repair the harm. 

Fair process incorporating voice and Informed Choice: Participation in restorative processes is voluntary and based on informed choice of both parties (Perpetrator and Victim). 

Safe Environment: Processes are designed to ensure the safety and dignity of all participants, creating a safe space for expressing feelings and views to ensure authenticity and opportunity for healing and restoration.

Learning and Growth: Wrongdoing is seen as an opportunity for learning, growth, and building empathy, fostering a stronger community overall. 

Community Integration: There is an effort to reintegrate offenders back into their community via a fair and agreed process.. 

Availability: Processes should be non-discriminatory and available to all those affected by conflict and harm, provided they are willing to participate restoratively.

Impartiality: Restorative processes are fair, unbiased, and treat all stakeholders with equal concern.