Restorative justice is powerful. I confronted 1 of my victims face to face and listened to her story long ago. She talked about how deeply I affected her, how alone she felt, how she suffered from the bad things people did to her, from people blaming her for being a victim, and treating her like an outcast. She basically said "I needed you.. you were my role model but you hurt me.." we were crying like babies. I felt so guilty over what I did that I asked her for forgiveness.
Yeah, I think it's more observing maturity and a full circle moment. It's possible to have a restorative moment between these two men versus system wide.
Honour to you both - I heard the many virtues of acknowledgement you gave to each other and they all landed and clearly have grown into strong trees that give back to the world. This is a call to teaching virtues and values to parents and teachers, children and adolescents to create high trust envirnments and relationships of respect, care and peacefulness. I love the 5 strategies of the virtues project which daily inspire my interactions. Blessings and salutations!!
