Dominic Barter
Founder, Practitioner (Master facilitators & practitioners)
Why they matter for gatherings
Dominic Barter is a founder and practitioner specializing in master facilitators and practitioners. He works with restorative circles and dialogues to address conflict and build community.
His methods provide structured approaches for inclusive dialogue and conflict resolution, useful for creating safe and productive gathering spaces. The established nature of his work offers a reliable framework for facilitators.
He is known for developing and applying restorative circles, including restorative justice and dialogue circles, within restorative practices.
Here is how those methods work in practice.
The methods, ready to run
Named methods, and the exercises in our library that put them to work.
Restorative Circle / Peacemaking Circle
Restorative Dialogue Circles (community)
And here is where you can watch them run.
Where you can see them practiced
Gold-set agendas that visibly put these methods to work.
How gatherings across every category score
Authority profile
Six pillars, each scored 0 to 100 from published work and independent verification. A research signal, not an endorsement.
Evidence and receipts
Sources
- https://labs.psychology.illinois.edu/~lyubansk/RCintro.htm
- https://openalex.org/A5084481177
- https://www.restorativecircles.org/
- https://www.cnvc.org/trainer/dominic-barter
- https://hrcircles.wordpress.org/about-restorative-circles/
- https://hrcircles.wordpress.com/about-restorative-circles/
- https://restorativecircles.org/about/
Grounded in: people_merged, console_people.
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