The Repair Circle: Healing Punishment Patterns
You might already know that punishment doesn't create the relationships children need. You've felt the disconnect - the isolation and distance punishment creates.
The intention of this space is to allow us space to unravel the patterning and feel the peace in a new way of relating with children.
Looking through the fresh lenses of restorative justice, healing-centered engagement, Indigenous wisdom, and somatics.
This gathering is different because we're dropping into the body to feel where punishment lives and practice the somatic shifts needed to repair.
What We'll Experience Together:
🕯️ Grounding
We'll begin by arriving in our bodies and creating space for this work.
💭 Naming What We Carry
A gentle check-in around adultism and the beliefs we've inherited about children, power, and control.
🧠 Reframing Children as Whole
A brief teaching on brain development and honoring the natural unfolding (not fixing).
✨ The Practice: From Punitive to Restorative (the heart of our time)
Notice the punitive response (thoughts, body sensations, words you said)
Learn the Regulate-Reflect-Repair framework
Feel what shifts in your body, thoughts, and words
🌊 Community Reflection
Harvest insights together - what shifted? what surprised you? what are you taking forward?
🌱 Repair Ritual
Leave with one simple, embodied practice you can use this week when connection breaks.
This Gathering is For You If:
✓ You parent, teach, care for, or work with children of any age
✓ You're tired of repeating the punitive patterns you experienced growing up
✓ You want somatic, body-based tools - not just concepts or scripts
✓ You believe repair is possible and relationship is the foundation
✓ You're ready to practice something different, even when it's difficult
What You'll Need:
Space you can be present for 60 minutes
Something to write with (journal, paper, device)
Willingness to feel and practice
About the Facilitator
Dahlia is the founder of Liberated Learning, a certified somatic movement healer, and creator of The Lighthouse Learning Model™. With 10 years in education and a Master's in Curriculum & Instruction focused on Community Engagement, Dahlia guides parents, educators, and healers in practicing trauma-informed, healing-centered approaches to learning and relationship. Her work integrates restorative justice, somatic experiencing, and Indigenous wisdom to support people in unlearning colonial patterns and practicing right relationship.
Learn more: www.liberatedlearning.org
Read her work: www.substack.com/@liberatedbody