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Restorative Practices International Ltd
ACN: 135 526 797
The Inaugural RPI Board took office on 23 February 2009 when RPI was officially constituted as a not-for profit company limited by guarantee. The Board will remain in place until the next AGM prior to 23 February 2010. The board have adopted a staggered approach to replacing board members in the hope of bringing in new faces and fresh ideas in whilst not losing organisational knowledge.
RPI Constitution
Board Profile
The inaugural board consists of 6 Australians, and 2 international members from the US and New Zealand. To get to this place, the interim board also consisted of Laurie Besant from NSW, Australia who stepped back to help develop the NSW Charter. As the organisation grows it is our hope to truly develop as an international board and to support the development of local and regional charters or associations.
Chair
 Leigh Garrett
Adelaide, South Australia
Leigh is a founding member and the current Chair of RPI. He is the CEO of the Centre for Restorative Justice in Adelaide, South Australia. After a background in corrective services, Leigh become passionately interested in restorative approaches to justice, establishing the Offender.
He has previously been a Ministerial appointee of the SA Correctional Services Advisory Council and is currently a member of several boards and committees.
Email: leigh.garrett@restorativepracticesinternational.org
Vice Chair
 Margaret ThorsborneQueensland, Australia
Marg is the current Vice Chair, a co-founder and founding member of RPI. Starting out as a biology teacher, Marg came to restorative justice through her work as a school counsellor. Now a published author in the field of RP in schools and workplaces, she works across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the USA. Like her colleague Peta Blood, her interests lie in organisational culture change and developing emotionally healthy workplaces. Marg is based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
Email: marg.thorsborne@restorativepracticesinternational.org
Treasurer
 Peta Blood
New South Wales, Australia
Peta is one of the co-founders of RPI, having teamed up with Marg Thorsborne to develop a professional member association after many years of seeing the need to support practice and practitioners.
Peta first came to restorative justice through her work with the New South Wales Police Service. Working at the serious end of practice with police, criminal and workplace matters, she became convinced that the focus needed to be at the preventive end of practice. As a result, Peta works almost exclusively with schools throughout Australia, Asia and the Pacific Region. She has a particular interest in cultural change and developing healthy workplace environments. Peta is based in Sydney, Australia.
Email: peta.blood@restorativepracticesinternational.org
Secretary
Leigh Garrett is the interim Secretary
Leigh is a founding member and the current Chair RPI. For the interim he is acting as Secretary of RPI until this position is otherwise filled.
Email: secretary@restorativepracticesinternational.org
Board Members:
John Lennox
Tasmania, Australia
John is a founding committee member and a former Police Officer. He is based in Tasmania, Australia and is presently a consultant in restorative practices. He is an experienced board member.
Email: john.lennox@restorativepracticesinternational.org
Margaret Armstrong
Victoria, Australia
Marg Armstrong is based in Victoria, Australia. She is a former teacher with over 30 years experience in the classroom and a former consultant specialising in student wellbeing with the Victorian Department of Education and Training. For the past 8 years she has focused on the implementation of restorative practices in schools and now works as a private consultant.
She is a recipient of the Churchill Fellowship to study restorative justice programs/models in schools throughout the UK, USA, Canada and NZ. Marg is a founding committee member and Vice President of the Victorian Association for Restorative Justice (VARJ).
Email: marg.armstrong@restorativepracticesinternational.org
Philadelphia, USA
Vick
is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a co-founder of
The Silvan S. Tomkins Institute in 1991. As its first Training
Director, he was involved in one of the initial presentations of
restorative justice principles to an audience in the USA and the Mayor
of Philadelphia.
He is currently Co-chairman of the Board and
integral in the expansion of the organisation as The Tomkins Insitute:
Applied Studies in Motivation, Emotion and Cognition. His practice of
psychiatry has included work with children, individuals, couples and
families since 1975. We welcome Vick's experience and insight onto the
board.
Email: vick.kelly@restorativepracticesinternational.org
 Julia Hennessy
Wellington, New Zealand
Julia
has been a practicing social worker / and social work senior Manager in
the area of children and families for over twenty years. She has led
projects in the UK introducing Family Group Conference and Restorative
Justice practices into mainstream service delivery. Julia has spoken
and trained world-wide on these practices. She has contributed to
resources being published in these areas. Julia now lives in New Zealand and is the General Manager for one of the largest NGO social services providers.
Julia
currently is an Executive member on Restorative Justice Aotearoa (RJA)
which is the national association for practitioners of RJ in New
Zealand. She holds portfolio responsibility for post sentence and
family violence restorative justice.
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