Reframing Crime and Justice training is designed for people working towards fairer and better justice outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand. This training combines content usually covered in our Narratives for Change Foundations training with specific crime and justice content. It draws on tested narratives and strategies from our ‘How to talk about Crime and Justice’ guide.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This training is for people working for change in the public service and criminal justice system.

COST:
This training is supported by JustSpeak and is at a reduced cost of $450 per participants thanks to funding from the Borrin Foundation.

FORMAT:
Delivered over five weeks as a combination of online content and live facilitated sessions, Reframing Crime and Justice training allows participants to move through the online modules for each week at times that suit them. The course includes information to read and watch, forums, individual and small group activities. Live virtual sessions hosted on zoom create opportunities for interaction and collaboration with The Workshop trainers and others on the course.

We recommend you spend 3–4 hours a week:
- working through the course content
- doing the activities
- connecting with your group.

You will also need to allow 1.5 hours each week for your live zoom session with your trainer and others on the course.

COURSE TIMES AND DATES
The course runs from Thursday 20 April until Friday 26 May 2023

Live sessions run on:
Thursday 20 April, 10.30am - 11.30am (pre-course introductory session)
Thursday 27 April, 10.30am - 12.00pm
Thursday 4 May, 10.30am - 12.00pm
Thursday 11 May, 10.30am - 12.00pm
Thursday 18 May, 10.30am - 12.00pm
Thursday 25 May, 10.30am - 12.00pm

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
In this course, you’ll learn how to use your expertise and experience to put together communication in a way that:
* improves people’s understanding, based on best evidence, of why we need a shift in crime and justice policy away from reactive punishment and incarceration and towards prevention, rehabilitation and restoration;
* allows better conversations with the public;
* motivates people to act in support of these justice reforms

You will explore how to use consistent, helpful narratives that can gradually deepen people’s understanding and influence shared mindsets. We will give you Narrative for Change tools to help you communicate convincingly about big change work in the issues of crime and justice.

BY THE END OF THIS COURSE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
* describe Narratives for Change and explain why, when, and how to use it
* understand the importance of a narrative strategy to shift mindsets
* begin to identify the dominant, unhelpful narratives in crime and justice
* begin to recognise, name, and describe the helpful narratives to amplify in your area
* understand the importance of audience and messengers
* create a vision of a future where your changes have been implemented
* understand the importance of values shown to connect people to justice reform
* start to create better explanations about the origin of the problems and solutions