Against the backdrop of COVID recovery, this workshop will examine how a focus on humanity, connection, belonging and trust will repair prison communities and extend to local communities. It will outline the Growth methodology, a new emerging theory that was derived from examining exceptional penal practice. This methodology focuses on co-producing sustainable solutions within the Criminal Justice System and is integrated with Lewis’s dynamic model of therapeutic correctional relationships, to magnify the meaning and strength of practice.
This workshop will present the Growth methodology and principles of Growth, outlining through digital work the ambitions for the future and the impact of this work so far. It will then focus heavily on the professional challenges the delegates are facing, providing collective support, and creating a space to learn from one another. It will not only focus on those who have offended but consider the people who experience carceral spaces (including staff, leaders, and families).
This workshop will share what is being done to drive a Growth revolution in the UK and the ambitions for the future, to make a global impact, with collective social value at the heart of this cultural change initiative.
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Dr. Sarah Lewis
Director, Penal Reform Solutions, England, United Kingdom
Dr Lewis is pioneering a Growth methodology across correctional and community work, in order to achieve meaningful cultural reform within the UK Criminal Justice System (and beyond). She specialises in therapeutic correctional relationships, dynamic security and cultural reform and is the Director of Penal Reform Solutions, a person-centred organisation, which employs people with professional and personal lived experience of the Criminal Justice System, to revolutionise the penal system. Dr Lewis's work focuses on building trust, hope and belonging, through her Growth methodology, which was derived from extensive research of exceptional penal practice in Norway.
