
Videos & Talks
Live Facilitation to Awaken the Offender Re-settlement Journey
Jane Ball
What does it take to genuinely re-enter society rather than cycle back through it? Jane Ball answers in the doing — a live facilitation of the Offender Resettlement Journey, bringing an offender face to face with their whole story.
Jane Ball is a dialogue practitioner and co-founder of the Academy of Professional Dialogue, whose work in criminal justice settings centres on the question of what it takes for someone to genuinely re-enter society rather than cycle back through it. The Offender Resettlement Journey is a facilitated process in which participants move through a structured re-enactment of their own legal and custodial experience, surfacing assumptions, emotions, and turning points that are rarely spoken aloud. Ball's approach draws on the conviction that dialogue can reach people at precisely the moments when institutions have given up on conversation. In this participative webinar, cohosts Nancy Dixon and Linda Ellinor interview Jane Ball about the design and practice of the resettlement process before participants reflect in small groups on what this work illuminates about dialogue in high-stakes and marginalised contexts.