This came to me via Brad Acker. It sounds like it's worth a shot.
Originally shared by Chris Haynes
Conflict resolution without violence
In a particular African tribe, when someone commits a crime or does something hurtful and wrong, they take that person to the center of town, and the entire tribe surrounds him. For two days they’ll tell the man every good thing he has ever done. The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world with purity and with good, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, and happiness. But sometimes, in the pursuit of those things, people make mistakes. The community sees misdeeds as a cry for help. The small tribe bands together for the sake of their fellow man, to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he’d temporarily been disconnected: “I AM GOOD.” The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment, but it is the love and memory of his true identity.
From Organic Mechanic (a Facebook page)
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