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Mark Finnis

@markfinnis.bsky.social

Humans First, Professionals Second 🎯 Author of β€˜Independent thinking on restorative practice’ Speaker, author and coach empowering schools and organisations to create highly connected relational cultures with people at the heart of everything they do

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You can connect with me over on that there @LinkedInUK Mark Finnis and L30 Relational Systems

@instagram mark_finnis_restorative
I’ll be posting 3 minute guides to key elements of restorative and relational based practice daily

04.05.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Belong isn’t delivered, it’s grown together.

29.04.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Belonging matters more than behaviour.

Connection matters more than correction.

Relationships matter most of all.

26.04.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œRelationships are the intervention.”
Everything else is just support.

21.04.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of people think their inner critic is a hardwired part of their personality.

It is in fact deletable software that’s been put there by messages in the early part of our lives.

#PersonalDevelopment

06.04.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Eid Mubarak.

This weekend brings the joyful celebration of Eid for many of our colleagues, friends, and comunities.

Wishing everyone celebrating a peaceful weekend , filled with love, connection snd togetherness.

30.03.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m buzzing to be heading to Lancashire to deliver the closing keynote at the secondary heads conference.

21.03.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ve had such an amazing day working with over 100 colleagues from Children Services here in Worcestershire Children Services.

Lots of laughs, refections and inspiration as we explored relational based practice.

Humans first, professionals second.

#OnlyConnect

18.03.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm really looking forward to this MASSIVE event in Leeds in April. I'll be talking about #Botheredness as a vehicle of positive disruption!
All the details here: www.thenextdecade.co.uk
Hurry!
@vicgoddard.bsky.social @positiveregard.bsky.social @markfinnis.bsky.social @davewhitaker.bsky.social

03.03.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What an incredible privilege it is to be in Carlisle today ready to start an exciting piece of work alongside the leadership team over the next few months.

Together,we will explore the powerful role relationships can have in leadership & across services and how we work with children & families.

28.02.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🎯Be teachable.
🎯You don’t know everything.

27.02.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kindness is the new cool
Happiness is the new rich

27.02.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m excited to deliver a keynote at the heads and deputies leadership conference here at lake Windermere.

Putting the importance of purpose over process & focusing on what really counts rather what can be easily counted.

What do you measure and what do you treasure ?

27.02.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m excited to deliver a keynote at the heads and deputies leadership conference here at lake Windermere.

Putting the importance of purpose over process & focusing on what really counts rather what can be easily counted.

What do you measure and what do you treasure ?

27.02.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s a busy and exciting week for the team.

Two x two day courses in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

Trainings and keynotes in Staffordshire, the lakes and Cumberland.

Plus back to Grimsby for another two day course for NE Lincs.

It’s going to be epic 🎯

24.02.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today I travel to Valencia to work with an international school developing restorative and relational based practice. We love to work all around the world and please do get in touch to start a conversation.

20.02.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It still amazes me the amount of bulk orders that go out each week of my book three years after it came out.

Anouther 150 copies to one person today.

#RestorativePractice

19.02.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are super excited and proud to have been asked to work across the whole of Slough Children First developing restorative and relational based practice πŸ’™

#L30 #RelationalPractice #Relational

19.02.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having a rare midweek day at home has caused some reflections ❀️

🎯Rest shouldn’t be seen as a reward
🎯We only learn to care by being cared for
🎯Busyness shouldn’t be worn like a badge of honour
🎯Be careful work doesn’t get your best and home gets the rest

18.02.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Correcting is different from correction

13.02.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve had a brilliant time working alongside tribunal colleagues in Surrey.
We explored…
🎯 Connect before content
🎯The power of doing things WITH people
🎯What you don’t repair will be repeated
🎯It takes two sides to build a bridge

12.02.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An exciting week ahead for the team.
Trainings across Children Services in Grimsby, Rutland, N Somerset, Bournemouth, Christchurch &Poole, Hampshire, Portsmouth, Devon and Surrey.

Influencing practice one relationship at a time.

#HumansFirstProfessionalsSecond

10.02.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Be careful your purpose doesn’t get lost in process.

Human first professionals second.

L30 Relational Systems

22.01.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's my Friday Follow for Education #FFED ... Brilliant educators who've joined @bsky.app this week. Essential follows, changing the narrative of education.

@jamesaidoo.bsky.social @kminquiry.bsky.social @markfinnis.bsky.social @amiefabry.bsky.social @samiravance.bsky.social

#onlyconnect

06.12.2024 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks πŸ™Œ

21.01.2025 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

H ave faith
O pt for growth
P ursue dreams
E expect great things

21.01.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve had an amazing 3 days this week working with colleagues from across the whole school community at Highgate wood High School in London.
Building vision and plans, developing excellent practice with relationship & belonging at the heart of all.

Building restorative skills to repair ❀️

16.01.2025 08:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Team L30 have a great week ahead with trainings in London, York, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Barnsley, Northampton, Tameside and planning work with Wigan and Birmingham.

Let’s go πŸš€

Changing the system and practice one relationship at a time.

13.01.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m super excited to be spending three days in schools this week in London.

Building relational culture by design and not default.

#RestorativePractice

13.01.2025 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s a busy first week back for team L30.

We have 13 separate trainings going on this week alone.

Back with a bang and we always appreciate colleagues trusting us with inset and training days.

06.01.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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