Julia Steiny, 401-421-6238, [email protected], YouthRestorationProject.org, residing in Rhode Island, writer and education consultant takes a concept that has evolved out of ancient techniques of council circles and currently called Youth Restoration. She is the director of the Youth Restoration Project in Rhode Island which teaches schools and parents to substitute the common practice of punishment with teaching kids how to engage in the life of the community and away from external control to internal self control.