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17 U. St. Thomas L.J. 43 (2020-2022)
Forming Restorative Justice Practitioners: Learning to Make Meaning of Our Trauma Exposure Response

handle is hein.journals/usthomlj17 and id is 43 raw text is: ARTICLE FORMING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRACTITIONERS: LEARNING TO MAKE MEANING OF OUR TRAUMA EXPOSURE RESPONSE MARY J. NOVAK* Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.1 I. INTRODUCTION Law students and the lawyers they become are implementing restora- tive justice theories and practices today in unparalleled ways.2 The timing of the rise in restorative justice policies and programs in the United States3 parallels important movements in the law and legal education4 such that it is * Associate Director for Mission Integration and Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; M.A.P.S. 2012, Washington Theological Union; J.D. 1988, Santa Clara University; B.S. 1983, San Diego State University. I am deeply grateful for the careful and in- sightful research assistance of Andrea Muto, Georgetown University Law Center's Research Ser- vices Librarian. I am also extremely indebted to my former colleague, Dr. Justin Hopkins, with whom I collaborated to build the sessions for our clinical students on their trauma exposure re- sponses. Parts of this text appear elsewhere in my contributions to the forthcoming Routledge textbook by Dawn D'Amico, Trauma and Well-Being in the Legal Profession (2020). 1. VIKTOR E. FRANKL, MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING 121 (1984). 2. See, e.g., Thalia Gonzalez, The Legalization of Restorative Justice: A Fifty-State Empiri- cal Analysis, 19 UTAH L. REV. 1027 (2019). 3. Mark S. Umbreit, et al., Restorative Justice: An Empirically Grounded Movement Facing Many Opportunities and Pitfalls, 8 CARDOZO J. CONFLICT RESOL. 511, 519-24 (2007). 4. Among these important movements are Law as a Healing Profession (see, e.g., Susan Daicoff, Law as a Healing Profession: The Comprehensive Law Movement, 6 PEPP. DIsP. RESOL. L.J. 1 (2006)); Therapeutic Lawyering and Jurisprudence (see, e.g., Marjorie A. Silver, Love, Hate, and Other Emotional Interference in the Lawyer/Client Relationship, 6 CLINICAL L. REV. 256 (1999)); Lawyer Multiple Intelligences (see, e.g., Aderson Bellegarde Frangois, Making Out the Ghost Behind the Words: Approaching Legal Text with Psychological Intelligence, in THE AFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL: PRACTICING LAW AS A HEALING PROFESSION 109 (Marjorie 43

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