ABSTRACT
The pilot to apply McCluskey's innovation ran over nine sessions of two-hour group meetings between May and October 2015. Given this and given the nature of busy professional lives, in discussion with colleagues, people devised the nine session programme to pilot the model and its potential application at work. The pilot course offered the participants a historical context with insight into the various contributors and ideologies which contributed to the formulation of this evolutionary approach to restorative practice. The formulation is built from the Bowlby notion of "the environment of evolutionary adaptedness". The order of the sessions was careseeking, caregiving, the system for self defence the system for interests and interest sharing, the system for affectionate sexual relations, the system for the internal environment. Finally, the system for personally creating an external environment which is supportive of the self. Careseeking is part of preprogrammed urge to signal to others to get what people need to survive.
