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Geese Theatre UK was formed in 1987 and is renowned across the criminal justice field. Members of the company devise and perform issue-based plays and conduct workshops and training in prisons, young offender institutions, probation centres and related settings. The company has worked in virtually every prison and each probation area in the UK and Ireland - and also works with youth offending teams. The Geese Theatre Handbook explains the thinking behind the company's approach to applied drama with offenders and people at risk of offending, including young people. It also contains over 100 exercises with explanations, instructions and suggestions to help practitioners develop their own style and approach. The materials can be readily adapted to other settings including conflict resolution, restorative justice and interpersonal skills training.

Purpose The therapeutic community (TC) is an environmental intervention where principles of working together democratically can enhance self-agency. While availability of inpatient TCs within the UK National Health Service (NHS) has declined, shorter or alternative interventions using core TC approaches have shown promise in enacting change. The purpose of this paper is to report and reflect on the development and running of a pilot nano-TC. Design/methodology/approach Foundations Group was a 2-h TC group intervention set up and run within the NHS for 18 months in 2021–2022, and taking place on City Farm premises. The group was convened as part of the complex emotional needs service in a mental health NHS Trust in the South West of England. Over the study period, the group comprised 11 members, one peer member and three staff members. Findings The authors reflected on the TC stance of working democratically with a fluid hierarchy, taking a non-expert approach, and using support and challenge to enhance self-agency and belongingness. The authors have detailed the structure of the group session including use of community meetings, psychoeducation, creative sessions and reviews. Members took on roles within the group including chairing sessions. Originality/value This group was a novel service within the NHS Trust where it was conducted and may represent a standalone therapeutic group. The authors hope it will show that core TC principles can be applied in shorter interventions than have previously been used.

As featured in The Guardian. A truly ground-breaking work.The Relationships Foundation exists to foster relational approaches to social, economic and other problems - including justice issues. Edited by two people closely involved with the work of the Foundation, Relational Justice has proved a highly successful adjunct to the main work of that organization - to the extent that there is now also a regular Relational Justice Bulletin (contact The Relationships Foundation, 3 Hooper Street, Cambridge CB1 2NZ; 01223 566333; e-mail r.f@clara.net). This influential book - with contributors ranging from the New Zealand judge Fred McElrea to Professor Tony Bottoms of the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology - presents a uniquely refreshing challenge and will appeal to people who prefer non-adversarial, non-conflict and non-argument-laden solutions.

In the 21st century Scandinavias oldest capital, which celebrated its own millennium in 2000, is getting in on the short-break boom with low-cost flights. Oslo offers the rare capital-city plus ski- break combo with the ski lifts just 20 minutes by tram from the centre. The capital itself is just 20 minutes from the airport now served by direct flights from Edinburgh and Stansted on Norwegian (00 47 21 49 00 15; www.norwegian.no) from Manchester and Heathrow (0870 60 727 727; www.flysas.com) and from Heathrow on BA (0870 850 9850; www.ba.com). Take a trip to the Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskiphuset) (00 47 22 13 52 80; Nkr50/[pound]4) to see 1,200 year old preser ved long ships and learn the history and achievements of the Norsemen. Somewhere in the past millennium these changed from violent invasion to promoting world peace and human achievement with the Nobel prizes, a visitor centre dedicated to which is located down by the harbour (00 47 48 30 10 00; www.nobelpeacecen-ter.org; admission kr 80/[pound]6.40; open 10am-4pm Tuesday-Friday, until 6pm on Thursday and 11am-5pm at weekends). The Edvard Munch Museum (00 47 23 49 35 00; www.munch.museum.no; admission kr 65/[pound]5.20; open 10am-4pm Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5pm at weekends and is closed on Monday) was visited by thieves in August 2004 who took his most famous painting, The Scream, away with them. One of four versions Munch painted, it was recovered last August and has been briefly on display before being removed again, this time for restoration. The original is however located in the National Gallery (00 47 21 98 20 00; www.nasjonalmuseet.no; open 10am-6pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, until 8pm on Thursday and 10am-5pm at weekends; closed Monday. Admission free).

Austria is where modern downhill skiing began a century ago. One man to thank is Mathias Zdarsky, from Lilienfeld, a small ski area close to the Austrian capital, Vienna. He organised the first downhill ski race with fixed-heel rather than telemark-style skis in 1905. The other is Johannes Schneider, who began as the ski guide at the Hotel Post in St Anton in 1907. He created the sliding turn with skis held parallel that is the basis of the technique still taught today. In St Anton, besides skiing some of the world's oldest downhill pistes, you can learn about skiing at the village museum. Lilienfeld's ski hill is too small and low by modern standards to offer more than a day's snow fun, assuming good conditions. But, if you do make the effort to visit the local Muckenkogel mountain, you'll be able to feel the history beneath your skis as Zdarsky made the world's first alpine turns on the slopes 100 years ago. In 1906, a special ski train ran from Vienna and was used by the first of the 20,000 skiers Zdarsky taught to ski. It is still possible to make the trip by rail. The Inferno Race is believed to be the oldest surviving ski race in the world. Sir Arnold Lunn, a British pioneer of ski tourism and international ski competition, had staged the first modern slalom race in Morren in 1921. Seven years later, he organised the first Inferno Race. In his book The Kandahar Story, he writes: \"The Inferno remains today the only important Alpine race which is a real test of Alpine skiing, for though there is usually a piste down to Morren, the rest of the race to Lauterbrunnen is almost always run on natural snow.\"

New ice rinks are all the rage, especially across the Atlantic. Last year the rapidly expanding Sun Peaks resort in British Columbia built one; this year Northstar (00 1 530 562 1010; www.northstarattahoe.com) by Lake Tahoe in California opens its new resort, Village, centred on a year-round ice rink. The rink will be open day and evening with ice skating free of charge (although there is a charge to rent skates). Variations on the ice theme are appearing all the time, just in case skating round and round on a rink is too goldfish-like an activity. In Tignes (0033 479 40 04 40; www.tignes.net) this winter the French resort will create a circuit 500m long and five metres wide on the west of the lake so that skaters can tour the lake, rather than being limited to a regular rink. The circuit will be open 2pm-8pm daily.

Leroys was awarded the Clef dOr (Golden Key) by Gault Millau while working at the Chateau de la Messardiere in St Tropez. He has established both cheese and wine cellars at the Dromonts. Celebrity guests and long-term friends may be invited to dine in the kitchens where Monsieur [Christophe Leroy] maintains his own table. So thats two targets to aim for. Le 3842 restaurant is at the top of lAiguille du Midi, starting point for those doing the 24km Valle Blanche off-piste descent. You may have worked out by now that this eatery is named after its altitude in metres. There are incredible views of Mont Blanc. On a clear day it is possible to see the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and the Grand Combin. However, those prone to altitude sickness had better not eat the tasty tartiflette, one of the regional gourmet specialities on the menu; the recipe calls for lots of cheese, cream and bacon.

From having no ski areas in 2000, the Chinese capital had 13 resorts at the last count and opened a stylish indoor snow centre this summer to provide year-round snow. The sleek 10-storey Qiaobo Snow World has been built by Beijing's Tsinghua University to a futuristic design. If you don't have time to try them all, Nanshan is favoured by those who complain that Beijing's other ski slopes are too short. It has one of China's first half pipes and two chairlifts. Snow World is the nearest to downtown Beijing and has runs ending before the Emperor Chongzhen who awaits eternity in a tomb set amid groves of ancient cypresses. Banff (001 403 762 8421; www.BanffLakeLouise.com) offers three ski areas, independently owned, so there's healthy competition. Mount Norquay is the nearest to town and offers flexible skiing by the hour if you just need a quick fix. For a full day there's much more terrain at Sunshine and Lake Louise, one of the world's most beautiful ski areas.