(My experience is that
aboriginal justice circles are empowering, healing... it feels like there is movement in the process, rather than parties being locked into a fixed power structure.)
(a possible analogy would be if, in
an aboriginal justice circle, those who knew how the circle was conducted, said to newcomers, «you don't know how the circle operates!»
One's entire consciousness can participate in
an aboriginal justice circle, whereas western culture tends to be «talking heads.»