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Restorative justice as practice, inquiry, and a way of being
Restorative justice as practice, inquiry, and a way of being
For more than a decade, I have been privileged to develop and convene courses, trainings, retreats, and learning experiences for restorative justice practitioners, educators, organizational leaders, community members, and justice-system partners. These trainings often have featured colleagues in the field, or a series of them. At times I too have sat on faculty.
Attendance at these offerings to date is in the thousands cumulatively, reaching almost every continent and featuring a diverse range of identities and experiences represented in each course or session.
My teaching brings practical restorative process into conversation with trauma responsiveness, presence and coherence, power and difference, relational dynamics, human needs, organizational culture, and the inner capacities we bring to restorative work.
Ultimately, I teach what I need to learn, and every person I encounter offers that opportunity to be both teacher and student.
Selected Courses & Programs - A Sample of Courses & Dialogues from 2017-2024
Selected Courses & Programs - A Sample of Courses & Dialogues from 2017-2024
FOUNDATIONS & FACILITATION ▾
Restorative Justice Foundations with Eric Butler & Team · Restorative Justice Facilitation · Essential Qualities & Practices for the Restorative Justice Facilitator & Advocate · Introduction to Restorative Justice
COMMUNITY CONFERENCING & PROCESS ▾
The Case for Restorative Community Group Conferencing · Community-Held Restorative Justice · Don't Skip the Pre-Work · Building a Community-Held Restorative Justice Program
TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE PRACTICE ▾
Trauma-Responsive Restorative Justice · Trauma-Responsive RJ: The Human Needs MAP in Practice · Becoming a Trauma-Informed Restorative Educator · Trauma-Responsive Restorative Communication
CIRCLES, BELONGING & RELATIONSHIP ▾
Doing Circles to Build Belonging · Doing Circles Online · Community-Building Circles · Impact Circles · Values Processes
PRESENCE, COHERENCE & PRACTITIONER FORMATION ▾
Heart-Brain Coherence & Restorative Practice · Holding Space: Immersion + Retreat · Recharge Retreat · Facilitator Retreat · The Restorative Self · Systemic Constellations
ORGANIZATIONS & SYSTEMS ▾
Implementing Restorative Practices & Humanized Systems in the Workplace · Designing Restorative Conflict Protocol · Restorative Nonprofits: From Colonized to Collaborative · Co-Creating Restorative Policy · Workplace Restorative Justice
JUSTICE, COMMUNITY & MOVEMENT ▾
RJ Within Criminal Justice Systems · Restorative Justice & Family Law · Becoming a Fully Restorative School · Youth-Centered, Community-Held Restorative Justice · Doing US Justice · RJ and the First Harm · Looking Back to Move Forward
REFLECTIVE & RELATIONAL PRACTICES ▾
Reflective Listening & Restorative Justice Practices · Nonviolent Communication (NVC) for Restorative Practice · Values & Self-Reflection · Restorative Communication · Practitioner Self-Awareness & Relational Tool
Learning in Relationship
Learning in Relationship
Over the years, I have had the privilege of teaching, learning, convening, and collaborating with practitioners, scholars, culture-bearers, and community leaders across the restorative justice field.
Kay Pranis · Fania Davis · Edward C. Valandra · Eric Butler · Dominic Barter · Mark Umbreit · Marg Thorsborne · Deborah Heifetz · James O'Dea · Belvie Rooks · Tema Okun · Anita Wadhwa · DeMointe Wesley · and many others
From Practice to Scholarship
From Practice to Scholarship
This long-standing teaching and practice inquiry now informs my graduate research at Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, including emerging work on trauma-responsive practice, power and difference, pre-process inquiry, relational presence, and restorative process design.
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Selected offerings are shown here. A fuller archive of courses, retreats, trainings, public dialogues, and collaborative learning programs developed through Restorative Justice on The Rise is currently being reconstructed.
The photo carousel below gives a concrete visual to the scope of work I've been privileged to produce and host, teach, and co-teach.
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