Community Building and Prevention
These workshops are specifically designed to reduce shaming and blaming in order to open space for developing shared language and trust for addressing issues of identity in a shared space. People in a department or on a team take time to develop shared values and agreements, and talk about their shared goals and vision, as well as pressing issues like communication styles. Ideally, people get to know each other in a deeper way, practice deep and empathic listening, build trust, and think together about what kind of community they seek to be.
Conflict Transformation
Conflict has deeply affected the members of our community and challenged the social fabric and institutions of our society that are struggling to respond to this call for change. Restorative Justice offers an alternative view to conflict that values individuals and enables an opportunity to build a collective and comprehensive understanding of the harms that have been caused and perpetuated, as well as the resulting needs and shared responsibilities for repair. Participants will be invited to consider new ways of responding to conflict with a recognition of power dynamics, and the risks associated with speaking up and engaging in conflict with the goal of positive change. We will also discuss how people in positions of power or have particular influence hold a special responsibility for engaging conflict with courage, openness and a growth mindset.
Racial Healing
During this workshop, you will learn how to respond to interpersonal racial harms in ways that validate the experiences of those who are experiencing harm, provide needed support and care, and create opportunities for those who harm to let go of defensiveness, take accountability for their impacts, and commit to learning and change. Participants will explore how to identify your own biases, so that you become more aware of how your words and actions may affect others unintentionally, and how to work through the healing of the unintentional harm with sincere and empathetic intention. The workshop will also suggest strategies for recognizing and addressing broader structural and cultural manifestations of racial oppression and harm that flow through our language and everyday interactions, and pathways to deeper levels of transformation.
Microaggressions and Implicit Bias
After checking in and developing shared values agreements for difficult conversations, participants encounter the definitions of micro- aggressions, watch a film that demonstrates their impacts on people, and then pair up to share stories of experiencing and committing micro- aggressions. The goal of this workshop is to build on participants' lived experiences of micro-aggressions to develop collective wisdom around harm in their community and pro-active approaches for addressing micro-aggressions before, during and after an incident. Participants will also explore definitions of implicit bias and take time to reflect on their own and discuss biases they have faced as well.
RJ Trainings
RJ and Practice 101
Whether you are new to RJ or have experienced it in the past, this workshop explores its origins and equips you with the tools and resources you need to implement RJ in your own life after developing shared values and agreements. This interactive training helps you to define RJ, learn about the circle process, compare RJ to punitive justice, develop the language of RJ, and explore the needs of yourself and others. Learn why community building is so important to the foundation of RJ and how to approach difficult situations with an open mind.
Advanced Restorative Justice
