The Foundation
The Restorative Center's mission is to develop a community-centered model of restorative justice that creates the structure and space for communities to discover and activate their ability to work together toward their own well-being.
The TRC program team drew upon their deep reservoir of real-world experiences to develop the curriculum weaving and expanding community circle teachings from around the world. Our methodology codifies a replicable, teachable, flexible structure for Restorative Justice work in communities and is the foundational training for advance work in Parole and Clemency, school circles and other conflict circles.
The well-facilitated circle realigns our power and voice, allowing for the expression of individual truths and the emergence of collective wisdom.
This training provides an experience-based understanding of the foundational components of TRC’s unique model for circle keeping. This training is a pre-requisite to advanced trainings in Restorative Justice Circles.
The training workshops are engaging, lively, and informative. Participants experience firsthand how circles realign power dynamics among and within us, how storytelling creates vulnerability and empathic listening, and how this model is a new paradigm for Restorative Justice.
We will learn the use of “prompts” at various phases of circle work, the energetic element of circle, and explore the necessity of self-care for circle keepers. The workshop will explore the skill and the art of circle keeping.
Southern University in partnership with The Restorative Center offers training for attorneys. The training will:
- develop a professional understanding of this model of Alternative Dispute Resolution;
- develop skills in communications and Circle facilitations;
- provide techniques of stress management and self-care;
- give attorneys consideration of the legal ethics invoked by the process.
Rates for attorneys, social workers, etc: $225.
Rates for SULC employees, SULC students, and community members $0.00.
Limited to 100 participants.
Approval pending for CLEs in Texas, California, New York, Alabama, and Florida.
CLE approval in the following:
- Louisiana 22 Hours of CLE including 2 Hours of professionalism
- Georgia 24 hours of CLE
- Mississippi 18 CLE hours including 2 hours of Ethics
- New York 22 Hours of CLE including 2 Hours of Professionalism
- Texas CLE Approval for 24 CLE Hours including 1 hour of Ethics
Approval pending Social Work CEU.