Restorative Practices Events
Upcoming Events, Trainings, and Circles
Upcoming Tier 1 Circle Practice Training Sessions
Wondering what Restorative Practices is all about? Come join us in the New Year to learn more!
During the Tier 1 Circle Practice Training, you will be introduced to the principles and general concepts of restorative practices and how they can be applied to community building. You'll get to experience a circle and also learn about your fellow participants.
Since there is a large amount of content to cover, each Circle Practice takes place over two, 5-hour sessions. We ask that you attend both training sessions.
Please register in advance. We look forward to you joining us!
Student Sessions
All of the student meetings are in-person. We will provide food.
Circle Practice Training: Group 1 (Students Only)
Monday, January 13 and Tuesday, January 14
11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location TBD
Circle Practice Training: Group 2 (Faculty and Staff Welcome/Combined Session)
Saturday, January 18 and Saturday, January 25
2 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Location TBD
Circle Practice Training: Group 3 (Students Only)
Friday, January 31 and Friday, February 7
2 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Location TBD
Faculty and Staff Sessions
Circle Practice Online Training (Faculty and Staff Only)
Friday, January 17 and Friday, January 24
9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Zoom
Circle Practice In-Person Training (Students Welcome/Combined Session)
Saturday, January 18 and Saturday, January 25
2 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Location TBD
Recent Past Events
An Evening with Fania E. Davis: Race, Restorative Justice, and Healing in a Time of Awakening, Repair, and Re-imagining
November 15, 2024
Join us for an important discussion with leading activist and author Dr. Fania E. Davis.
Fania E. Davis is a leading international voice on the intersection of racial and restorative justice. She is a long-time social justice activist, civil rights trial attorney, author, and educator with a PhD in Indigenous Knowledge. Davis came of age in Birmingham, Alabama during the social ferment of the civil rights era. These formative years, particularly the murder of two close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing, crystallized within Fania an enduring commitment to social transformation. For the next decades, she was active in the Civil Rights, Black liberation, women’s, prisoners’, peace, anti-racial violence, economic justice and anti-apartheid movements.
Apprenticing with African indigenous healers catalyzed Fania’s search for a healing justice, ultimately leading her to become the Founding Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Co-Founding Board Member of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice. Her numerous honors include the Lifetime Achievement award for excellence in Restorative Justice, the Black Feminist Shapeshifters and Waymakers’ award, the Tikkun (Repair the World) award, the Ella Jo Baker Human Rights award, and the Ebony POWER 100 award. The Los Angeles Times named her a New Civil Rights Leader of the 21st Century. She recently received the Open Society Foundations Justice Rising Award recognizing 16 Black movement leaders working towards racial justice in the United States. Among Davis’ publications is the Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Justice, and U.S. Social Transformation.
CIRCLE UP Screening and Talk Back with Janet Connors and Clarissa Thomas
October 27, 2024
After the brutal slaying of her teenage son, Janet Connors reaches out to her son’s killer to offer a chance for forgiveness. They team up with a group of mothers of murdered children to help young people in their community break the chain of violence and revenge. CIRCLE UP is a call to action for reframing approaches to crime and punishment through the lens of restorative justice, forgiveness, and accountability.