Restorative Practices Events
Upcoming Events, Trainings, and Circles
Circle Training Retreat
April 10, 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. & April 11, 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. (2-Day Training)
This two-day retreat focuses on ways to use circle practices to build, nourish, and maintain healthy relationships. Participants will be introduced to the indigenous history of circle practice, fundamental principles of restorative practices, and learn how to design and facilitate circles that cultivate an environment of belonging and wellbeing for individuals, organizations, and within the Tufts community.
Conflict and Harm Repair Using Restorative Practices with Janet Connors
April 18, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. (1-Day Training)
This one-day intensive training will focus on various ways to respond to serious conflict and harm using restorative practices. Participants will learn how to use the restorative questions, circle practice, reentry support, and conferencing to transform conflicts and repair harm between individuals, groups, and organizations. This workshop will be co-led by Restorative Justice pioneer and practitioner Janet Connors.
Recent Past Events
- Freshmen Student Check-In Circle
- Graduate Student Check-In Circle
- Transfer Student Check-In Circle
- Circle Practice Retreat
- Student Organization Leadership Retreat
- Tier 1 Circle Practice Training Sessions: 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.
- An Evening with Fania E. Davis: Race, Restorative Justice, and Healing in a Time of Awakening, Repair, and Re-imagining: 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: 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.