CJI can arrange these workshops at your school, agency/service, workplace, neighbourhood or church, in order to help you imagine a more just community.
Restorative Justice and Restorative Practice Workshops
Restorative Justice Training
All programs include a negotiated fee. Program timeframe, components and number of participants are flexible based upon the unique needs of the school requesting training.
- Developing a Restorative Justice Worldview, Part 1
- Living Out a Restorative Justice Worldview, Part 2
- Restorative Practice in Schools: Using Circles in the Classroom
- Restorative Practice in Schools: Peer Mediation Program
- Restorative Practices in Workplaces
- De-escalating Conflict
- How to be ``Conflict Competent``
- Why No is Important, and How to Say It
- Transformative Mediation Training
This workshop will challenge you to think differently about how to crime, conflict and abuse. We will wrestle with the notions of justice and truth through lecture, discussion and looking closely at what our systems of justice are accomplishing and if the real needs of victims, offenders and communities are being met. Ultimately, we will emerge from the workshop with ideas of how we can use restorative justice to challenge our societal structures and individual experiences.
This workshop builds on the knowledge gained in “Developing a Restorative Justice Worldview” to enable participants to live out restorative values. We will dissect how justice is portrayed in popular media and discuss how individuals and communities can be influenced to support systems that fail to address real needs. We will also work through practical ways in which restorative practices can be applied to everyday circumstances in our schools, workplaces, families and communities so each of us can become active peacebuilders.
A circle is a process that brings together individuals who wish to engage in conflict resolution, healing, support, decision making or other activities in which honest communications, relationship development, and community building are core desired outcomes. In the classroom, Circles provide an additional tool for teachers to build connection with their student.
Circles can be used for: Establishing agreements on how the students will interact and engage with each other and the teacher during their time in class; Creating a sense of shared responsibility for maintaining agreements inside and outside of the classroom; Offering a way to address issues and have an open and honest discussion of these issues; Providing a way to address and deal with conflict.
This workshop focuses on practical skills to setup and host a circle, how to use different types of circles and concrete tools and techniques to support engagement from participants in the circle process. The workshop uses adult education and experiential learning techniques, as well as activities and discussion.
CJI can help your school set up a peer mediation program. The program can include: training of peer mediators and teacher mentors, CJI consulting in monitoring and program development; co-mediator assistance for peer mediators.
We can assist your workplace to better manage conflict, respond to harm, and proactively build strategies to create a restorative workplace culture.
The workshop focus is on the skills and practices associated with deescalating individuals and situations. Learnings include understanding your own styles and reactions to conflict, how to truly listen, build abilities to be curious, not right, develop conflict empathy, develop attention and respect, and understand brain science and conflict.
The workshop focus is skill development and understanding the dynamics of conflict, its source and identifying the skills that builds conflict competence in individuals and organizations. At the end, you will be understand how to understand your own reactions to conflict and how to assist others to work through conflict situations.
The workshop provides participants the capacities and skills to communicate unwelcome news without sacrificing the relationship.
This course explores a transformative model of mediation and offers practical mediation skills that support this approach. Transformative mediation helps cultivate positive changes in the way the parties view themselves, the other participant and their interaction. This approach is particularly effective when the parties feel either that the situation is hopeless or that the other party is unreasonable. The course utilizes a combination of presentations, interactive exercises, role plays, and discussions. Transformative Mediation Training is a credit towards the Certificate in Conflict Management and Mediation at Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo. For more information on the Certificate in Conflict Management and Mediation, see https://uwaterloo.ca/conflict-management/conflict-management-and-mediation.
We can also tailor our mediation training for your organization. We have experience training people in workplaces, schools, and neighbourhoods to be mediators who are effective at helping people find effective ways to manage conflict situations.
During our 40+ year history, we have continuously responded to community needs by creatively, and innovatively applying restorative justice principles to new problems. We believe the only limit to the power of restorative justice is the capacity of the human heart to change and grow.
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