Training For Restorative Justice Practitioners

CJI equips restorative justice practitioners and volunteer community members to create opportunities for healing and resolution through mediation, dialogue, and other restorative processes.

We offer Transformative Mediation, Facilitated Dialogue, De-Escalation Training, Stride Night, and Stride Circles Training.

Transformative Mediation Training

The major topics of this training include conflict management styles, empathetic listening, expressing oneself, principled bargaining, analysis of conflict, preparing people for mediation, transformative mediation, variations on the mediation process, and dealing with challenging situations.

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Format: 28 hours over 4 days

Cost: $675 per person

Facilitated Dialogue Training

Facilitated Dialogue is an approach used to engage  individuals or families, workplaces and community groups in dialogue about the impacts of sexual harm across circumstances. The training combines group learning, individual reflection, and interactive role-play.

Format: 28 hours over 4 days

Cost: $675 per person

De-Escalation Training

Conflict begins and ends with emotional regulation. While simple enough on paper, self regulation in the face of escalation and conflict is a cultivated skill and one that can unlock de-escalation for self and others. This experiential workshop invites participants to understand themselves in relationship to escalation and conflict, identify pain points and boundaries, orients folks to the life-cycle of escalation and its activators, and explores tools and tactics for intervention and de-escalation.

Format: Flexible

Cost: $175/hour

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Stride Night Training

This training is for community members who want to build connections with people in prison. Learn about the history of women’s federal prisons in Canada and experiences of people who are incarcerated. Explore power and privilege and how it impacts our identities and opportunities. Understand Stride’s values and your role as a Stride Night volunteer.

Format: 28 hours over 4 days

Cost: $200, $100 or what you can afford.

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Stride Circles Training

Conflict begins and ends with emotional regulation. While simple enough on paper, self regulation in the face of escalation and conflict is a cultivated skill and one that can unlock de-escalation for self and others. This experiential workshop invites participants to understand themselves in relationship to escalation and conflict, identify pain points and boundaries, orients folks to the life-cycle of escalation and its activators, and explores tools and tactics for intervention and de-escalation.

Format: 12-hour training on two Saturdays

Cost: $200, $100, or what you can afford

How training made a Difference

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