Restorative Justice Peace Circle Training 

Join us for this powerful 2-day training event focused on developing more Resorative Peace Circle Facilitators in our community. Kate Lassiter, Ph.D. (see Bio below) willl be leading this training of facilitators. The training includes all materials, certificate of completion, and lunch. Training is from 8:30am-4:30pm both days. Attendance capacity is 22 people. Cost is $240 per person. 

NOTE: Due to the restricted size of the group, which is best practice for the experential nature of this training, attendance is limited to TTN Members only.  You can be an individual professional member or a staff person at a TTN Member agency, but must be a member.  If you'd like to pursue memebrship in order to attend this training, you will find the 2018 Membership link on our "Members" page: www.tristatetraumanetwork.org/members.    

*CEUs are being applied for with the OH CSWMFT (Counseling, Social Work, and MFT) Board. Due to the length of time this process takes, we may not have an approval until a couple of weeks before the training, but will keep this site updated with that information as is comes in. The Tristate Trauma Network is a Category 1 provider in the state of IN, thus that type of continuing educaiton credit has already been approved. 

Description of Training: What does it take to build a life where you and the people you care about can grow, heal and thrive? Kids and adults who have experienced violence, addiction, poverty, and incarceration have trauma and toxic stress that show up in their homes, schools, workplaces, and organizations. We have spent time and money investing in strategies that do not alleviate trauma or lead to long-term behavior changes. Families are left broken, and there is no strategy in place to bring healing and support. This leaves people on their own to manage trauma and violence.

Restorative justice circles—also called peace circles—are a powerful tool to alleviate trauma, address behavior, and build social and emotional intelligence. Circles strengthen community by repairing trauma and violence. Circles are culturally competent tools to increase health and safety and create belonging. In Circle, we hold people accountable, work through trauma and violence, and build relationships of mutual trust and understanding. We address harms, needs, and causes of underlying stressors. Circles are tools that apply to non-profit organizations, mental health organizations, re-entry organizations, faith communities, schools, and courts. Circles interrupt self-defeating patterns of shame and empower individuals to create new patterns of relating. Circles build community, help create an environment where participants gain understanding and trust, and produce concrete actions.
In this two day training, you will learn about the new frontier of restorative justice and restorative practices, practice the mechanics of leading restorative circles, and develop a personal style and ease in doing so. 

 Objectives: By completion of the training, you will 1) Be skilled in the mechanics of leading circles. 2) Develop a strategy to implement and lead transformative circles. 3) Know your strengths and needs to becoming a powerful and peaceful circle keeper. 4) Know how the circle process works and when it doesn’t. 5) Develop professionally and personally as you lean into keeping circle. 4) Be part of a community where we grow and learn together 

Agenda
Day 1 Welcome and Introduction to Restorative Justice, Restorative Practices, and Circle * Opening Circle * Bucket of Worries * Introducing Circle * Developing Circle Guidelines and Values* Lunch Break * Revealing How You Learned to Operate and Learning How to Play * Homework and Closing Circle
Day 2 Opening Circle * Accountability and Behavior * Break * Two Kinds of Intelligence * Lunch * Getting to the Heart of the Matter * Break * Practicing Facilitating * Implementation Strategies * Closing Circle

Kate Lassiter, Ph.D.
Dr. Kate Lassiter is Assistant Professor of Religious and Pastoral Studies at Mount St. Joseph University. For nearly 20 years, she has worked with community leaders to develop their emotional intelligence and spiritual wisdom, and to create social change to impact our neighbors who hurt. She researches and teaches on how caring relationships heal and how to create powerful, inclusive structures of belonging. She is the author of Recognizing Other Subjects, a book that describes how we become healthy selves. Dr. Lassiter holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University (2012) where her primary area of study was Religion, Psychology, and Culture, with minors in Community Research and Action, and Theology and Practice; an M.A. in Theological Studies from University of Dayton (2004); and a B.A. in Theology from DeSales University (2001). She is a member of the American Academy of Religion and American Psychological Association-Division 27. She serves as a mentor with the HELP Program, serving formerly incarcerated women and men.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING REGISTRATION GUIDELINES THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE USUAL TTN TRAINING REGISTRATION GUIDELINES:

***Registration is on a FIRST COME, FIRST PAID basis and will close when the capacity of 22 people is reached or on January 4, 2018.  PAYMENT MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE OF THIS TRAINING.  Due to the restricted number for this opportunity, your spot is not secure until payment has been made. Thank you for your adherence to these special guidelines for this training opportunity.      

 

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