May 22, 2024
Session 1: 10:15am-11:45am
1-A: Practice Does Not Make Perfect...Practice Makes Practical (Pt. 1 of 2)
CamishaFatimah Gentry, Omesha Allen - CFGF Consulting
How do we integrate all of our experience, degrees and learning into our everyday practice? Most of us have been to amazing trainings, conferences and had the opportunity to witness change in many forms. Our world is in the state of "Great Grieving." Daily war coverage, covid and our "new normal" has made our day-to-day become a bit overwhelming. How can we shift more smoothly through this new paradigm? At CFGF Consulting, we believe "We all have Exactly what we need to get to where we want and need to be. To the extent we believe this, is what makes this true." Come share space with us and learn how to better integrate our many learnings into our everyday life. Through tool box renovation, practicing powerful vulnerability and courageous questioning... we will share information, stories and be in an advanced healing-style circle practice. Create new space for you to take for yourself and share with others. "Restoring self and Reminding Others"
1-A: Practice Does Not Make Perfect...Practice Makes Practical (Pt. 1 of 2)
CamishaFatimah Gentry, Omesha Allen - CFGF Consulting
How do we integrate all of our experience, degrees and learning into our everyday practice? Most of us have been to amazing trainings, conferences and had the opportunity to witness change in many forms. Our world is in the state of "Great Grieving." Daily war coverage, covid and our "new normal" has made our day-to-day become a bit overwhelming. How can we shift more smoothly through this new paradigm? At CFGF Consulting, we believe "We all have Exactly what we need to get to where we want and need to be. To the extent we believe this, is what makes this true." Come share space with us and learn how to better integrate our many learnings into our everyday life. Through tool box renovation, practicing powerful vulnerability and courageous questioning... we will share information, stories and be in an advanced healing-style circle practice. Create new space for you to take for yourself and share with others. "Restoring self and Reminding Others"
1-B: Building Police, Practitioner and Community Wellness: Unforeseen Challenges
Mindy Johnston, Theresa Huggins, Hank Hays, Marlon Marion, Morgan Moore - Portland Community Justice Partnership with Lutheran Community Services NW
We will share our journey in the development of pre-arrest restorative justice practices partnership in Portland between the Transformative Justice & Healing Program at Lutheran Community Services Northwest and the Portland Police Bureau. We will discuss successes and challenges, including our original goals, the small wins, staff challenges, lack of police buy-in, community trauma and more.
Mindy Johnston, Theresa Huggins, Hank Hays, Marlon Marion, Morgan Moore - Portland Community Justice Partnership with Lutheran Community Services NW
We will share our journey in the development of pre-arrest restorative justice practices partnership in Portland between the Transformative Justice & Healing Program at Lutheran Community Services Northwest and the Portland Police Bureau. We will discuss successes and challenges, including our original goals, the small wins, staff challenges, lack of police buy-in, community trauma and more.
1-C: Restorative Justice in Schools: What is Accountability?
Nicholas Bradford - National Center for Restorative Justice
Join us for a brief discussion about the foundations of RJ and a deep dive into accountability, its role in restorative systems, and a system that helps tackle some of our most common challenges in the classroom or school.
Nicholas Bradford - National Center for Restorative Justice
Join us for a brief discussion about the foundations of RJ and a deep dive into accountability, its role in restorative systems, and a system that helps tackle some of our most common challenges in the classroom or school.
1-D: Exploring the Intersection of Restorative Justice and Collaborative Governance
Manuel Padilla, Matthew Hartman - Oregon Solutions, Just Outcomes Consulting
Join this interactive session where presenters and participants will collectively explore and assess the potential intersections of restorative justice (RJ) and collaborative governance (CG). The discipline of collaborative governance includes the processes, norms, practices, and structures of public policy decision making, problem solving, and management. In practice, collaborative governance engages people constructively across the boundaries of public agencies, explicitly inclusive of public, private, civic and other spheres, in order to produce a public benefit that could not otherwise be accomplished by any single sphere or sector. Through these structures and practices, collaborative governance seeks to expand a community’s democratic capacity through new skills, relationships and systems. After a short introduction to collaborative governance norms, dynamics, and qualities, participants will engage around questions that seek to tease out the ways in which RJ and CG share common interests and values and can offer each other orientations, approaches, and tools to add value to their respective fields and work.
Manuel Padilla, Matthew Hartman - Oregon Solutions, Just Outcomes Consulting
Join this interactive session where presenters and participants will collectively explore and assess the potential intersections of restorative justice (RJ) and collaborative governance (CG). The discipline of collaborative governance includes the processes, norms, practices, and structures of public policy decision making, problem solving, and management. In practice, collaborative governance engages people constructively across the boundaries of public agencies, explicitly inclusive of public, private, civic and other spheres, in order to produce a public benefit that could not otherwise be accomplished by any single sphere or sector. Through these structures and practices, collaborative governance seeks to expand a community’s democratic capacity through new skills, relationships and systems. After a short introduction to collaborative governance norms, dynamics, and qualities, participants will engage around questions that seek to tease out the ways in which RJ and CG share common interests and values and can offer each other orientations, approaches, and tools to add value to their respective fields and work.
Session 2: 12:45pm-2:15pm
2-A: The Best Defense is a Strong Offense: Upstream RJ for College Men
Arian Mobasser – University of Oregon
RJ provides us a powerful framework through which to respond to harm, but what about prevention? How can we better integrate RJ with contemporary science of development to better prevent harm from occurring in the first place? Developmental psychologist, Arian Mobasser, shares a case study from his work at the University of Oregon’s Men’s Resource Center (MRC).
2-B: Self-Awareness: An Essential for Restorative Practitioners
Rhea DuMont, KeriAnn Rumrey, Jane Backen - Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Multnomah County Juvenile Services
In order to support healing and restoration, the RJ practitioner must actively engage in self-awareness practices. In this interactive session, facilitators will guide participants through an exploratory practice to be present with what is. Participants will examine how applying restorative values to the self are critical for the practitioner to create more equitable spaces and processes that minimize additional harm and trauma and cultivate healing and connection.
2-C: Meeting in the Middle: Engaging Middle School Students and their Teachers in Building a Supportive and Restorative Community
Darren Reiley, John Inglish - Center for Dialogue and Resolution, University of Oregon
We provide findings from a small-scale feasibility test of the SpeakOut with Advocatr program which supports student and teacher wellness in the classroom. It consists of (a) an emphasis on student voice, (b) a social-emotional learning curriculum focused on trust, communication, advocacy, accountability, and conflict engagement, and (c) professional development in community building and restorative responses to student concerns. Findings include school staffs' enthusiastic support for the program components, and challenges with improving students' self-reported school engagement. The session will focus on activities from the student curriculum designed to support students' and teachers' wellness.
2-D: Cellblocks to Mountaintops: Personal Transformation as a Form of Justice
Katie Hardiman - Narrative Alchemy
Cellblocks to Mountaintops is a podcast and video series examining the punitive criminal justice system, the systemic factors that plague it and the potential of restorative justice. Through the power of artistic expression and human connections, Sterling Cunio forges a remarkable personal transformation while serving decades in prison. This presentation will share clips from the show and discussions about Sterling's story and how it relates to the greater restorative justice movement.
2-A: The Best Defense is a Strong Offense: Upstream RJ for College Men
Arian Mobasser – University of Oregon
RJ provides us a powerful framework through which to respond to harm, but what about prevention? How can we better integrate RJ with contemporary science of development to better prevent harm from occurring in the first place? Developmental psychologist, Arian Mobasser, shares a case study from his work at the University of Oregon’s Men’s Resource Center (MRC).
2-B: Self-Awareness: An Essential for Restorative Practitioners
Rhea DuMont, KeriAnn Rumrey, Jane Backen - Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Multnomah County Juvenile Services
In order to support healing and restoration, the RJ practitioner must actively engage in self-awareness practices. In this interactive session, facilitators will guide participants through an exploratory practice to be present with what is. Participants will examine how applying restorative values to the self are critical for the practitioner to create more equitable spaces and processes that minimize additional harm and trauma and cultivate healing and connection.
2-C: Meeting in the Middle: Engaging Middle School Students and their Teachers in Building a Supportive and Restorative Community
Darren Reiley, John Inglish - Center for Dialogue and Resolution, University of Oregon
We provide findings from a small-scale feasibility test of the SpeakOut with Advocatr program which supports student and teacher wellness in the classroom. It consists of (a) an emphasis on student voice, (b) a social-emotional learning curriculum focused on trust, communication, advocacy, accountability, and conflict engagement, and (c) professional development in community building and restorative responses to student concerns. Findings include school staffs' enthusiastic support for the program components, and challenges with improving students' self-reported school engagement. The session will focus on activities from the student curriculum designed to support students' and teachers' wellness.
2-D: Cellblocks to Mountaintops: Personal Transformation as a Form of Justice
Katie Hardiman - Narrative Alchemy
Cellblocks to Mountaintops is a podcast and video series examining the punitive criminal justice system, the systemic factors that plague it and the potential of restorative justice. Through the power of artistic expression and human connections, Sterling Cunio forges a remarkable personal transformation while serving decades in prison. This presentation will share clips from the show and discussions about Sterling's story and how it relates to the greater restorative justice movement.
Session 3: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
3-A: Restorative Community Conference: What Makes a Great facilitator
Stephen Fowler, Brandon Brown, Shaylie Pickrell - Restorative Roots Project
In this interactive workshop, Restorative Roots Project will be updating you on their organizational developments of the past year giving you a true inside perspective on creating a sustainable Restorative Justice Org. We will also go over the nuts and bolts of a Restorative Community Conference (RCC) and what it takes to be a great facilitator. Ending with a modeled mock RCC, turning the participants into facilitators.
3-B: Rooted in Relationship - Public Defense and Restorative Justice
Tristen Edwards - Metropolitan Public Defender
This presentation will examine the intersection of public defense and restorative justice, focusing on mission alignment and on the fertile ground for partnership between the criminal justice reform and restorative justice movements. Tristen Edwards is the Lead Attorney for Restorative Justice at Metropolitan Public Defender. She will reflect on the value of advocating for restorative justice as a public defense attorney and will examine the ways the criminal legal system fails to achieve its purported goals. She will then explore the ways restorative justice practitioners and criminal defense attorneys can partner to move our society away from punitive responses and towards more restorative approaches to harm.
3-C: Sensitive Somatics
Sophia Solano - Conflict Artistry, LLC
Sensitive Somatics is a body-based workshop that engages active listening, restorative response, and mindful movement. Our breath and heart will guide this experiential laboratory for sensing into greater awareness of our physical realities.
3-D: Acknowledging Out Grief, Healing Each Other
Lori Eberly - LCSW Radius Executive Coaching and Development
Our work relies on our presence. With the threat of compassion-fatigue and vicarious trauma, it is imperative that we create practices and rituals to remain open and tender-hearted. Together, in this somatic grief circle, we'll acknowledge the losses we carry and the medicine we need to continue. Bearing witness to collective harm necessitates collective
healing.
3-A: Restorative Community Conference: What Makes a Great facilitator
Stephen Fowler, Brandon Brown, Shaylie Pickrell - Restorative Roots Project
In this interactive workshop, Restorative Roots Project will be updating you on their organizational developments of the past year giving you a true inside perspective on creating a sustainable Restorative Justice Org. We will also go over the nuts and bolts of a Restorative Community Conference (RCC) and what it takes to be a great facilitator. Ending with a modeled mock RCC, turning the participants into facilitators.
3-B: Rooted in Relationship - Public Defense and Restorative Justice
Tristen Edwards - Metropolitan Public Defender
This presentation will examine the intersection of public defense and restorative justice, focusing on mission alignment and on the fertile ground for partnership between the criminal justice reform and restorative justice movements. Tristen Edwards is the Lead Attorney for Restorative Justice at Metropolitan Public Defender. She will reflect on the value of advocating for restorative justice as a public defense attorney and will examine the ways the criminal legal system fails to achieve its purported goals. She will then explore the ways restorative justice practitioners and criminal defense attorneys can partner to move our society away from punitive responses and towards more restorative approaches to harm.
3-C: Sensitive Somatics
Sophia Solano - Conflict Artistry, LLC
Sensitive Somatics is a body-based workshop that engages active listening, restorative response, and mindful movement. Our breath and heart will guide this experiential laboratory for sensing into greater awareness of our physical realities.
3-D: Acknowledging Out Grief, Healing Each Other
Lori Eberly - LCSW Radius Executive Coaching and Development
Our work relies on our presence. With the threat of compassion-fatigue and vicarious trauma, it is imperative that we create practices and rituals to remain open and tender-hearted. Together, in this somatic grief circle, we'll acknowledge the losses we carry and the medicine we need to continue. Bearing witness to collective harm necessitates collective
healing.
May 23, 2024
Session 4: 10:15am-11:45am
4-A: Practice Does Not Make Perfect...Practice Makes Practical (Pt. 2 of 2)
CamishaFatimah Gentry, Omesha Allen - CFGF Consulting
How do we integrate all of our experience, degrees and learning into our everyday practice? Most of us have been to amazing trainings, conferences and had the opportunity to witness change in many forms. Our world is in the state of "Great Grieving." Daily war coverage, covid and our "new normal" has made our day-to-day become a bit overwhelming. How can we shift more smoothly through this new paradigm? At CFGF Consulting, we believe "We all have Exactly what we need to get to where we want and need to be. To the extent we believe this, is what makes this true." Come share space with us and learn how to better integrate our many learnings into our everyday life. Through tool box renovation, practicing powerful vulnerability and courageous questioning... we will share information, stories and be in an advanced healing-style circle practice. Create new space for you to take for yourself and share with others. "Restoring self and Reminding Others"
4-B: Restorative Start: RJ in Early Childhood
Benjamin Goldenhour – National Center for Restorative Justice
Through participatory activities and facilitated conversations, we will explore the nuances of utilizing Restorative Practices with the youngest members of our communities. This workshop offers practical strategies and effective language examined through a developmentally appropriate lens. What must be addressed that differentiates this crucial period of childhood? How can we foster a culture of agency and empathy in pre-operational stages? The tools and framework are familiar, but there is necessary adjustment in how we must present them when nurturing a culture of accountability and fellowship for early learners. With a focus on authentic modeling, simple communication, and play-based interaction, we can foster a strong foundation for restorative thinking that will encourage children to navigate conflict with care and confidence.
4-C: How Restorative Justice Healed a Small Community
Liberty Miller - Victim Support Services
Join me for a look inside my victim offender dialogue (VOD) with the man who murdered my brother: the many years it took to decide to do it, the anxiety leading up to it, and the fear on the day of the event. Two years after our VOD, the offender was released back into our small community; a community where memories are long and anger runs deep. Hear how forgiveness changed not only my and the offender’s life, but also played a part in healing a town.
4-D: Ecological Systems Theory and a Multi-Systemic Approach to Community Wholeness
Matthew King - University of Washington
Models of retributive justice inaccurately imagine harmful behavior as driven solely by individual choice. Russian-American psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory provides firm theoretical groundwork for understanding behavior and development in a more nuanced and accurate way. This session provides an overview of EST. Participants will learn a practical, multi-systemic approach to increase proliferation of community building behaviors while decreasing prevalence of community-harming behaviors, regardless of the context in which they work.
4-A: Practice Does Not Make Perfect...Practice Makes Practical (Pt. 2 of 2)
CamishaFatimah Gentry, Omesha Allen - CFGF Consulting
How do we integrate all of our experience, degrees and learning into our everyday practice? Most of us have been to amazing trainings, conferences and had the opportunity to witness change in many forms. Our world is in the state of "Great Grieving." Daily war coverage, covid and our "new normal" has made our day-to-day become a bit overwhelming. How can we shift more smoothly through this new paradigm? At CFGF Consulting, we believe "We all have Exactly what we need to get to where we want and need to be. To the extent we believe this, is what makes this true." Come share space with us and learn how to better integrate our many learnings into our everyday life. Through tool box renovation, practicing powerful vulnerability and courageous questioning... we will share information, stories and be in an advanced healing-style circle practice. Create new space for you to take for yourself and share with others. "Restoring self and Reminding Others"
4-B: Restorative Start: RJ in Early Childhood
Benjamin Goldenhour – National Center for Restorative Justice
Through participatory activities and facilitated conversations, we will explore the nuances of utilizing Restorative Practices with the youngest members of our communities. This workshop offers practical strategies and effective language examined through a developmentally appropriate lens. What must be addressed that differentiates this crucial period of childhood? How can we foster a culture of agency and empathy in pre-operational stages? The tools and framework are familiar, but there is necessary adjustment in how we must present them when nurturing a culture of accountability and fellowship for early learners. With a focus on authentic modeling, simple communication, and play-based interaction, we can foster a strong foundation for restorative thinking that will encourage children to navigate conflict with care and confidence.
4-C: How Restorative Justice Healed a Small Community
Liberty Miller - Victim Support Services
Join me for a look inside my victim offender dialogue (VOD) with the man who murdered my brother: the many years it took to decide to do it, the anxiety leading up to it, and the fear on the day of the event. Two years after our VOD, the offender was released back into our small community; a community where memories are long and anger runs deep. Hear how forgiveness changed not only my and the offender’s life, but also played a part in healing a town.
4-D: Ecological Systems Theory and a Multi-Systemic Approach to Community Wholeness
Matthew King - University of Washington
Models of retributive justice inaccurately imagine harmful behavior as driven solely by individual choice. Russian-American psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory provides firm theoretical groundwork for understanding behavior and development in a more nuanced and accurate way. This session provides an overview of EST. Participants will learn a practical, multi-systemic approach to increase proliferation of community building behaviors while decreasing prevalence of community-harming behaviors, regardless of the context in which they work.
Session 5: 12:45pm-2:15pm
5-A: Embodying Restorative Justice Through Creative Practice
Shekinah Alegra, Laura Diamond – Conflict Artistry, LLC
This workshop draws from interdisciplinary creative and embodiment practices to explore how restorative justice principles can be expressed in the body and incorporated into personal and communal healing journeys. These experiential exercises coupled will help attendees practice how to support themselves and others in accessing greater nervous system resources and creativity while fostering a deeper integration of restorative justice values and principles in their daily lives.
5-B: Beyond Trauma-Informed. Designing Healing-Centered Justice: A Transformative Approach
Stephanie Burns, Grace Crowley - Healing Courage
Dive into the intentional, thoughtful world of healing-centered and transformative approaches designed for survivors of sexual violence and intimate harm. Through relational and vulnerable discourse, we’ll engage in a participatory action research review and analysis of intimate insight gathered from hours of conversations with survivors. Armed with this collective wisdom, and grounded in healing-centered practices, we’ll explore how to cultivate collaborative spaces that honor and value survivors to create powerful conditions for equity and inclusion and learning and healing.
5-C: Building Change, Building Relationships
Debra Pennington Davis - Six Rivers Dispute Resolution Center
Are you interested in creating meaningful, lasting change in your community? Would you like to connect with others who can help you understand your community more deeply? Come learn about community readiness assessments! In this session, we’ll share our journey creating and conducting a community readiness assessment to help us build our pilot Circles of Peace restorative justice program. Participants will get practice in several key steps in planning a community readiness assessment. We encourage you to attend with a colleague from your organization or community, though this is not necessary.
5-D: GAME DAY!!!
Morgan Moore, Shyvonne Williams, PHD - C3
Life is a game and how we play it matters, so come play this non-competitive game with us where you'll be reminded and may even learn some new health and wellbeing strategies that can be incorporated into your care routine as a facilitator, or which can be incorporated into your work with others. This will be a fun, lighthearted, interactive session.
5-A: Embodying Restorative Justice Through Creative Practice
Shekinah Alegra, Laura Diamond – Conflict Artistry, LLC
This workshop draws from interdisciplinary creative and embodiment practices to explore how restorative justice principles can be expressed in the body and incorporated into personal and communal healing journeys. These experiential exercises coupled will help attendees practice how to support themselves and others in accessing greater nervous system resources and creativity while fostering a deeper integration of restorative justice values and principles in their daily lives.
5-B: Beyond Trauma-Informed. Designing Healing-Centered Justice: A Transformative Approach
Stephanie Burns, Grace Crowley - Healing Courage
Dive into the intentional, thoughtful world of healing-centered and transformative approaches designed for survivors of sexual violence and intimate harm. Through relational and vulnerable discourse, we’ll engage in a participatory action research review and analysis of intimate insight gathered from hours of conversations with survivors. Armed with this collective wisdom, and grounded in healing-centered practices, we’ll explore how to cultivate collaborative spaces that honor and value survivors to create powerful conditions for equity and inclusion and learning and healing.
5-C: Building Change, Building Relationships
Debra Pennington Davis - Six Rivers Dispute Resolution Center
Are you interested in creating meaningful, lasting change in your community? Would you like to connect with others who can help you understand your community more deeply? Come learn about community readiness assessments! In this session, we’ll share our journey creating and conducting a community readiness assessment to help us build our pilot Circles of Peace restorative justice program. Participants will get practice in several key steps in planning a community readiness assessment. We encourage you to attend with a colleague from your organization or community, though this is not necessary.
5-D: GAME DAY!!!
Morgan Moore, Shyvonne Williams, PHD - C3
Life is a game and how we play it matters, so come play this non-competitive game with us where you'll be reminded and may even learn some new health and wellbeing strategies that can be incorporated into your care routine as a facilitator, or which can be incorporated into your work with others. This will be a fun, lighthearted, interactive session.
NW Justice Forum
a collaborative effort of restorative justice practitioners across Idaho, Oregon and Washington
The NW Justice Forum is a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization, Tax ID (EIN) 46-1323531.
a collaborative effort of restorative justice practitioners across Idaho, Oregon and Washington
The NW Justice Forum is a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization, Tax ID (EIN) 46-1323531.
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