Hi Brooklyn College! Restorative Justice Training for College Students!

[Denice Ocana]

Hello everyone! 

This April, New York Peace Institute, the official community dispute resolution center for Brooklyn and Manhattan, is offering a 2-day Introduction to Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices Training open to all undergraduate college students in New York City. We are calling for any undergraduate student leaders or representatives for a student organization to take this training. Please also share this information with your network of undergraduate students. 

We need your support in spreading the word! If you have connections to any local universities or know of students who may be interested, please share the attached flier with them. Below is more information about the training and why students may be interested. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. 

                                                  Why take this training?

For decades, college campuses have served as a hub for young people to organize and advocate for change around issues of social justice and inequality. Often conflicts or issues that are challenging society become exacerbated on college campuses as the high-stakes, academic, and social environment can act like a microcosm of the world. NYPI believes it is important to equip the next generation with the capacity and skills to hold space for their peers to discuss difficult topics and build meaningful relationships. Through this training, we hope to expose young people to a new approach to justice and develop their facilitation skills so that they can use these practices in their communities. It is our goal that college students across the city can connect and bring these practices back to their campuses to facilitate more community dialogue and create a shift around how we respond to conflict and harm.  Circles, a central process of Restorative Practices that hinges on storytelling and equalizing hierarchy, can be used to build relationships, welcome new members into community, resolve conflict, and share skills and knowledge. As more college campuses across the country become fractured due to differing beliefs or clashing values, NYPI hopes circles can be used, through student organizations or University programs, to remind us that we live interconnected lives and, thus we owe each other and our community's compassion, accountability, and dialogue. 

Our training will explore the fundamentals of Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices, including affective language, active listening and circles. On the first day, participants will explore how Restorative Practices can be used to intentionally build community by both experiencing a community building circle and developing their own circle script. For the second day of the training, we will explore conflict and how to use Restorative Justice to respond to different kinds of harm using circles and conferencing. In order to participate, we ask that you complete a brief application, linked here, and pay a $25 fee to hold your spot. The fee will be refunded upon completion of both days of training. If you fail to show up for training, we will charge the $25.

Thank you,

Denice Ocana

OPERATIONS & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

 

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