CircleRestora® Restorative Justice Roots

A foundational restorative justice training that helps participants understand Indigenous Roots of Restorative Justice and the origins of modern day Restorative Justice Practices in schools, communities, and organizations.

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Key benefits
✔ Build a deeper understanding of restorative justice and its foundational principles

✔ Examine how different values shape responses to conflict, harm, and accountability

✔ Connect restorative practices to workplace, institutional, and community systems

Quick Facts About CircleRestora™ Restorative Justice Roots

What CircleRestora™ Restorative Justice Values Teaches

CircleRestora™ Restorative Justice Systems is a foundational training that invites participants to critically examine what restorative justice means and why implementing it requires more than adopting a set of practices. Participants explore the meanings of restorative and justice, including the subjective ways people define what is fair, moral, right, or deserved.

Participants examine the values and beliefs underlying authoritarian injustice, punitive justice, and restorative justice. Through reflection and comparison, they consider how these systems understand harm, accountability, decision-making, relationships, and the purpose of responding to conflict.

The training also helps participants connect their personal values and lived experiences to the systems operating within their workplaces and institutions. Participants then explore different restorative justice practices and how restorative values can be translated into more intentional responses to conflict, harm, and community needs.

Pillar 1: Defining Justice

Examine why fairness, morality, and justice can mean different things to different people.

Pillar 2: Systems and Values

Explore the values underlying authoritarian, punitive, and restorative approaches.

Pillar 3: Restorative Practice

Connect restorative principles to practical responses to conflict and harm.

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Learning Outcomes

  1. Define restorative justice and critically examine the meanings of restorative and justice.

  2. Explain how subjective ideas about fairness, morality, and what is right can shape conflict.

  3. Compare the values and principles underlying authoritarian injustice, punitive justice, and restorative justice.

  4. Reflect on how personal values and lived experiences influence responses to harm and accountability.

  5. Identify restorative justice practices and explain how they reflect restorative values and principles.

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Who is CircleRestora™ Restorative Justice Systems For?

This training is Ideal For

• Employees and frontline staff
• Supervisors and managers
• HR and training leaders
• Cross-functional teams
• School staff and public service employees
• Social workers and service coordinators

Available Training Formats

Live Online Training
Facilitated workshop delivered via Zoom.

Live Onsite Training
Facilitated workshop delivered in person at your site.

Each option can be customized for your team.

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Testimonials

“I had participated in restorative practices before, but this training helped me understand the deeper values behind them. It challenged our leadership team to look beyond the practices themselves and examine what is truly guiding our decisions around fairness, accountability, and harm.”

HR Director

“This training completely shifted how I think about justice. I realized that people can enter the same conflict with very different ideas about what is fair or right. Understanding that has helped me approach student discipline and staff conflict with much more curiosity and intention.”

School Administrator

“What stood out was the connection between personal values and organizational systems. The training helped us recognize where our stated restorative values were not always reflected in our policies or responses, and it gave us a stronger foundation for changing that.”

Program Director

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Hours
Monday–Friday
7am–7pm Pacific Standard Time

Location
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