CircleUp® Restorative Justice Training

Restorative Justice Trainings, Certificates & Practitioner Pathways

Build restorative justice knowledge, facilitation skills, and real-world practice through CircleUp® live online, in-person, self-paced, and organizational training. Explore restorative conversations, relationship circles, conflict circles, foundational learning, implementation, practitioner certification, and advanced practicum pathways.

  • Live Online + In Person
  • Flexible Self-Paced Learning
  • Professional Practitioner Certifications
  • Organizations SCORM + Private Training
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Participants practicing restorative justice skills in small groups
01 Learn the foundations.
02 Practice the process.
03 Demonstrate your skills.

Restorative Justice Training Collections

Explore CircleUp® Restorative Justice Trainings

CircleUp® restorative justice trainings are organized into distinct collections so you can quickly understand what each group of courses is designed to teach. Explore practice-based circle facilitation, foundational restorative justice learning, non-circle restorative practices, equity-centered skill development, and companion courses.

CircleCraft™ Preventative + Proactive Practice-Based

CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Collection

Practice-based restorative justice training for people who want to learn how to design, customize, guide, and facilitate preventative and proactive circles. These trainings focus on relationship building, community agreements, shared values, structured dialogue, team building, classroom circles, and strengthening connection before conflict occurs.

CircleCraft™ Responsive Practice Conflict + Harm

CircleCraft™ Conflict Circles Collection

Responsive restorative justice training for assessing conflict, preparing participants, designing restorative conflict circles, and facilitating conversations that address impact, needs, accountability, understanding, and next steps. Begin with pre-circle assessment and preparation before moving into conflict circle facilitation.

Recommended sequence: 1. Pre-Circle Assessment & Preparation 2. Conflict Circles 3. Solution Circles for more complex applications
CircleRestora® Foundational Learning The “What & Why”

CircleRestora® Collection

Foundational restorative justice trainings focused on what restorative justice is, where it comes from, what values ground restorative practice, how restorative and punitive systems differ, and how organizations can thoughtfully implement restorative approaches in schools, workplaces, agencies, and communities.

Participants taking part in a CircleUp restorative justice foundations training
START HERE
Restorative Justice Foundations

CircleRestora® Foundations

Build a foundational understanding of restorative justice, including its purpose, core concepts, values, systems, roots, and the practices that distinguish restorative approaches from punitive responses. This training provides a starting point for people who are new to restorative justice or preparing for additional CircleUp® training.

Foundational Restorative Justice Start Here
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Systems + Definitions

CircleRestora® Restorative Justice Systems

Examine restorative, punitive, discipline, and social justice systems to better understand how justice is defined, what makes an approach restorative, and how underlying values shape practices in schools, workplaces, and communities.

Foundational Systems Thinking RJ Concepts
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Values + Integrity

CircleRestora® Restorative Justice Values

Explore the values that ground restorative justice, where those values come from, and how to evaluate whether a practice, response, policy, or process is meaningfully restorative and aligned with restorative principles.

Foundational Values Restorative Lens
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History + Roots

CircleRestora® Restorative Justice Roots

Develop historical and contextual grounding in restorative justice, including the Indigenous roots and traditions that inform contemporary restorative justice practices and the evolution of restorative approaches.

Foundational History Indigenous Roots
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Implementation + Systems Change

CircleRestora® Restorative Justice Implementation

Learn practical strategies for preparing, planning, and implementing restorative justice across an organization, school, workplace, or community while accounting for culture, capacity, context, and long-term sustainability.

Implementation Organizations Strategy
RJ Essentials Non-Circle Practices Equity + Skill Development

Restorative Justice Essentials Collection

Restorative justice extends beyond circles. This collection develops non-circle restorative practices, communication skills, relationship-building habits, bias awareness, and other capacities that help practitioners work more thoughtfully across identities, situations, and communities.

CircleCraft™ Companion Courses Tools + Practice

CircleCraft™ Design Guides Collection

Companion learning designed to help practitioners use CircleCraft™ Design Guides with greater confidence. These courses connect CircleUp® planning tools to practical circle design, facilitation, examples, and real-world application.

Recommended Restorative Justice Training Pathways

Where should I start with restorative justice training?

There is no single learning sequence for every restorative justice practitioner. Start with what your role requires, then build depth over time. These pathways are learning recommendations. Formal CircleUp® Practitioner Certifications have specific required components, assessments, and submissions that are outlined in the certification section below.

Looking for formal practitioner certification?

Recommended learning pathways and Practitioner Certification pathways are related, but they are not the same thing. Certification requires completion of the designated program requirements.

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Required when specified Recommended Optional enrichment
01 Fastest Path to Practice

I need to facilitate restorative circles now.

Best for educators, facilitators, managers, program staff, and community leaders who need practical circle skills quickly and do not need to complete an extensive theory sequence before beginning.

Highly Recommended CircleRestora® Foundations Build a general understanding of restorative justice before beginning practice if your schedule allows.
Core Practice CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Choose the half-day or full-day version when your immediate goal is relationship-building, classroom, workplace, or preventative circles.
If Addressing Conflict Pre-Circle Assessment & Preparation + Conflict Circles Take both parts when you will facilitate responsive circles involving conflict, impact, or harm.
02 Practitioner Foundation

I want a grounded restorative justice practice.

Best for people responsible for restorative justice within a nonprofit, workplace, school, community organization, university, public agency, or other institution.

Start Here CircleRestora® Restorative Justice Foundations The more comprehensive foundational experience is preferred when available; a shorter foundational experience can also establish a starting point.
Deepen Context RJ Values or RJ Systems Add conceptual depth around restorative values, justice, organizational systems, and restorative decision-making.
Practice Foundation Relationship Circles Develop preventative circle practice and relationship-building facilitation skills.
Responsive Practice Pre-Circle Assessment + Conflict Circles Add when your role involves conflict resolution, harm, repair, responsive practices, or facilitated accountability.
03 Leadership + Implementation

I lead restorative justice implementation.

Best for school administrators, district leaders, HR leaders, directors, managers, implementation teams, and organizational decision-makers responsible for supporting restorative systems.

Foundation CircleRestora® Restorative Justice Foundations Understand core language, philosophy, systems, and practices before directing implementation.
Experience the Practice CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Develop first-hand understanding of the preventative circles commonly used to build school and workplace culture.
Implementation CircleRestora® Restorative Justice Implementation Learn how to prepare for broader restorative implementation across diverse communities and organizational environments.
If Overseeing Responsive RJ Pre-Circle + Conflict Circles + Implicit Bias Understand the responsive process and how bias can influence assessment, facilitation, decisions, and participant experience.
04 Justice + Diversion

I work in diversion, justice, or advanced conflict resolution.

Best for practitioners whose roles involve responsive restorative justice, diversion, complex conflict, facilitated repair, or conflict-resolution processes with significant impact.

Foundation CircleRestora® Foundations Establish restorative principles, values, systems, and historical grounding.
Core Responsive Sequence Full Conflict Circles Sequence Complete Pre-Circle Assessment & Preparation followed by CircleCraft™ Conflict Circles.
Advanced CircleCraft™ Solution Circles Recommended for larger, more complex, or more layered restorative processes.
Essential Development OpenStep™ + Implicitly Yours™ + Additional Essential Learning Deepen restorative conversation skills and strengthen the equity lens needed for responsive restorative practice.
Not sure which pathway fits your role?

Schedule a free 30-minute assessment and we can help identify a starting point for you, your team, or a larger implementation.

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Professional Restorative Justice Practitioner Certification

Earn a CircleUp® Restorative Justice Practitioner Certification.

Choose the restorative practice you want to develop and demonstrate. CircleUp® offers professional practitioner certification pathways in Relationship Circles, Conflict Circles, Restorative Conversations, and an Advanced Practicum for deeper, evaluated real-world practice.

These are rigorous, practice-based professional learning programs designed for people who want to develop competency in specific restorative justice practices. Each certification combines restorative justice foundations with applied learning, scenario-based assessment, skills practice, testing, and required work designed to demonstrate that participants can thoughtfully design and apply restorative practices.

Individual Training

Take a course on a specific topic.

Individual CircleUp® courses can be taken independently to develop knowledge or a specific skill. Successful completion earns the certificate identified for that course.

Certificate of Completion Documents successful completion of the individual learning experience.
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Practitioner Certification

Complete a defined professional pathway.

Practitioner Certification requires the designated live training components, knowledge checks, quizzes or tests, skills practice, scenario-based assessment, and required submissions for that certification pathway.

Practitioner Certification Documents CircleUp® review of the knowledge and work required for the specific restorative practice.
Relationship Circles restorative justice practitioner certification Relationship Circles
01 Practitioner Certification
≈ 8 hours

Relationship Circles

CircleUp® Restorative Justice Practitioner Certification - Relationship Circles

Develop the restorative justice knowledge and circle-design competency needed to create purposeful restorative circles that strengthen relationships, establish shared agreements, explore values, build teams, and guide meaningful group discussion.

Certification develops competency in:

  • Restorative justice foundations and basic principles
  • Communicating what restorative justice is and how restorative practice differs from punitive approaches
  • Community Agreement Circles
  • Value Exploration Circles
  • Team Building Circles
  • Discussion Circles
  • Designing and customizing circles for specific groups and goals
  • Designing a connected series of circles around a common theme or community goal
Certification Requirements

Includes live online professional learning, knowledge checks, quizzes or testing, practice, and required circle-design submissions demonstrating the participant’s ability to select, design, adapt, and prepare appropriate circles for different groups and circumstances.

Best for: Educators, managers, facilitators, community leaders, organizational staff, and practitioners who want to use restorative circles proactively to strengthen relationships and community.

Conflict Circles restorative justice practitioner certification Conflict Circles
02 Practitioner Certification
16 hours

Conflict Circles

CircleUp® Restorative Justice Practitioner Certification - Conflict Circles

Build the skills and judgment needed to assess conflict, prepare participants, and design restorative processes that help people address impact, accountability, needs, and next steps.

Certification develops competency in:

  • Restorative justice foundations and basic principles
  • Explaining restorative justice and responsive restorative processes
  • OpenStep™ Restorative Conversations
  • Conflict assessment and process selection
  • Pre-circle preparation and participant readiness
  • CircleCraft™ Assessment Practice
  • Mindful Meetings for restorative conferences involving two or, when appropriate, up to three participants
  • Restorative communication, impact, accountability, needs, and next steps
Certification Requirements

Includes the designated conflict-assessment and responsive practice trainings, restorative conversation development, knowledge checks, quizzes or tests, scenario-based decision-making, practice, and submission of conflict-circle designs based on varied situations.

Best for: Practitioners responsible for conflict resolution, responsive restorative justice, student or employee conflict, diversion, accountability processes, or facilitated repair.

Restorative Conversations practitioner certification Restorative Conversations
03 Practitioner Certification
6 hours

Restorative Conversations

CircleUp® Restorative Justice Practitioner Certification - Restorative Conversations

Develop the communication skills and restorative framework needed to help people process difficult experiences, feel heard, identify needs, and move toward thoughtful next steps without requiring a formal circle process.

Certification develops competency in:

  • Restorative justice foundations
  • OpenStep™ Restorative Conversations
  • BaseStep™ needs-based next steps
  • Listening and paraphrasing
  • Emotional processing
  • Open-ended questioning
  • Restorative inquiry
  • Helping people identify needs and determine thoughtful next steps without rushing to advice or solutions
Certification Requirements

Includes live professional learning, skills practice, scenario-based assessment, knowledge checks, and rigorous testing designed to evaluate both understanding and application of restorative conversation skills.

Best for: Educators, managers, HR professionals, facilitators, supervisors, community leaders, and practitioners who need restorative communication skills that can be used outside a formal circle.

Advanced restorative justice practitioner practicum Advanced Practicum
04 Advanced Practicum
40 hours

Advanced Practitioner Practicum

CircleUp® Restorative Justice Practitioner Certification - Advanced Practicum

CircleUp®’s most comprehensive restorative justice practitioner pathway combines advanced study, multiple restorative practices, rigorous competency assessment, and evaluated real-world application.

Advanced study includes:

  • Restorative justice history and roots
  • Restorative values and principles
  • Restorative justice systems
  • Relationship Circles
  • Conflict Circles
  • Pre-circle assessment and preparation
  • Solution Circles for larger or more complex conflict
  • Restorative Conversations
  • Advanced circle design and customization
Evaluated Practicum

Unlike pathways based only on coursework and assessment, Advanced Practicum participants apply their learning in actual restorative practice. Required practice is documented and evaluated using CircleUp®’s circle evaluation process, incorporating participant feedback and review of preparation, design, facilitation, and the practitioner’s ability to support intended outcomes.

Best for: Experienced practitioners, program leaders, restorative justice coordinators, facilitators, implementation leaders, and professionals who want to demonstrate not only what they know and can design, but how they apply restorative practices with real people.

What Practitioner Certification Requires

These are not attendance-only certificates.

01 Live Learning

Practitioner certification pathways include designated live online professional learning components.

02 Knowledge Checks + Testing

Participants complete required quizzes, tests, or other assessments connected to the certification outcomes.

03 Applied Design Work

Required submissions demonstrate that participants can design and customize restorative processes for specific groups, goals, and circumstances.

04 Scenario-Based Judgment

Participants demonstrate that they can think through changing circumstances rather than simply memorize the steps of a process.

05 Practice

Certification includes opportunities to practice the restorative skills and processes included in the pathway.

06 CircleUp® Review

Required certification work is reviewed against the expectations of the specific practitioner pathway.

CircleUp® Training Credentials

How CircleUp® training credentials work.

A Certificate of Completion, Practitioner Certification, and an Advanced Practicum credential do not represent the same level of learning or evidence. CircleUp® uses different credential levels to clearly distinguish successful course completion, assessed practitioner competency, and evaluated real-world practice.

LEVEL 01
C

Certificate of Completion

Recognition that a learner successfully completed a designated CircleUp® course or professional learning experience.

  • Available for individual courses as identified on the course page.
  • Documents successful participation and completion.
  • Can accompany a self-paced, live online, or in-person learning experience.
  • Does not by itself indicate completion of a full Practitioner Certification pathway.
  • Course-specific activities and knowledge checks may still be required.
What it communicates I successfully completed this learning experience.
LEVEL 02 · PRACTITIONER
P

Practitioner Certification

A professional certification connected to a defined CircleUp® pathway requiring assessed learning, practice, testing, and demonstrated understanding of the specific restorative practice.

  • Includes defined certification outcomes.
  • Includes required live professional learning components.
  • Includes knowledge checks, quizzes, testing, or other formal assessment.
  • Includes skills practice and scenario-based application.
  • Includes required design or application submissions reviewed as part of certification.
  • Documents competency within the scope of the specific certification pathway.
What it communicates I completed the pathway and demonstrated the required knowledge and design competency.
LEVEL 03 · ADVANCED
A

Advanced Practicum Certification

CircleUp®’s highest practice-oriented restorative justice credential, combining comprehensive study, competency assessment, and evaluated application with real participants.

  • Includes approximately 40 hours of advanced practitioner learning.
  • Includes multiple restorative practices rather than a single specialization.
  • Includes advanced design and facilitation requirements.
  • Requires documented restorative practice.
  • Incorporates feedback from actual participants and/or designated evaluation processes.
  • Includes CircleUp® review of preparation, design, facilitation, and applied practice.
What it communicates I demonstrated the ability to apply restorative practices in real-world settings.
IACET Accredited Provider

Continuing Education

IACET CEUs are separate from your CircleUp® credential.

CircleUp® is an IACET Accredited Provider. Qualifying learning events may award IACET Continuing Education Units in addition to the CircleUp® certificate or certification associated with that training. Course-specific pages and registration information identify whether IACET CEUs are offered, the number of CEUs available, and the requirements for successful completion.

IACET accreditation applies to the continuing education provider and its documented processes. It is not an individual certification of every course or every participant.

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THE CIRCLEUP® TRAINING EXPERIENCE

What to Expect from a CircleUp® Training

Learn the practice. Apply the skills. Demonstrate what you know.

CircleUp® restorative justice training is designed to move participants beyond passive attendance. Depending on the course and credential level, participants learn the concepts, see restorative processes modeled, practice skills, use professional tools, check their understanding, and demonstrate what they have learned.

Professional learning designed for real-world restorative practice.

Restorative justice requires more than knowing terminology or memorizing a list of questions. Effective practice depends on understanding why a process works, knowing when and how to use it, recognizing when a situation requires additional preparation, and being able to apply what was learned in real settings.

That is why CircleUp® distinguishes between learning experiences that document course completion and practitioner certification experiences that require demonstrated understanding, application, and, in advanced practicum work, evaluated real-world practice.

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01

Defined Learning Outcomes

Participants know what knowledge, skills, or applications the training is designed to develop.

02

Active Professional Learning

Training can include discussion, demonstration, reflection, scenario work, design activities, modeling, and guided practice.

03

Knowledge Checks

Designated courses use knowledge checks throughout the learning experience to help participants confirm understanding as they progress.

04

Assessment Matched to the Credential

Practitioner and practicum experiences require greater evidence of learning than a course-completion certificate.

05

Practice You Can Use

CircleUp® trainings emphasize processes, tools, frameworks, and decision-making that participants can bring back to real settings.

06

Consistent CircleUp® Delivery

CircleUp® maintains its training model internally rather than operating an open consultant or volunteer trainer network for CircleUp®-branded professional learning.

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Practice requires more than process.

Essential Practitioner Learning

Practice restorative justice with equity, awareness, and fidelity.

Restorative processes do not happen outside of identity, culture, power, access, disability, gender, bias, or lived experience. Technical facilitation skills alone do not prepare a practitioner for every person or situation they may encounter.

CircleUp® therefore recommends complementary professional learning that helps practitioners recognize how their assumptions, beliefs, communication habits, and decision-making can affect participants and restorative processes.

Implicit Bias Gender Identity + Expression Disability + Access Equity + Fairness Restorative Conversations Cultural Awareness
Advanced Practicum Development

CircleUp® practicum pathways include essential professional learning selected to support more thoughtful practice across diverse people, identities, communities, and situations.

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Restorative Justice Training Formats

Choose the way you want to learn.

Take a public training, bring CircleUp® to your organization, learn independently, or deploy selected courses through your own learning management system.

Live Online

Synchronous restorative justice training facilitated live on Zoom by a CircleUp® trainer. Depending on the training, public sessions may include approximately 50–100 participants with facilitated activities, modeling, discussion, and practice.

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Live In Person

Instructor-led training facilitated in person at a designated CircleUp® training site or at your organization. Sessions are led by CircleUp® restorative justice practitioners and can include experiential activities and hands-on practice.

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Self-Paced

Complete selected CircleUp® courses on your own schedule through our online learning platform. Self-paced courses may include video, interactive content, practice activities, knowledge checks, assessments, and digital certificates depending on the course.

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SCORM for Your LMS

Larger organizations and school districts can ask about selected CircleUp® courses packaged for implementation through an existing learning management system, supporting broader training rollouts and centralized learning.

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Training a Larger Team?

Self-paced seats and organization-wide learning are available.

Ask about seat packages, school or district implementations, institutional licensing, and supported SCORM options.

Restorative Justice Training + Practice Tools

Keep restorative practice going after the training ends.

CircleUp® tools are designed to support circle planning, relationship building, restorative conversations, reflection, emotional awareness, and day-to-day facilitation. Individual and bulk purchasing options are available through CircleUp Shop.

CircleCraft Relationship Circles Design Guide
Circle Planning

CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Design Guide

A reusable planning system for designing relationship-building and preventative restorative circles.

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CircleCraft™ Conflict Circles Design Guide
Responsive Circle Planning

CircleCraft™ Conflict Circles Design Guide

A practical reference for planning and structuring restorative circles designed to respond to conflict and harm.

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CircleUp® CirclePedia Circle Reference Tool
COMING SOON
Reference

CirclePedia

A reference resource designed to support circle planning, facilitation, ideas, and continued restorative practice.

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Relationship Building CUE Cards
Relationship Building

Relationship Building CUE Cards™

Conversation prompts for check-ins, reflection, connection, group engagement, and relationship-building circles.

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CircleUp Restorative Conversations Card
Restorative Conversations

Restorative Conversations™ Card

A portable step-by-step reference for restorative dialogue, processing impact, needs, and thoughtful next steps.

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CircleUp Feeling Wheel emotion charts
Emotional Awareness

The Feeling Wheel™

Support participants in identifying, naming, and communicating emotions during reflection, conversations, and circles.

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CircleUp Emoji Emotions Chart three-pack
Emotion + Expression

Emoji Emotions Chart

A visual support for check-ins, emotional expression, reflection, and helping participants communicate how they are feeling.

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CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Framework Planning Posters
Group Planning

CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Framework Planning Posters

Large-format planning supports for collaborative circle design, facilitator training, and team-based planning.

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Free Live Restorative Justice Training Preview

Considering restorative justice training for your organization? Experience it first.

Our free restorative justice training preview is designed for school administrators, district officials, HR and training leaders, directors, managers, and organizational decision-makers who are considering restorative justice, relationship-building, or conflict resolution training for a larger group.

60 min Training sampler
30 min Live Q&A
FREE Live on Zoom

Experience selected activities, tools, and approaches from CircleUp® restorative justice trainings, then ask questions about course selection, customization, implementation, certifications, training logistics, and organization-wide options.

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Live Restorative Justice Trainings

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Practical, skill-based restorative justice trainings led live by our team. Every training includes a certificate of completion and qualifying IACET CEUs. Choose a format and date below.

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Practitioner certification: CircleUp® half-day and full-day live professional trainings are designed as components of Practitioner Certification pathways. Completing an individual training can earn the certificate identified for that training; formal Practitioner Certification is earned after all required pathway components, assessments, quizzes or tests, practice requirements, and required submissions have been completed.

Before you enroll: The credential type, assessment requirements, and exact IACET CEU amount, where applicable, are identified for the individual training. IACET CEUs are awarded only for qualifying learning events.

Private + Organization Restorative Justice Training

Bring CircleUp® restorative justice training to your team.

Planning restorative justice training for a school, district, workplace, university, nonprofit, public agency, or community group? Schedule a free 30-minute assessment and we will help you identify the right training, sequence, format, audience, and implementation approach.

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Schedule a Restorative Justice Training Assessment

Tell us what you are considering and we will help you identify next steps for training, implementation, group enrollment, self-paced learning, SCORM, or bulk tools.

Questions + Restorative Justice Training Policies

Restorative Justice Training FAQ

Clear answers about CircleUp® training standards, certifications, assessments, registration, refunds, transfers, group purchasing, and organization-wide learning.

Is CircleUp® a credible restorative justice training organization?

CircleUp® is an IACET Accredited Provider. Provider accreditation involves external review of documented continuing education and training processes, including areas such as needs analysis, learning outcomes, instructional content, assessment, learner records, and evaluation.

IACET accreditation applies to the provider and its continuing education processes; it does not mean that IACET individually certifies every CircleUp® course or practitioner. Qualifying learning events are identified with the applicable IACET CEU information and completion requirements.

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What is the difference between an individual training and a Practitioner Certification?

An individual CircleUp® training focuses on a specific topic, process, or professional skill and provides the certificate identified for that learning experience when its completion requirements are met.

A CircleUp® Practitioner Certification is a defined professional pathway with additional requirements. Depending on the certification, these include designated live training components, knowledge checks, quizzes or testing, practice, scenario-based assessment, circle or process design submissions, and CircleUp® review of required work.

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Does CircleUp® offer restorative justice practitioner certification?

Yes. CircleUp® offers defined Restorative Justice Practitioner Certification pathways in Relationship Circles, Conflict Circles, and Restorative Conversations, as well as an Advanced Practicum pathway that combines multiple restorative practices with evaluated real-world application.

Each pathway identifies the specific training, assessment, practice, and submission requirements that must be completed before certification is awarded.

CircleUp® Practitioner Certification is a professional training credential. It is not a government license and does not authorize a practitioner to teach or reproduce CircleUp® proprietary training content.

How does CircleUp® maintain consistency across its trainings?

CircleUp® maintains a centralized training model. CircleUp®-branded live online and live in-person trainings are facilitated by CircleUp® employees rather than an open network of independent consultants, licensed trainers, or volunteers. Self-paced CircleUp® course content is likewise developed and produced through CircleUp®.

This allows the organization to manage curriculum, facilitation standards, course updates, learning materials, assessment requirements, and training quality more consistently across delivery formats.

Do I have to take a test to earn Practitioner Certification?

Practitioner Certification pathways include required knowledge checks, quizzes, tests, assessments, and/or practice experiences connected to the certification requirements.

An individual Certificate of Completion is different. Its requirements depend on the specific course and do not automatically represent completion of a Practitioner Certification pathway.

Advanced Practicum Certification requires additional evidence of applied practice, including designated real-world circle design and facilitation work and evaluation.

What happens if I do not pass a quiz or assessment?

Most CircleUp® course assessments are completed through our online learning environment. Learners are provided with course content and guidance connected to what they are expected to know, and opportunities to review relevant material may be available before retaking an assessment.

Many quizzes and tests use an 80% passing benchmark, but the individual course or certification requirements control. Certain unsuccessful assessments or practicum requirements may require additional training or repeating a course at the participant’s expense. Review the individual training or certification page before enrollment for the requirements that apply.

What is the refund policy for self-paced courses?

A self-paced course may be eligible for a refund before more than 5% of the course has been completed. The opening portion generally gives learners an opportunity to review the course overview, structure, and learning outcomes.

Once more than 5% of the self-paced course has been completed, the course is no longer refundable.

What is the refund or transfer policy for live training?

Live online and live in-person registrations may receive a full refund when cancellation is requested at least 14 calendar days before the training begins.

After the 14-calendar-day refund window, registrations are not refundable; however, participants may request to move to another available date without a transfer penalty.

If you accidentally registered for the wrong course, contact connect@circleuped.com . Depending on the situation, our team can assist with a transfer, an eligible course of similar or lower value, or applicable registration credit for a later training.

Can my organization register multiple people or pay by purchase order?

Yes. If you are registering multiple participants, need help coordinating enrollment, or your institution requires a purchase order, check, or invoice, contact CircleUp® before registration.

Email connect@circleuped.com or schedule a free assessment and our team can help you navigate institutional purchasing.

Can CircleUp® bring restorative justice training directly to our organization?

Yes. CircleUp® works with schools, districts, workplaces, universities, nonprofits, public agencies, and community organizations to provide private restorative justice training.

Training can be delivered live online or in person depending on the program, location, audience, and organizational needs. Begin with a free 30-minute assessment so our team can understand your goals and recommend an appropriate sequence.

Does CircleUp® provide restorative justice training outside California?

Yes. CircleUp® provides training beyond California through live-online programs, private organizational training, and selected in-person engagements. We work with organizations across the United States and can discuss selected international engagements based on location and program requirements.

Are training materials included in the registration price?

Most CircleUp® live online and live in-person training prices include the materials required to participate in the training. Some courses may have exceptions, optional companion tools, or separate materials.

Always review the individual training description before enrollment for the exact materials included and anything you may need to purchase or prepare separately.

Can we put CircleUp® self-paced courses inside our LMS?

Selected CircleUp® courses may be available for larger implementations through seat-based eLearning options or SCORM packages that can be incorporated into a supported organizational learning management system.

Availability varies by course. Contact our team to discuss your LMS, number of learners, implementation scope, reporting needs, and available packages.

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Does CircleUp® use volunteers or independent consultants to facilitate official trainings?

No. CircleUp® does not use volunteers or an open independent consultant network to facilitate official CircleUp®-branded live trainings. CircleUp® live training facilitators are CircleUp® employees.

If you encounter someone representing an independent training as an official CircleUp® training and you would like to verify it, contact connect@circleuped.com or call (510) 470-5290 .

Your Next Step

Build the restorative justice practice your role requires.

Explore the complete training collection, begin a Practitioner Certification pathway, register for an upcoming live course, learn on your own schedule, or talk with CircleUp® about training your school, district, workplace, organization, or community.