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About rjfacilitator

My experience, education, and passion have met in alternative discipline. Through my policy work and my mediation experience I have worked and studied the dynamic components of discipline in many settings. While Restorative Justice is not the only way to approach conflict in communities, it has provided me an effective model in which to examine and engage in conflict. We provide custom programs for schools, colleges, and youth serving agencies seeking to engage with conflict using healthy and sustainable tools.

The difference between “Conflict,” “Harm,” and “Violence”

The conflict we experience is not the same.  Mediators, RJ facilitators, teachers, youth professionals, administrators, and the like all struggle to deal with conflict in effective ways, partially because conflict is so complex.  If we approach conflict in the same … Continue reading

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Cleveland The Begining

Cleveland High School has taken positive step toward changing their discipline policy.  I am a member of the Race and Social Justice Round Table, a collaboration between Seattle Public Schools (SPS) and the City of Seattle Office of Civil Rights … Continue reading

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