Restorative Justice Unleashed
Foundations for Healing Justice using Active Peace Circles
Five Wednesdays / May 6 – June 3
6:00 – 7:15 pm (Mountain time)
Empower yourself with core principles and practices that support personal, interpersonal, and collective healing, community justice, and societal transformation.
Active Peace Circles take the best of restorative justice and go deeper, to address root causes and systems change. Active Peace Circles:
- Are rooted in deep nonviolence—in love and collective action.
- Are community-initiated and community-led.
- Can be applied to the full range of challenging issues we face.
- Change hearts and minds and help transform society.
Active Peace Circles can address harm and accountability related to:
- Any type of violence or abuse of power (racism, discrimination, economic and social injustice).
- Climate destabilization and environmentally damaging projects.
- Unhealthy group dynamics.
- The Coronavirus pandemic.
Session One: The Restorative Justice Worldview
Root yourself in the rich soil of a healing, holistic, paradigm-busting worldview. Feel the truth and beauty beyond the illusion of separation and get inspired to be a stronger force than ever for transformation.
Session Two: The Five Foundations of Healing Justice
Leaders and participants in Active Peace Circles need high levels of openness, respect, and personal responsibility. Learn the 5 Rs of restorative/healing justice and other essentials for showing up fully resourced.
Session Three: Relationship Skills and Circle Preparation
Healing Justice revolves around interpersonal relationships, and we all know this is where our best intentions are most seriously challenged. Work the preparation phase of the Active Peace Circle process and receive the foundational relationship skills needed for transforming conflict into deeper relationships.
Session Four: Deep Nonviolence and the Circle Process
Learn the two core values of nonviolence and go deeper into the mechanics of the Active Peace Circle process. Explore why this form of Healing Justice represents a radical paradigm shift and evolves nonviolence and activism in beautiful ways that are ultimately essential to our survival.
Session Five: Bring it Home to Your Heart and Community
Learn the four capacities for being an Active Peace Circle facilitator and put it all together so you can bring community-led Healing Justice to your community. Explore needed resources and next steps in making this model of conflict transformation a reality.
Facilitated by G. Scott Brown, author of ACTIVE PEACE: A Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World. Scott trained and volunteered with two different restorative justice programs in Colorado and served as coordinator for the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office program. He is a leading advocate for bringing the principles and practices of restorative justice to bear on the full range of social issues. More information about Scott and his work can be found at www.4ActivePeace.com.
This series is endorsed by the Boulder branch of the NAACP, Boulder Shambhala Center, Inner Resilience Network of Transition US, and the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.
TO REGISTER, email: scott@4activepeace.com
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Comments from previous attendees:
Scott Brown’s Active Peace workshops were filled with enlightening, interactive activities. In the final hours, the ramifications of this approach to conflict transformation rendered us awe-struck. We were awed by the magnitude of the paradigm shift, by the humanity of it, and by the almost unfathomable potential. —Deborah Fink, Boulder, CO
To fully benefit from an Active Peace workshop with Scott Brown one does well to bring a willingness to engage in an immersive experience and in one’s own transformation. This is far better than coming with expectations. —Ken Poehner, Boulder, CO