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Through the development of this critical consciousness, we can also begin to build practices that interrupt the racial narrative of white supremacy and support personal and collective liberation grounded in equity.

All sessions utilize multiple learning strategies, including virtually facilitated learning experiences, interactive community building through an online platform, and self-directed learning, reflection, and processing outside of the facilitated experiences.

The sessions are designed in a progressive way, and an integral component of the experience is the shared dialogue participants have with fellow attendees. For this reason, it is required that participants plan to attend all 3 sessions in order to receive the full benefit of this format.

The Spring/Summer Series will be offered virtually on the following dates:

• Thursday, May 27th – Day 1: Introduction to the System of Racial Inequity
• Thursday, June 10th – Day 2: Exploring the History of Racism
• Wednesday, June 16th – Day 3: Moving into Racial Justice as an Ongoing Practice

Our Virtual Series Offering

We ask participants to dedicate the full day (9:00 am – 4:30 pm CST) to their racial justice learning and practice for each day of the Series.

Participants will have two facilitated blocks of learning over Zoom (AM Block: 9:00 am-11:00 am; PM Block: 2:000 pm-4:30 pm) with approximately 1-2 hrs of self-directed practices in between these two blocks. These practices are meant to deepen reflection, sense-making, and application for their racial justice learning and will sometimes be offered in pairs or small group formats as well.

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We would like to invite you to join and participate in our Restorative Justice training series Summer 2021. This year our 3day training series will be offered in-person and in a virtual format as well. As always, we will be abiding by Public Health guidelines and recommendations which means our in-person training series are subjected to switch to virtual format if required.

Our interactive curricula and workshops continue to be alive, changing, evolving, and adjusting to the most recent research, best practices, and context.

During our three-day Restorative Justice journey, we will learn and unlearn many things including:

• Level 100: Restorative Justice Philosophy and the Experiential Circle Process
  • YWCA experiential holistic framework, Values, Circle Process, and its different elements. Mindfulness as a restorative liberatory practice.
• Level 200: Restorative Justice as a Way to Dismantle Institutional Racism
  • Culture, Power, timeline, and history of years of inequality, freedom, and abolitionist dreaming.
• Level 300: Restorative Justice In Education: Tools and Practices for a Holistic Restorative Approach
  • What are Restorative and Transformative justice? We will also engage in learning about different universal restorative justice practices with a healing-centered engagement as a way to build healthy relationships, create just and equitable environments, and transform and repair conflict.

All Restorative Justice Workshops sessions will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at YWCA Madison’s Empowerment Center located at 2040 S. Park Street. The cost for the 3-day series is $360 general cost, $290 Student rate, and this training series is free for staff from our partner agencies, schools, and collaborators.

Registration for the Restorative Justice Training Series is currently open.

Please fill in the following interest form if you’re interested in participating in any of the dates above.
There’s a max capacity of 15 participants per cohort.

After filling in the form, we will get back to you with a confirmation email and the next steps.

Please feel free to email Eugenia Highland Granados, YWCA Restorative Justice Program Director at ehighlnd@ywcamadison.org for any questions or to be notified about future workshop dates.