Circle meetings with victims of crime, offenders, and other affected community members.
 
"Although the conference was very difficult, I think it was very effective and meaningful. It brought everybody together in one place and let us see and experience each others’ humanity."--A Crime Victim

 "One of the things that made this conference so powerful for my son was that he had to face his victims’ anger and hurt. That had a lot of impact on him."--A Parent

"The most meaningful part was the contact with the victim, because I found out what harm I had caused the family."--A Young Offender
 
"The plan the young offender had to follow was far more thorough than any probation of jail time he would have received. Nice work."
--Law Enforcement Officer

"What was most meaningful was getting to tell my story and my experience to the young offender directly. I felt involved in a healing process rather than a process that was merely punitive."
--Crime Victim
 
"All the hate was gone after we talked."
--Juvenile Offender

Develop skills for building community, conflict resolution, and facilitating restorative dialogues.

Your Circle Keepers training session was life-enhancing for me. I now see how the circle itself can be the teacher. Thank you.”
—Training Participant

“The work we did in class was incredibly powerful…truly transformational. I felt much energy, clarity and joy afterwards. Thank you!”
—Restorative Justice Class participant

Build Classroom communities with a process for safely and productively discussing the real issues that affect the classroom. 

"Most of the time is seems like there are all these feelings that are locked up in a jail inside. 
But in circle we can open the jail doors and the feelings fly up out of our hearts like butterflies."
--A fourth grade student 
 
We have learned a way of having a dialogue that we as a culture did not have. The ability to take real life experiences on our campus and in our community and have a forum to work with them in a way that is transformative in the school is rare. The response to this process has been overwhelmingly positive.
--A charter school Director