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Transformative Justice for Everyday Harm

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Restorative circles can be powerful, but they’re not the only tool for addressing betrayal, bullying, and relational ruptures. “Transformative Justice for Everyday Harm” looks beyond one-time interventions, guiding participants toward deeper, systemic, and survivor-centered solutions that uphold non-carceral principles. By anchoring in community-based practices, we’ll examine how to hold accountable those who cause harm while fostering real opportunities for transformation and repair—without relying on punitive, policing-style responses. Participants will walk away with a clear sense of how to integrate transformative justice into daily life, ensuring that small conflicts or breaches of trust can be met with sustained healing, communal support, and genuine accountability.

Restorative circles can be powerful, but they’re not the only tool for addressing betrayal, bullying, and relational ruptures. “Transformative Justice for Everyday Harm” looks beyond one-time interventions, guiding participants toward deeper, systemic, and survivor-centered solutions that uphold non-carceral principles. By anchoring in community-based practices, we’ll examine how to hold accountable those who cause harm while fostering real opportunities for transformation and repair—without relying on punitive, policing-style responses. Participants will walk away with a clear sense of how to integrate transformative justice into daily life, ensuring that small conflicts or breaches of trust can be met with sustained healing, communal support, and genuine accountability.

Key Focus Areas

  1. Moving Beyond Traditional Circles

    • Understand the limits of relying solely on restorative circles, exploring how everyday conflicts need diverse, ongoing transformative practices.

  2. Survivor-Centered Accountability

    • Learn approaches that prioritize those harmed—acknowledging their autonomy, emotional safety, and voice—while encouraging perpetrators’ active engagement and personal growth.

  3. Non-Carceral, Community-Driven

    • Investigate alternatives to punishment or exclusion; discover how collaborative problem-solving, flexible roles, and empathy-based reflection cultivate deeper shifts in behavior and culture.

Who Should Attend?

  • K–12 & Higher Ed Teachers
    Tired of sending interpersonal issues up the chain or using standard discipline codes, seeking longer-lasting, relational transformations.

  • Youth Program Directors & Counselors
    Eager to implement daily transformative justice habits—addressing bullying, cliques, or ongoing interpersonal tensions.

  • Nonprofit & Community Leaders
    Looking to replace hierarchical, punitive measures with communal approaches that recognize power differentials and center survivors.

  • Activist & Grassroots Organizers
    Focused on building internal processes for accountability that avoid reliance on external policing, criminalization, or forced isolation.

Learning Objectives

  1. Distinguish Transformative from Restorative

    • Clarify how transformative justice addresses not only individual harm but also the systemic roots—like power imbalances or cultural norms.

  2. Develop Ongoing, Survivor-Centered Approaches

    • Gain methods for naming and acknowledging harm, supporting survivors’ dignity, and co-creating accountability that fosters real change rather than quick resolutions.

  3. Embed Community & Non-Carceral Principles

    • Learn to design structures that rely on communal agreements, capacity-building, and continuous reflection instead of punishment or expulsion.

Why It Matters

Everyday harms—like gossip, betrayal, or bullying—can erode trust and leave survivors feeling unheard, especially if “resolutions” are surface-level. By adopting transformative justice for these smaller yet impactful conflicts, communities strengthen their resilience and reliance on each other, rather than on carceral or top-down measures. “Transformative Justice for Everyday Harm” shows how consistent, survivor-forward, and system-aware processes can address relational breaches—ensuring real accountability and cultural shifts happen from within, rather than recourse to punishment or scolding.

Is This Workshop For You?

  • Seeing that one-time circles or apologies fail to alter underlying dynamics—leading to repeated harm or unresolved tension?
    We’ll discuss how ongoing, flexible, and relational approaches can keep accountability alive beyond a single session.

  • Concerned about overusing discipline referrals, suspension, or public shaming to address interpersonal rifts?
    Discover how community-led frameworks—like peer accountability teams, extended reflection, or skill-building—catalyze deeper healing.

  • Needing to affirm survivors’ voices but wary of stoking resentment or scapegoating those who caused harm?
    Explore strategies for balancing survivors’ needs with encouraging perpetrators to transform behaviors and rejoin the community ethically.

  • Committed to uprooting anti-Blackness, ableism, or other systemic oppressions that can shape cycles of harm?
    We’ll highlight the intersectional lens transformative justice brings—acknowledging structural power while focusing on communal synergy.

If these concerns resonate, “Transformative Justice for Everyday Harm” delivers the practical frameworks, conversation practices, and cultural shifts needed to foster non-carceral healing in everyday conflicts.