Restorative Practice Digital Badge

Restorative Practice Digital Badge

Gain an advanced understanding of restorative justice circles as a method of healing within our multifaceted communities. Through a graduate-level course, Transformative Healing in Families and Groups, working professionals will explore restorative justice circles as a method of healing within families and groups. Participants will learn the theories and basic skills of family and group assessment, intervention, and facilitation within an abolitionist framework, and will learn about and practice the foundational restorative justice skill of “circling.”

Participants in this course will:

1. Demonstrate basic group restorative justice practice facilitation
2. Apply family systems theory to group engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation
3. Self-analyze for biases and assumptions that may impact effective group facilitation
4. Integrate learning with an understanding of systemic oppression and implications for behavior and group dynamics
5. Summarize the difference between carceral and restorative justice approaches to families and groups
6. Learning activities are both synchronous and asynchronous, held fully online at meeting times convenient for working professionals.

Registration and Information

Register here.

Cost (non-credit): $500 (those interested in receiving graduate-level credit must contact the Registrar's Office: Alverno.Registrar@alverno.edu.)

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