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Restorative Justice Update
RJ & Circle Process Seminar
On July 23, SEEDS hosted the first Intro to Restorative Justice and Circle seminar at the Berkeley Public Library (central branch). Diana Gray, SEEDS Board Member, openned up the seminar with a brief synopsis of SEEDS' work. This was followed by an informative lecture on RJ given by Professor Julie Shackford-Bradley; take a look at the presentation slides here. Denis Curtis from Catholic Charities closed the restorative justice info portion of this seminar by presenting a case study of a recent Restorative Group Conference (RGC) involving youth from Richmond High School.
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After the presentations, volunteer Yari Sandel led a community building circle for all attendees. For many, this was their first circle experience. Some were shocked that they felt safe enough to share so much in circle with strangers.
Special thanks to Jonathan Bradley, RJ Community Outreach Coordinator, and to the volunteer energy that made this happen: Harriet Whitman Lee, Will Pasley, Julie Shackford-Bradley, Yari Sandel, and Diana Gray (Board Member).
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Upcoming Event
Cultivating Common Ground - Restoring our Schools, From Empathy to Community October 20th, 2011
Nile Hall, Preservation Park (668 13th Street, Oakland, CA)
Breakfast: 7:30am - 9:00am
Seminar: 10am-1pm 
This year's event will focus on the restorative justice work currently being done in Alameda County Schools. SEEDS is happy to announce that this year we will honor Rita Alfred, Restorative Justice Consultant for Oakland Unified School District, for her outstanding restorative justice work in Oakland schools. Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz will be joining us from the MCC Office on Justice & Peacebuilding as our keynote speaker. She is the Co-Director of MCC Office of Justice & Peacebuilding who Co-Authored of The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools. Register here to get your tickets early. More details will follow soon! |
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Upcoming Trainings
Small Claims Law Training
August 16, 2011
SEEDS Berkeley Office (1968 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702)
6pm - 10pm
Attention Small Claims Mediators! We now have a date set for our Small Claims Law Training. This course is REQUIRED for all of you who are not currently practicing attorneys in California. If you are a practicing attorney in CA, you are welcome to join us. We highly encourage everyone to make it to this class. There is no make-up class planned and the county requires you to have had this training.
Mattie Robertson and Tom Surh will be leading the class and they have a very interesting evening planned!
Contact Mark Baril if you have any question at mark@seedscrc.org.
The Unknown Messages -Body Language
August 24, 2011
SEEDS Berkeley Office (1968 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702)
6pm - 10pm
Cost: SEEDS Family Members (volunteers) - $10.00, Non-Family Members - $35.00
Register here
Have you ever intuitively felt that what a person is saying is not what they really mean? If so, you were probably right, as 93% of all interpersonal communication is received through non-verbal signals. The concept of 'intuition' is often our way of explaining unknown nonverbal signals that we haven't yet learned to interpret.
This workshop will give you an awareness of how we are impacted by body language as well as how you can align your nonverbal signals to help you get your message through. The skills that are trained are beneficial for professionals who wish to improve their ability to deepen the understanding of people around us as well as the ability to influence them.
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This summer SEEDS is working diligently to provide conflict resolution services in the community! Our restorative justice program is developing a restorative practices curriculum for future trainings, our training program has four trainings scheduled for August alone, our community mediation program is wrapping up the On the Same Page training for mediators and our courts mediation program is hosting a Small Claims Law training next week!