Are you passionate about transforming education?
Restorative Justice provides guiding principles and a shift in our way of being that helps us learn to be with ourselves and each other in a way that catalyzes change.
Together we can cultivate not just classrooms, but entire schools and universities where people exhale upon entering.
Education Liberation, rooted in the beliefs and practices of Restorative Justice, is designed for people to lay the groundwork for a total transformation of the system, starting from within ourselves.
Recently, I heard a teacher say: "We need to go get our students." Yes. First we need to go get ourselves.
What would it take to get there?
Restorative Justice (RJ) Starter Kit
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Looking for some soothing, slow medicine that speaks from the heart of Restorative Justice (RJ)? Dip your toes in the water of RJ with these short nuggets that help us shift our way of being with ourselves and each other.
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Tiny Courses
Details on the tiny price & tiny time commitment coming your way soon!
Here are a few tiny course ideas I am brewing up:
The Stories - & Their Resulting Impact - of School
Hierarchies, Hierarchies Everywhere: Caste Systems And YOU
Restorative Justice Teachings: We Are Profoundly Interconnected
“Schools” of the Future
RJ Full Course
Spring Dates Coming Soon
Singular and innovative; this is the circle where we go deep and learn about restorative justice by experiencing it with one another. In this course we explore our own inner landscapes with support and guiding wisdom from land-based practices, nervous system research, somatic practices, poetry, and meditation. We learn tools to navigate fear, anxiety, self-doubt and to amplify our own inner voices so that we can then act in our educational institutions and the world from a deeper place.
All calls are recorded.
My Approach: To change the educational landscape, we must start by changing our internal landscapes.
Basic
1) Explore your own inner landscape to:
Deepen in presence
Cultivate self-compassion
Become the architect of your own neurobiology
With support and guiding wisdom from your relationship with the land, nervous system research, somatic practices, poetry, and guided meditations.
Intermediate
2) Internalize the framework of Restorative Justice in Education (RJE) by being in community with each other in circle.
Along the way we:
Rethink the notion of hierarchies
Explore entrenched caste systems in our culture and how they affect belonging in our schools.
Advanced
3) To then revitalize systems together and in the context of place.
We recommend:
An implementation guide based on decades of best-practice implementation in schools.
When we gloss over the first step, as is often the case in RJE implementation, we risk replicating existing hierarchies.
"The unconventional approach that Abby takes with some meditation, poetry, a thoughtful theme and deeply honest sharing with every member took me quite by surprise. I feel that the group reaches a level of honesty and vulnerability that fosters growth and a profound level of introspection. I would highly recommend this course to teachers of all levels of experience - had I done a course like Abby's earlier in my career, I think it would have made me a much better listener and more compassionate 'authority.'"
Sean E., teacher
Next Cohort for RJ Full Course:
Spring Dates Coming Soon!
Lowest Cost: $500
Middle Cost: $750
Actual Cost of Program: $950
Session times are weekly for 90 minutes in duration over a span of 8 weeks on Zoom.
Groups are capped at 9 participants.
See Program Specifics for more details.
*For Canadians and Americans, pay the price listed in the currency you earn. For those in other countries, contact me. See my Financial Accessibility page for more details, including ‘The Green Bottle’ graphic, that may help you determine where you fall on the payment scale.
About Abby
I am a connector and playful disruptor at the leading edge of what schools can be. I have created a carefully curated experience based on the following beliefs:
There is no neutral.
We are either allowing love or we are restricting and calling forth fear (shout-out to reverend angel kyodo williams). We are bound up in each other’s collective liberation.
The true self in everyone is good, wise, and powerful.
This is the first core assumption of Restorative Justice and helps us align our behaviour in the world with our truer, deeper selves.
The world is profoundly interconnected. This belief, the second core assumption of Restorative Justice, reminds us that there are no throw-away kids or people. “I am because we are”, or “ubuntu”, means we are each fundamentally a part of the whole.