Skill- Building
By providing and sliding scale training opportunities for Black, Brown, low-income, and systems-impacted Oaklanders, we aim to make these skills accessible to all.
Healing Justice Training Offerings
We are growing our community’s capacity to cultivate strong relationships, prevent harm, and practice accountability with one another. We envision a world where we all have the skills to care for each other and to navigate crises when they occur.
If your group/organization is interested in receiving a private training, please reach out to Kari. We provide training at a sliding scale to BIPOC-led grassroots organizations, which allows us to share these resources with community free of charge.
Intro to Restorative Practices & Circle-Keeping
Restorative practices help us to deepen trust, understand each other’s stories, facilitate healing, and prevent harm.
Participants will gain an understanding of restorative justice as both a framework and set of practices. Participants will learn about community-building and healing through circle, learn experientially by sitting in circle, and building their own circle-keeping skills.
This is a two day training, four hours each day.
Holding Healing Circles & Practicing Accountability
Healing circles are processes that help community members come together after harm has occurred to explore needs, work toward accountability, and find healing.
Participants will strengthen their capacity to facilitate these processes and navigate harm within their own communities.
Participants will use reading, discussion, and experiential learning. Participants will also receive Restore Oakland Inc’s Healing Circle Handbook.
This is a three day training, four hours each day.
Growing Community Capacity for Healing Justice
We are building the capacity of AAPI residents to advance a vision of community safety that is rooted in multiracial solidarity and collective care.
- Through an ongoing partnership with Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) and Asian Law Caucus (ALC), Restore Oakland Inc is providing training and technical assistance to local AAPI organizers and community members – disseminating restorative practices, healing justice frameworks, and political education about mass incarceration. We collaborate with multilingual AAPI interpreters to make these healing justice concepts and tools more culturally resonant and widely accessible to non-English speaking AAPI communities.
- By developing shared analysis and strong relationships amongst AAPI and Black residents, we can combat the forces that divide us and distract us from the root causes of violence in our communities: economic exploitation, racial capitalism, and colonialism.
- Together, we are bridging gaps of understanding between communities that have historically been segregated and pitted against each other; we are learning how to organize more effectively across lines of race, language, and culture; and we are strengthening our movements for the long haul.