Transformative Justice

Educating, advocating, and building anew.

 Reducing and preventing harm through just policies and systems.

Public Servant Coaching

If you are an elected official or government employee crafting or influencing policies or regulation, public servant coaching is available. Let’s make sure those are transformative policies and true systems of care. Or, if you just need someone to talk to who understands a bit about your world from the inside, please reach out. A sliding scale and some scholarships are available for historically marginalized folx.

Coaching & Interfaith Chaplaincy for Those Who Serve

  • Elected Officials - Make sure your policies are not creating harm. Sometimes, you just need someone to talk to who understands.

  • Government Workers - Caught in the middle of the written policy and the lived reality? Let’s brainstorm.

  • Non-profit leaders - You’re serving the public good without the title or limelight. Need a shoulder?

  • Partners and Families of Electeds - Need some coaching or spiritual guidance to manage the moment?

Consensus Facilitation & Consulting

So, you’ve got a great idea of how to help solve a public problem or “fix” a law. Then what? Get the collaborative supports you need with consensus-making processes and proposal-based project plans that can increase your odds of implementation.

Community Collaboration Assistance

  • Get consensus when you know it’s possible but don’t know how to get it.

  • Is your community stuck with a problem with too many diverging opinions?

  • Electeds, Lobbyists, & Advocates - Has your legislation stalled because no one can agree on the plan?

  • Executive Directors & Board Members - Use collaborative techniques that get you to consensus more quickly and with less conflict.

Interactive Advocacy Workshops

What is transformative justice and why is it important now? How can you influence a government if you don’t know how it works? Through interactive workshops, learn the ropes of civic processes, resources, and networks. Learn from a former state senator ways to influence elected officials and maximize your efforts with tips and techniques from an inside view.

Educate Before You Advocate

  • Advocates & Community Organizers - Have a say in the policy before it becomes law.

  • Concerned Constituents - Learn how the policymaking process works and how to get the attention of your elected officials.

  • Government Workers - Want to know what the electeds are really thinking?

  • Policy & Political Students - Know what they didn’t tell you in class.

Transformative Policy & Advocacy Writing

If you’ve got your concept but don’t know how to translate it into a written proposal that someone will actually read, then you might need strategic policy writing, social justice editing, or wordsmithing so you can speak the languages of “the government” and constituents. Words can make or break an idea from ever getting seen or heard. Let’s shorten the arc of justice as much as we can.

Strategically-Just Writing & Editing

  • For Advocates who know what they want to propose but want to know how to ask for it.

  • Non-Profits - Need help with a grant or proposal to get officials convinced in your favor?

  • Elected Officials - You’ve got the legal draft but need a short fact sheet to convince your colleagues to vote with you.

  • After the vote, how do you summarize for your clients or constituencies?

Restorative Practices

What do we really know about the land upon which we live, work, study, or gather? Restorative research includes investigative probing of land, peoples, laws, and systems within a historical context in order to make right relations today and into the future. This awareness and transparency can lead to restorative and transformative circles, which can activate personal, family, and community healing.

Restorative Research & Community Healing

  • Landowners - It may be time to unearth the hidden stories of the land and people who came before you.

  • Communities in search of healing - Community conversations and listening circles can help lead you to wholeness and right relations together.

  • Faith Leaders - Is it time for you and your congregants to make peace with the untold stories of the land beneath your church?

  • Educational Institutions - What can be done with the knowledge of historical harm on the land of your campus?

Not sure where to start? We’ll figure it out together.