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Restorative Processes and Election Politics II

November 2, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT
$50 – $110

Facilitated by the DC Peace Team
Saturday, November 2, 2024: 10 am to 12pm, EST
Location: ONLINE (Zoom link provided after you register and about 24 hrs. before the session)**
For questions contact Martha Cooper at mcoop08@gmail.com

Restorative Justice, or “RJ,” is a philosophy and set of practices that engage the community in building relationships and repairing harm through inclusive dialogue, deep understanding, and shared power.

This session will be held as a space for attendees to openly share how the upcoming election is impacting how they show up in relational spaces. This space will NOT be an exchange for political ideology, rather a safe place for expression and how the partisan divide is affecting us respectively. The space will also allow for reflection on how we can utilize restorative processes as a means to move towards personal and interpersonal healing using safe and effective communication.

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Contribution:
We request payment of $50-$110 to support our work and help us better serve the community.

After completing the registration below, please submit payment today– https://ssl.charityweb.net/dcpeaceteam/training.htm; or checks can be written out to DC Peace Team and mailed to Eli McCarthy, 7305 Baylor Ave. College Park, MD 20740.

This session is provided by the DC Peace Team, which empowers ordinary civilians to increasingly serve their communities particularly as nonviolent peacekeepers, and by extension as peacemakers and peacebuilders. The DC Peace Team lives this mission by deploying unarmed civilian protection and accompaniment units, providing training in various nonviolent skills, and facilitating dialogues and restorative justice approaches.
For more information about the DC Peace Team, please visit our website at www.dcpeaceteam.org

Facilitator(s):

Martha Cooper comes to the DC Peace Team with an extensive international background and keen interest in the non-violent resolution of conflict.  She finds restorative practice circles very powerful. These circles create space to share one’s story and discover healing. Her interest in conflicts around aging blossomed 10 years ago. She believes that restorative practice can help families with these conflicts. She earned an MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. She has worked as a substitute teacher in local public schools and trained middle and high school students at Peace Summits for Fairfax County Public Schools.

Gail Stallings (she/her) is a retired special education teacher and resource specialist. She currently clerks the Gainesville Quakers Social Justice Outreach Committee, and facilitates Cultural Orientation Sessions for the Greater Gainesville International Center Refugee Resettlement Agency. Her longstanding commitment to human rights, peace building, and nonviolent communication, have included facilitating workshops, threshing sessions, worship sharing, and healing circles in addition to having conversations across political differences with the United Vision Project, and working with election protection. Gail has been a dedicated member of the Restorative Justice family of the DC Peace Team since 2020, and has begun co-facilitating this past year.

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