What we do.

Create Intentional Spaces for Healing & Dialogue

Restorative Conversations is a transformational community-building model that equips community leaders and organizers to strengthen awareness, activism, and advocacy. By integrating restorative justice principles with intentional, relationship-centered practices, this model creates supportive spaces for dialogue, healing, and collective action—especially for groups committed to uplifting young people.

We guide teams and organizations in hosting restorative circles that help participants listen deeply, speak truthfully, and build trust.

Shape Communities That Care for the Next Generation

Our model strengthens groups focused on education, youth engagement, and student support—helping congregations show up powerfully for young people through active engagement and civics. Students, families, educators, and community members come together to build trust, improve communication, and address issues that impact learning and well-being.

Integrate Education and Civics

We blend restorative practices with conversations about student success, civic responsibility, and community leadership, ensuring everyone plays a role in supporting young people.

Advance Justice, Accountability & Belonging

Every conversation centers social justice values of truth-telling, accountability, whole-person honoring, and equity. By aligning educational goals with civic engagement, we help communities move from discussion to shared action that improves outcomes for students and families.

The myth of community engagement is that racial, spiritual, and emotional harm can be overlooked and that time will heal old wounds.

Faith-Based Leadership Circles

These restorative Circles have a unique purpose to offer a ministry-centered approach to healing and reconnection—one that intentionally integrates biblical wisdom, spiritual reflection, and restorative practice. These circles acknowledge a truth many congregations know well: while ministry can heal, it can also hurt. In response, they create a safe, guided environment where ministry leaders, teams, and members can speak truthfully, listen deeply, and realign with the spiritual call that binds them together.

Each circle uses Bible-inspired prompts, themes, and reflections to help participants move through a process of reflection, release, and restoration. Through structured dialogue, individuals are invited to name experiences honestly, practice compassion, and rebuild trust within their faith community.

Every listening circle is tailored to the unique needs, culture, and rhythms of the congregation to ensure meaningful, relevant conversation. Together, these circles cultivate deeper understanding, foster spiritual wholeness, and strengthen the collective movement toward just, compassionate, and life-giving ministry.

Who It’s For.

Restorative Conversations is ideal for:

  • Pastors, ministers, and faith leaders

  • Youth and young adult ministries

  • Education and outreach teams

  • Community partners and family engagement ministries

  • Churches seeking to strengthen their social justice mission

Why It Matters.

Healing begins with people.
Restoration grows in the community. Transformation happens when we make room for honest and compassionate engagement.

Restorative Conversations help faith communities:

  • Strengthen relationships within the congregation

  • Rebuild trust across differences and generations

  • Support families and young people with empathy and clarity

  • Turn conversation into collective action

  • Lead justice-focused ministry with confidence and compassion

Join a Circle

Faith-Based Circles for Holy Disruptors

January- February 2026 Session

  • Session 1: School-to-Prison Pipelines, or Nexus?

    Faith as a Disruptor of Systems

    Explore how faith communities can interrupt cycles of inequity that funnel youth from classrooms to confinement.

  • Session 2: Caged & Called

    Restoring Youth with Purpose and Compassion

    Our young people are more than their mistakes. They are called by God to become. This session focuses on faith-based restoration for youth impacted by the juvenile justice system.

  • Session 3: Paul's Pathways: Biblical Reflections

    Scripture as a Source of Restoration

    Paul’s journey is a masterclass in transformation. This session uses Paul’s writings to prompt dialogue about confession, reconciliation, and redemption to connect biblical wisdom to modern ministry and restorative justice practices.

  • Session 4: Peculiar Practices of Punishment

    From Discipline to Discipleship

    Correction can be healing instead of harmful. In this conversation, leaders will unpack the difference between punishment and discipline — rethinking how we guide, parent, and lead across generations.

  • Session 5: Portraits of Power & Healing

    From Pain to Purpose

    Healing is sacred work. This session helps leaders explore how to name pain, nurture healing, and reclaim purpose — both personally and communally. Through guided reflection and storytelling, participants will uncover how faith transforms wounds into wisdom.

  • Session 6: Designing Possibilities: Ministry in Civics

    Blessed Are the Peacemakers

    This final circle invites leaders to imagine new ministry possibilities that make peace visible.
    Participants will design concepts for church-based dialogues, restorative programs, and school partnerships that embody reconciliation in action.

Sign Up for Upcoming Circles

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