RP@P Workshops and Trainings
Restorative Practices @ Penn can provide a suite of workshops and trainings for student groups, academic departments and programs, offices and teams, individual classes, and more. In addition to the options listed on this page, we can also create custom workshops to meet your individualized needs.
Available Workshops
Restorative Practices at Penn 101
This four-hour workshop orients participants in the history and philosophy of Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices.
How to Hold a Talking Circle
This four-part workshop will prepare participants to lead basic community building Circles and will set participants up to dive deeper into Circle work.
Restorative Practices Facilitator Training
This 24-hour training prepares participants to begin exploring Restorative Facilitation. Focused on skill building, this workshop is highly interactive and requires consistent participation. After this workshop, participants can begin to co-facilitate RJ processes with a more experienced partner.
Charged Questions and Difficult Conversations- A Restorative Practices Approach
This 4-hour training explores how to think about and respond to charged questions and difficult conversations, especially those rooted in personal or communal experiences of harm and bias. Rooted in a Restorative Justice perspective.
Custom Workshops
RP@P can provide custom workshops, adjusting length and content to your needs. Let us know what you are looking for and we do our best to work with you to plan a relevant experience.
Request a Workshop
If you are interested in any of these workshops, please use the link below to submit a request to our team! We need a minimum of two weeks notice on all requests, and cannot accommodate all requests. We hope to have the chance to work with you soon,
Interested in becoming part of the RP@P Facilitator Team?
If you are a Penn employee and are interested in becoming part of the RP@P facilitator team, please indicated your interest in our free 24-hour Restorative Practices Facilitator workshop. Held every summer, this workshop is limited to 15 participants a year and strives to bring together participants from across the campus.