A Restorative Approach to the 2025 Canada Games: Lessons Learned

In partnership with Sport Nova Scotia, the Restorative Lab led the design of a trailblaze initiative to take a restorative approach to team safety and wellbeing at the 2025 Canada Games in St. John’s, Newfoundland. This initiative was part of more than three years of on-going collaboration devoted to promoting and designing the adoption of a restorative pathway to address abuse in provincial sport. This report is a summary of learnings from this trailblaze.

The Long Road to System Transformation: Lessons from an RJ Practitioner in New York City

Erika Sasson is an attorney and practitioner who designs and facilitates restorative justice processes. Her work is focused on piloting restorative frameworks for complex harm, including for intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and homicide. She also consults on long-term projects with organizations in New York City and around the country who want to create restorative justice programming, or who need to navigate complex dynamics in pursuit of a healthier workplace. Erika’s work is anchored by her experiences learning directly from Native American peacemakers from across North America. Among her current projects, Erika is working with Violence Intervention Program—NYC’s only Latinx-led nonprofit focused on providing culturally-specific services to Latinx survivors of domestic and sexual violence—to create a localized restorative justice program tailored to the needs of their community. Erika is a 2023 recipient of The David Prize for extraordinary New Yorkers. Originally from Canada, Erika moved to NYC in 2009 and is raising a family with her husband Misha in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more or get in touch at erikasasson.com.

https://youtu.be/wU54dPA_NLs?feature=shared

Toward a Restorative Approach in Sport

Delivered by Jacob Glover on May 26, 2024 at 7:30 PM via Zoom.

Jacob Glover has a background in ancient philosophy, contemporary continental philosophy, and law. His interest in restorative justice took root in Prof. Jennifer Llewellyn’s seminars when he began thinking about the philosophical overlap between relational theory, restorative justice, ancient rhetoric, and network theory. Before returning to graduate school, he practiced corporate and property law. His graduate work focuses on taking a restorative approach to sport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSVCmi1d6o&ab_channel=RestorativeResearchInnovationandEducationLab

Final Report from National Restorative Justice Collaborative Learning Conference (NRCLC)

The National Collaborative Learning Conference 2022 was held October 2022 in Halifax, NS. The NRCLC engaged delegations from provinces, territories and the Federal level in a collaborative process to identify key elements and commitments required to advance and realize the potential of restorative justice to transform the approach to justice in Canada.

The convenors and facilitators of the 2022 NRCLC prepared this report, which provides background and an overview of the 2022 conference and shares insights, ideas and recommendations that emerged from the NRCLC. 

HEALING AND LEARNING AFTER HARM IN THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: THE POTENTIAL OF A RESTORATIVE APPROACH

Delivered on March 13, 2022 by Allison Kooijman.

Ali is a PhD Student in the School of Nursing at UBC Okanagan where she studies the contributions that a Restorative Approach stands to make in the healthcare context. Ali experienced harm as a patient which ended her career as a Licensed Practical Nurse. This experience, both as a former healthcare provider and patient, provides her with a unique lens that she brings to this space. Ali believes that transformation and reimagining of our healthcare system requires a collaborative effort and identifying a principled approach to serve as a foundation for doing so. Ali lives on the lands of the Syilx peoples in beautiful Coldstream, British Columbia

Read more of Ali’s work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Allison-Kooijman

Follow Ali on twitter: https://twitter.com/AllisonKooijma1

Kindness isn’t weakness- working together as a restorative community to tackle intractable problems

Holly Northam

Faculty of Health, School of Nursing

University of Canberra, Australia

International Fellow – Restorative Research, Innovation, & Education Lab 

Monday April 4, 2022, at 6:30 pm Atlantic Time via Zoom

This presentation will explore the challenges that I have encountered within our restorative community for principled relationships- and a flourishing community. Specifically in the context of colonised institutional structures that create potential conflicts of interest for restorative practice. I will discuss ideas that inform the next steps that we are taking to enable safe spaces for dialogue that contributes authentic restorative practice for positive change and societal healing.