Transformative justice skill sharing
“We need a million experiments. A bunch will fail. That’s good because we’ll have learned a lot that we can apply to the next ones.”
— Mariame Kaba
Building your practice
Transformative justice and tj practices are community rooted and community shared. The only thing it takes to be a tj practitioner is stepping forward to try.
This page gathers together some of the resources that I use every day, beginning with the free ones. Most importantly - it includes an invitation to connect with me so we can continue to transform our communities together.
Organisations to connect with in the UK
Transformative Justice
Resist And Renew / @RenewResist
Justice in Schools
No More Exclusions / @NExclusions
Radical Education Forum / @edu_radical
Coalition Of Antiracist Educators / @CARE2Liberate
Kids Of Colour / @KidsOfColourHQ
Just Education Matters / @bettaschooldays
Books
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Fumbling Towards Repair: A workbook for community accountability facilitators
Mariame Kaba & Shira Hassan
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Brick by Brick: How we build a world without prisons
Cradle Community
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We Will Not Cancel Us: And other dreams of transformative justice
adrienne maree brown
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Holding Change: The way of emergent strategy facilitation and mediation
adrienne maree brown
Set up a supper club or reading group
If it feels overwhelming to start this journey alone remember that tj is community culture and upskilling work. Consider, in the footsteps of BATJC, setting up a regular gathering for community members to reflect on questions of trust building, safety, and justice together. Make an ongoing commitment to building something new.
Time with me
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Free skill sharing / peer coaching
If you’re working to transform harm in your community, and you want someone to sound ideas, reflect, or problem solve with - then please reach out. TJ is a community rooted practice and we are doing it together.
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Paid consultancy
If you are from an organisation trying to navigate something sticky - we can have an introductory call. We would spend a little time getting to know one another, and your needs, and I might suggest some different ways forward. These would usually be very small frameworks, tools, or offers - and there is no obligation to follow up.
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Working practice group
As of July 2022, I am in the early stages of designing a working practice group. This group would be for practitioners who:
Want to build an abolitionist world, but aren't sure where to start.
Want to break cycles of conflict in their life.
Know that they need to do better at apologising, or forgiveness, but don’t know how.
Want a brave space to try out new ways of relating to other people.
Want to practice boundary setting, difficult conversations, apologies, and forgiveness.
We would meet to learn more about transformative justice principles such as trust, safety, apologies, boundaries, and negotiation. We would also hold space for one another to work through conflicts as they come up in our day to day.
There would be no homework - you only need to be present with us, and step into the world to experiment new ways of being.
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Let's be friends!
And, aside from all that, maybe it would just be nice to be connected to another practitioner muddling their way through all this mulch. You can also reach out for that too - I’d love to hear from you.