Restorative Justice Training and Retreat
May 25th to June 1st, 2024

Seven Nights
at the Mar de Jade Retreats & Wellness Resort, Mexico

The Restorative Center's training provides an experience-based understanding of TRC’s community based model of Restorative Justice. Our trainings are engaging, lively and ever-evolving. We utilize theory-based lectures, the interactive circle experience, skill development, mock circles, as well as small and large group discussions.

This course is open to newcomers to TRC, as well as to trained Circle Keepers who would like to deepen their foundations in the work. Advance topics and workshops will be integrated into the week long training.

If you have questions, please contact us at team@therestorativecenter.org.

Join us.

**•Rejuvenate your spirit** with daily guided meditations and yoga classes• Receive training as a Circle Keeper and learn how to hold sacred space for others to unravel conflict, rebuild community, and develop resilience• Learn about talking pieces, the phases of a circle, the use of prompts & how to use storytelling to develop empathy and share vulnerability **• Develop skills** in communication and circle keeping **•Watch a sunset**

Mar de Jade Wellness Resort

is nestled between the tropical jungle and the pristine sandy beach of Chacala, Mexico. To read more about our retreat space, click here. Watch videos about this extraordinary venue:

Mar de Jade Experience

Mar de Jade Community Projects

Mar de Jade Story

Accommodation Cost & Tuition

Tuition:
$1,290 (includes daily meditation & yoga classes, Restorative Justice Foundations Training, Advanced RJ Workshops, and Self-Care Workshops). Payments can be made using links in form here.

Accommodations & Meals:
TRC participants will be offered a group discount rate. Accommodations costs will range from $990 - $2300 for eight days and seven nights depending on room availability and preference. The accommodation rate includes three freshly cooked meals per day including fresh food from Mar de Jade’s 18-acre organic farm.

Airfare and transportation to the retreat are not included in the retreat cost. Mar de Jade will help arrange the transfers to and from the Puerto Vallarta Airport. Trip insurance is not included but highly recommended.

Is this training for you?

In these challenging times where our anger and hurt is easily available to us, and our desire to do something is paramount, the yin model of restorative justice that TRC teaches is harder to access.

During the training, we ask you to leave your personal agenda at the door, to surrender results, and to be trained in a model where we hold space for everyone. One can see how counter intuitive this can feel in these times that already require so much of us. We are confident that TRC’s model is a path forward but as with most journeys the work begins within.

This is all to say: we will require a pre-participation phone call to make sure our method is something you want to spend time learning. The training group will be kept small, and if you have trained with us before: please join us again. We have a lot to share.

Space will be limited to 15 participants.

Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns, team@therestorativecenter.org.

Program Schedule

Day One - Saturday, May 25th
2pm: Check-in
5pm: Restorative Yoga
6:30pm: Dinner

Day Two - Sunday, May 26th
7:30am: Meditation & Breathing
8:30am: Breakfast
10am: Restorative Justice Workshop: The Circle Experience
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Free Time
5pm: Self-Care Workshop
6:30pm: Dinner

Day Three - Monday, May 27th
7:30am: Meditation & Breathing
8:30am: Breakfast
10am: Restorative Justice Workshop: The Sun/Moon Chart; Practicing prompts
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Free Time
5pm: Self-Care Workshop: Shadow Work for Circle Keepers
6:30pm: Dinner

Day Four - Tuesday, May 28th
7:30am: Meditation & Breathing
8:30am: Breakfast
10am: Local Farm Visit (optional)
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Restorative Justice Workshop: The Elements
5pm: Self Care Workshop: De-escalation
6:30pm: Dinner

Day Five - Wednesday, May 29th
7:30am: Meditation & Breathing
8:30am: Breakfast
10am: Free Time for Excursions (optional)
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Restorative Justice Workshop: Circle Systems (XS-XL)
5pm: Restorative Yoga
6:30pm: Dinner

Day Six - Thursday, May 30th
7:30am: Meditation & Breathing
8:30am: Breakfast
10am: Local Market Visit (optional)
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Restorative Justice Workshop: Mock Circles
5pm: Restorative Justice Workshop: Mock Circles (continued)
6:30pm: Dinner

Day Seven - Friday, May 31st
7:30am: Meditation & Breathing
8:30am: Breakfast
10am: Free Time/ one-on-one sessions with Shailly (optional)
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Restorative Justice Workshop: Closing Circle & Circle Keeper Code
5pm: Restorative Yoga
6:30pm: Dinner

Day Eight - Saturday, June 1st
7:30am: Meditation & Breathing
8:30am: Breakfast
10am: Check-out

Daily schedule is subject to the discretion of the trainer and could be changed based on the needs of the group. Some optional excursions have an added fee payable to the resort.