Free Masterclass
Re-entry to our humanity
What Restorative Justice can teach us about transforming schools and universities into places of belonging, connection, and purpose, starting from within ourselves.
Led by Abby Karos
Wednesday, Jan 17
7 - 8:00 pm EDT
In this free, interactive workshop
You’ll experience:
The heart of Restorative Justice in a class designed to slow you down and reconnect with yourself and others using circle work, poetry, and embodiment exercises.
Along the way you'll learn:
About the 7 core principles of Restorative Justice
Why Restorative Justice is vital to helping us transform education, including in areas such as: staff wellbeing and retention, belonging/equity, and an increasing deficit in social and emotional skills among youth.
A vision for school transformation that includes:
recognizing the impact of school
decolonizing our bodies
redesigning schools along the lines of biomimicry
All within a framework of Restorative Justice.
*The workshop will be recorded and sent to registrants following the event.*
Restorative Justice represents a lasting culture shift because it’s a shift in our way of being. With my approach, we take time with the first ripple of relationship: that with the self.
Why do we do that?
Because we carry the dysfunctions of our culture in our bodies - much of which we need to unlearn.
Why is teaching among top professions in North America for burnout? Why are so many kids dissatisfied with school?
My take on this is because the design of schools works against the notion that we are:
a. holistic beings who
b. want to learn.
I believe that:
No one - or their gifts - is more important than any other.
True education is a landscape encountered through relationships.
We need tools to know how to help everyone - including ourselves - belong.
Understanding the web of our interconnectedness is what gives us the strength to resist and transform the system to one that is rooted in relationships.
This class is for you if…
You’re not quite sure what Restorative Justice is, but you feel a pull toward it.
You feel the growing polarization and sense of disconnection in our schools and culture more broadly.
You know schools and universities are not providing a space for everyone to belong.
You want to transform systems of education.
You feel alone in making change.
Rosalind McCanny, Outdoor Education Teacher
“Abby guided us down a magical - and masterly curated- path. She wove a beautiful tapestry- leading us to reconnect with ourselves so that we can offer a space for students to truly be themselves and hold space for each other.”
School Shift-Disturber & Entrepreneur
Through my decades of experience in attempting to re-imagine and transform education, I have come to realize that the solution lies at a deeper level. Shifting school culture requires a change within each of us. My goal with Education Liberation is to meet the system, and the people within it, where they're at and then together transform the entire foundation so that it aligns with how human beings learn best; prepares young people for the world they are inheriting; helps young people discover their gifts to the world; and provides a balm for the nervous system along the way.
