On Everyday Restorative Justice (Livestream)

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Amidst today’s uncertainty and social unrest, the principles of restorative justice can provide a framework to move forward with empathy, trust, and accountability. Practiced in classrooms, community centers, and prisons, restorative justice focuses on learning models of repair and accountability that create conditions for trust and vulnerability.

As a cultural worker and restorative justice facilitator, Tatiana Chaterji uses personal narrative and embodied practice to deepen conversations across differences to cultivate humanizing relationships. She explores ways of applying cultural and ancestral technologies within systems that extract from us and violate our humanity and asks: what does it look like to invite softness amidst trauma, social neglect, and oppression?

Join Tatiana for an empowering conversation exploring the principles and tools of restorative justice. Sharing insights from her latest book, Everyday Restorative Justice, and her work as one of the first restorative justice facilitators in the Oakland Unified School District, Tatiana discusses robust prevention and culture-building through students’ personal and conceptual exploration of pain, loss, oppression, and other emotionally charged topics.

Whether you are a teacher, mentor, leader, or facilitator, this conversation will illuminate ways to incorporate lessons from restorative justice and explore exercises that foster tenderness, self-reflection, and skillful attention on how to “make it right.”

Tatiana Chaterji, MFA served as one of the first RJ facilitators in Oakland Unified School District, bringing her background of prison programming and youth organizing into the classroom. As part of the Artistic Circle at California Shakespeare Theater, with support from California Arts in Corrections, Tatiana produced her curriculum A Mirror, A Threshold, A Song: Medicines of Healing in Theater Arts and Restorative Justice in 2021. Her new book with Teachers College Press, Everyday Restorative Justice: Moving from Crisis Response to Positive School Culture, attempts to bridge high-level harm response and K12 education.

Tatiana treasures her time in the Drama Therapy program at CIIS, having returned to offer instruction on Theatre of the Oppressed. She proudly serves as Co-Director of Partners for Collaborative Change, a network of Popular Educators who support social movements through Participatory Action Research, liberation arts, and conflict transformation. As an artist, she learned theater in the streets of her community, specifically with the Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association and Kolkata collectives practicing Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre and Jerzy Grotowski’s Poor Theatre. She trains in martial arts and uses fight choreography to flip scripts of social dominance.

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Ticket holders will have access to an ad-free replay of the event for one month after the live event, after which unlimited viewing with ads will be available. Portions of the audio will also be released on our podcast. Only registered ticket holders who choose to watch live can participate in the chat and Q&A.

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All tickets and add-ons purchased for this event are nonrefundable.