You're Not Alone
Many communities, families, and organizations are currently navigating deep strain: fractured communication, interpersonal conflict, polarization, distrust, overwhelm, and disconnection.
These pressures affect our schools, workplaces, public institutions, and the social fabric that holds communities together.
We’re here to help. Restorative Justice Institute provides services and support to help people navigate conflict and foster environments where everyone can thrive.
We are a nonprofit organization helping individuals, organizations, and communities create lasting change. Our services are relational, embodied, and tailored to needs.
We create educational experiences that transform, blending practical tools and deep, relational skill-building for lasting change and growth
Relational, personalized, and flexible guidance helping individuals and groups to navigate conflict, open possibilities, and forge paths forward
Creating the conditions for honest dialogue, accountability, and repair through techniques that increase connection, understanding, and meaningful action
Moving beyond positional negotiation to address harm, power, and impact. We create space for accountability, mutual understanding, and agreements that support healthier relationships and lasting change
Designing restorative systems that are trauma-informed, equity-centered, and responsive to real-world complexity, we work with clients to change culture and create new, healthier patterns of being and relating
Community of Practice
The Restorative Justice Institute (RJI) hosts a values-aligned Community of Practice, a “bench” of practitioners who take on cases and projects in training, consultation, facilitation, and field-building.
Innovation Center
The Innovation Center is RJI’s hub for research, creativity, and collaborative learning. It brings together practitioners, scholars, and community leaders to advance restorative justice through inquiry and exploration.

Restorative justice is the art of tending to fractured relationships, transforming conflict, and building environments where everyone can thrive.

The Hidden Costs of Workplace Conflict
The Hidden Costs of Workplace Conflict What unresolved conflict costs organizations, people, and communities — and what high-performing teams do differently EXECUTIVE BRIEF • AUGUST 2026 Workplace conflict isn’t always apparent on a balance sheet. Its costs show up somewhere

More Than a Mentorship Program: Boosting Student Belonging with Briana Mangram
In 2023, inside the halls of Ellenville Elementary, the sixth graders all said the same thing in their classrooms: “Ms. Mangram, I’m terrified of going to the Junior/Senior High School.” Despite the many classroom circles, teacher and administrator discussions, and
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