Explore the principles and practical frameworks of restorative practice to heal communities, address systemic harm, and foster accountability. From building community to repairing harm, a four-session interactive training with Dr. Dianne Williams

Most trainings treat restorative practices and restorative justice as two separate subjects. This one doesn’t. Over four highly interactive sessions, Dr. Dianne Williams presents them as two ends of a single relational continuum: the proactive work of building and holding community at one end, the responsive work of repairing harm at the other.  She shows how the same relational mechanics run the entire span.

This is not a lecture series. You’ll sit in circles, not just learn about them. You’ll keep a circle, facilitate a restorative conversation, and be coached live as you do it. Seasoned practitioners and newcomers train side by side, with practice rounds deliberately pairing experience with fresh perspective so everyone leaves sharper. Between the two weekends, you’ll run a real relational experiment in your own context and bring it back, turning the training into a live practice cycle, not passive learning.

By the final session, the wall between “community-building” and “repairing harm” collapses, and you walk out able to act across the whole continuum.

1. Lead Trainer: Dr. Dianne Williams
2. Format: 4-Part Online Interactive Course (2 Weekends)
3. Dates & Time: October 24, 25, 31 & November 1 | Saturdays & Sundays, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET. Please use the Time Zone Converter to determine when this training will be in your time zone.
4. Investment: $500 (MBBI Members) | $700 (Non-Members)
5. Register here.

Bio of the Trainer:

Dr. Williams brings a wide range of international conflict-related training experience. She has a strong background in the Caribbean and Latin America, in particular around criminology, conflict resolution, mediation, restorative practices, restorative justice and cultural competency.   In her previous life she was a Criminologist and Consultant and has done coursework at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, the International Institute for Restorative Practices as well as the National Defense University William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, where she is a rostered adjunct instructor.  She is a Clinically Certified Criminal Justice Specialist, a Certified Sentence Mitigation Specialist, a Certified Social and Behavioral Research Investigator and a Certified Mediator.  She is a Licensed Trainer of Trainers in Restorative Practices, a Crime Prevention through Community Engagement and a Crime Prevention through Environmental Design specialist. Dr. Williams has numerous publications and co-authored the 2012 United Nation’s Human Development Report for Trinidad and Tobago. She holds a PhD, an MBA and an MSc. Her areas of expertise include Restorative Practices, Restorative Leadership, Transformative Mediation and Citizen Legitimacy. Dr. Williams is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Restorative Practices in Columbia University’s Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, School of Professional Studies.