Designed for those interested in strengthening relationship-building skills, this training will provide opportunities for participants to experience activities as a participant, practice games and teambuilders facilitation, and receive feedback from the group.

Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 from 4:00PM to 7:00PM PT (In-person)

Cost: $115 per person

Come experience an interactive introduction to Restorative Justice! In this 2-hour session, you will learn about the foundations of the work, and experience a Restorative Justice Circle. This workshop is designed for people interested in learning more about restorative practices, or who want a refresher on the guiding values of restorative justice work.

Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026 from 2:00pm-4:00pm PT

Cost: $85 per person

Led by Confluence Rising's adult education team, participants will explore how Restorative Justice values naturally overlap with Juvenile Justice work and learn more strategies to put those values into action with young people.

*Requires Community Building Training as prerequisite.

Tuesday - Thursday, 6/23 thru 6/25 from 9am-4pm each day.

Our in-depth 3-day Harm & Conflict Facilitator Training will take your Restorative Practices to the next level in situations where harm has occurred. Participants will learn specific strategies to address harm and conflict in restorative ways that center relationships and minimize exclusion. Building on our Community Building Training, this advanced skill-building session will help you unpack conditioned conflict responses, roleplay specific harm scenarios, and lead Harm & Conflict circles to give you firsthand practice with restorative responses. All participants will receive a Harm & Conflict Handbook during the training. This training is especially recommended for all those involved in any aspect of creating policies around or implementing disciplinary practices.

*Requires Community Building Training as prerequisite.

Tuesday - Thursday, 6/23 thru 6/25 from 9am-4pm each day.

Our in-depth 3-day Harm & Conflict Facilitator Training will take your Restorative Practices to the next level in situations where harm has occurred. Participants will learn specific strategies to address harm and conflict in restorative ways that center relationships and minimize exclusion. Building on our Community Building Training, this advanced skill-building session will help you unpack conditioned conflict responses, roleplay specific harm scenarios, and lead Harm & Conflict circles to give you firsthand practice with restorative responses. All participants will receive a Harm & Conflict Handbook during the training. This training is especially recommended for all those involved in any aspect of creating policies around or implementing disciplinary practices.

*Requires attendance at Confluence Rising’s Community Building Training as prerequisite.

Tuesday - Thursday, 6/23 thru 6/25 from 9am-4pm each day.

Our in-depth 3-day Harm & Conflict Facilitator Training will take your Restorative Practices to the next level in situations where harm has occurred. Participants will learn specific strategies to address harm and conflict in restorative ways that center relationships and minimize exclusion. Building on our Community Building Training, this advanced skill-building session will help you unpack conditioned conflict responses, roleplay specific harm scenarios, and lead Harm & Conflict circles to give you firsthand practice with restorative responses. All participants will receive a Harm & Conflict Handbook during the training. This training is especially recommended for all those involved in any aspect of creating policies around or implementing disciplinary practices.

Led by Confluence Rising's adult education team, participants will explore the tool of Motivational Interviewing as a strategy to encourage empowered behavior change. Centered in values of autonomy and possibility, Motivational Interviewing can help us release what's not ours while still supporting others in being their best selves.

Led by Confluence Rising's adult education team, in this session, we will discuss how our nervous systems get activated by stressful situations, challenging emotions, and activation of our traumas. We will then explore a variety of grounding strategies to soothe ourselves and help us view powerful emotions as a source of generative growth, both for us and our teams.

To uplift the power of love as a force for justice, we’re hosting a Love Day celebration at our office in Long Beach.

Led by Confluence Rising's adult education team, participants will reflect on their own conflict styles using Confluence Rising's communication framework. We will explore what can make conflict feel uncomfortable and leave with tools to increase about comfort and ability to engage in healthier conflict with friends, family, peers and colleagues, especially during stressful times.

We’re excited to celebrate Pride together as Confluence Rising! Adults, children and youth are welcome to join our walking team. Youth & children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Youth 15 - 17 can join on your own with parent/guardian consent.

This 2-day experiential Community Building Training will help you start building your own Restorative Justice practice in your workplace, community, or classroom. We will reflect on our own communication and discipline styles, learn what makes our practices authentically restorative, and engage in skill-building around teambuilding and leading circles. If you are interested in applying restorative practices and leading this work in your own life, this foundational training is for you. Participants leave with concrete activity plans, ready to facilitate on their own. All participants will receive a Community Building Handbook during the training.

This 2-day experiential Community Building Training will help you start building your own Restorative Justice practice in your workplace, community, or classroom. We will reflect on our own communication and discipline styles, learn what makes our practices authentically restorative, and engage in skill-building around teambuilding and leading circles. If you are interested in applying restorative practices and leading this work in your own life, this foundational training is for you. Participants leave with concrete activity plans, ready to facilitate on their own. All participants will receive a Community Building Handbook during the training.

Join us for the Youth Leadership Mixer, a space for youth to connect and grow together! We’ll build community, explore identity, and create artwork together. Lunch & snacks are provided.

This training introduces basic trauma theory and the embodied effects of traumagenic experiences while providing opportunities to connect with personal and collective resiliency practices. We will explore key principles fundamental to a trauma-sensitive approach and engage Restorative Practices as a responsive modality. This training includes self-reflection, storytelling, dialogue, and concept presentations.

Everyone has biases and assumptions that we may not be aware of, and guide our thoughts, feelings, and actions. In this final training session, participants will explore how these biases form and sustain, and in the form of microaggressions, create isolation, disrespect, and inequities. Participants will also identify real ways to begin to interrupt biases in their own work relationships with peers, partners and communities.

Establishing conflict as both inevitable and an opportunity for growth, this 3-session virtual training series will support participants in creating a productive, trust-building culture of conflict and accountability. By exploring individual and organizational patterns around communication, conflict norms, and how harm is handled, participants will create an essential foundation to support deeper future engagement with each other.

Join Confluence Rising for a day of learning how to create an equitable and inclusive workplace.

Join us for our in-person Conscious Classrooms Facilitator Training this February 2026! If you are passionate about and interested in facilitating student workshops on racial, gender, and social justice, this training is for you!

*Please Note:

This training is for people 18+ who are able to facilitate for our Conscious Classrooms program during regular school hours.

Folks must attend all 3 training sessions to facilitate for Conscious Classrooms.

This training is in-person and FREE. Light breakfast and lunch will be provided for all 3 days.

Establishing conflict as both inevitable and an opportunity for growth, this 3-session virtual training series will support participants in creating a productive, trust-building culture of conflict and accountability. By exploring individual and organizational patterns around communication, conflict norms, and how harm is handled, participants will create an essential foundation to support deeper future engagement with each other.

Please note this is a 3-day training: Thursdays, February 12, 19 and 26 from 10am - 4pm each day.

Join us for our in-person Conscious Classrooms Facilitator Training this February 2026! If you are passionate about and interested in facilitating student workshops on racial, gender, and social justice, this training is for you!

*Please Note:

This training is for people 18+ who are able to facilitate for our Conscious Classrooms program during regular school hours.

Folks must attend all 3 training sessions to facilitate for Conscious Classrooms.

This training is in-person and FREE. Light breakfast and lunch will be provided for all 3 days.

Establishing conflict as both inevitable and an opportunity for growth, this 3-session virtual training series will support participants in creating a productive, trust-building culture of conflict and accountability. By exploring individual and organizational patterns around communication, conflict norms, and how harm is handled, participants will create an essential foundation to support deeper future engagement with each other.

Please note this is a 3-day training: Thursdays, February 12, 19 and 26 from 10am - 4pm each day.

Join us for our in-person Conscious Classrooms Facilitator Training this February 2026! If you are passionate about and interested in facilitating student workshops on racial, gender, and social justice, this training is for you!

*Please Note:

This training is for people 18+ who are able to facilitate for our Conscious Classrooms program during regular school hours.

Folks must attend all 3 training sessions to facilitate for Conscious Classrooms.

This training is in-person and FREE. Light breakfast and lunch will be provided for all 3 days.

The Building Bridges Leadership Academy (BBLA) is designed for young adult and adult allies (18+ and out of high school) who are interested in volunteering for our youth programs and who would like to build foundational skills for social justice facilitation rooted in restorative values. Young adults interested in becoming Youth Mentors must attend this program to be eligible to return to camp.

Leaders moving toward Restorative Justice are often challenged with how to address harm in ways that both promote accountability while moving away from punishment and shame. Gaps often exist in our policies, procedures, and practices when we need more structure than the motivational interviewing that Restorative Dialogue offers us while at the same time responding to situations where a full Harm & Conflict Circle process may not be available or the best fit.

This workshop will support participants in defining the differences between punishment, consequences, and accountability, and to reflect on where they can take action in better aligning their own policies and practices with Restorative Justice values.