What is Collective Voices?
 Collective Voices exists to help people reconnect, repair, and rebuild their relationships and communities. Our mission is to interrupt cycles of conflict, misunderstanding, isolation, and violence
while offering compassionate support through grief, loss, and life transitions.
Through focused, empathetic listening, and collaborative problem-solving,
we help people move forward together.

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Through our services and support, we strive to create an environment for increased understanding and trust
in order to strengthen relationships that may be challenged
by hurt, conflict, power dynamics, and differing perspectives.

 

Collective Voices offers a compassionate, trauma-informed, and culturally-relevant approach
to communication, safety, conflict, harm, and healing.

Our services include: individual grief support services; Grief & Loss Circles; community healing and response;
trainings, consulting, and implementation support around restorative practices programming
and peacebuilding fundamentals; and conflict & repair facilitation

 

Restorative practices (RP) are a philosophy, a set of values, a methodology,

and a radically transformational way of being in the world (as opposed to just being a curriculum.)
RP can be used both proactively to build trust, safety, and community,
and as a response to misunderstandings, isolation, grief, conflict, harm, and violence.


Peacemaking Circles are a the most common process used in restorative practices programming.

The values of RP lie at the heart of every process Collective Voices uses.

 

The work Collective Voices does is a critical response to the disruption of a healthy community. 
We help to rebuild the relational infrastructure necessary for organizations
and communities to thrive through conflict and change.

Our services are applicable in the following settings: workplaces settings of all types,
Tribal communities, First Responder agencies, individuals, families, couples, friendships,
governments, unions, and neighborhoods.

There is no replacement for healthy connection to address feelings of isolation, hopelessness, and insignificance.
Whether your community has endured a natural disaster, there is tension in your workplace, or your family feels unhealed.  Collectives Voices creates opportunities for people to come together
to talk, listen, grieve, celebrate, and be together. 

 

Our services are a significant response to an overconnected yet so very disconnected society.

 

Collective Voices honors the Zulu origins of 'Sawubona' and strives to practice it in our work and everyday lives. 

 

“In Zulu, a common greeting is the word ‘Sawubona.’  
It roughly translates to ‘I see you’, as in, ‘I acknowledge your presence.
By acknowledging you, I bring you into existence and your acknowledgement of me, brings me into existence.’
In Zulu, the failure to acknowledge others is to literally threaten their existence."

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"Most of us have been educated from birth to judge, compete, demand, and diagnose – to think and communicate in terms of ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ Thinking and interacting this way can create misunderstanding and a host of other problems, and ultimately brings us further from our naturally empathetic state.”       

~ Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher