Collective Voices' mission is to support people in reconnecting, repairing, and rebuilding 
relationships
and communities; to interrupt cycles of conflict, misunderstanding, isolation, and violence,
and to lend a focused,
empathetic listening ear, problem-solve current barriers, and together find a path forward. 

 

Through our services, 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: grief support services, and trainings and consulting
around restorative practices (RP) and peacebuilding fundamentals. 

 

Restorative practices 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, conflict, harm, and violence.


Peacemaking Circles (all types) are a the most common process used in restorative practices.

The values of RP lie at the heart of every process we use.

 

The work Collective Voices does is a critical response to the disruption of a healthy community.
Our services are applicable in the following settings: Tribal communities, workplace, individuals, families, couples, friendships, neighborhoods & the Streets, governments, and unions.

There is no replacement for healthy connection to address feelings of isolation and insignificance.
Whether your community has endured a natural disaster, your workplace feels tense, 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