Collective
Voices
reconnecting, repairing, and rebuilding
Long-Term Projects
Collective Voices offers innovative program design
by partnering with you!
Long-term training and consulting projects can take on many forms. We collaborate with a wide range of partners to assess your needs and tailor support accordingly.
Our Restorative Implementation Framework
Collective Voices offers innovative program design by partnering with you!
Long-term training and consulting projects can take on many forms. We train and consult and offer facilitation around topics including:
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Conflict & Repair and/or Transitions facilitation and support
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Support during Celebrations
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Training, consulting, & implementation support in:
- Restorative practices & peacemaking programming
- Burnout and compassion fatigue
- De-escalation techniques
- Organizational development
- Leadership and trust-building
We collaborate with a wide range of partners to assess your needs
and tailor support accordingly.
Phase 1: The Diagnostic & Relationship Building
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Assess the current culture through confidential listening circles with a cross-section of the organization.
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Identify the core strengths and the key fractures.
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Co-create a vision for a "restorative community" with leadership.
Phase 2: Core Team Training & "Train-the-Trainer"
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Don't just be the outside expert. Identify and train an internal team of champions.
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Equip them with the skills to facilitate simple connection-building circles and understand the principles. This ensures sustainability after your contract ends.
Phase 3: Embedding Practices into Routine Operations
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Work with the organization to integrate circles into regular staff meetings, classroom morning routines, or team check-ins.
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Help them develop a pilot protocol for responding to lower-level conflicts restoratively.
Phase 4: Evaluation and Long-Term Planning
1. Gather qualitative and quantitative data on the impact (e.g., reduced staff turnover, improved climate survey scores, student attendance data).
Create a 3-year sustainability plan for the organization.
We partner with you!
Together, we determine your needs, the scope of work,
and a plan for implementation.
The consulting services we offer consist of time spent together by phone or Zoom in order to determine your needs, barriers, key concerns, decisions to be made, type of programming to develop, strategies to enact, and timelines
Strategic Partnerships and Outreach
We can't do this alone! Below is a list of key gatekeepers and stakeholders that we currently engage with and hope to engage with.
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Community organizations; Tribal departments, families, and schools; a regenerative agriculture non-profit and families, and a variety of non-profits,
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Human Resources Consultants & Organizational Development Firms: Collective Voices is equipped to help fix toxic cultures and improve retention. We are a specialized partner for culture transformation.
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Educational Service Districts (ESDs): Collective Voices offers evidence-based professional development for your member districts. We would be excited to run a pilot program for a cohort of schools within an ESD.
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City Government & Community Foundations: City council members, mayors' offices, police academies, and community foundations that fund public safety and community wellness initiatives might be interested in learning more about our Community Peace Program, as it is a public health approach to safety and connectivity, and an investment in social infrastructure.
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First Responder Agencies: Police, fire, and EMS departments are steeped in trauma and organizational stress. Collective Voices Grief & Loss Circles and our services that focus on de-escalation (starting with self), compassion fatigue, and building trust within teams might be just what you are looking.
"I can absolutely provide testimony. The Muckleshoot Tribal School began our restorative practices and Circle Keeping Initiative during the pandemic as a way to get students to start talking to one another again, as well as to try a more effective way to manage and resolve some of the conflicts we were seeing on campus. We are now in our 4th year of working with Jessie and Collective Voices around this initiative, and we have definitely seen the benefits of providing restorative practices approach on campus. Students are now willing and requesting Circles, for both building up their friend group/peer group, as well as for managing and resolving conflicts. Staff are using Circles in the classroom for building classroom cohesion, establishing expectations, and addressing challenges and conflicts between students. Staff also have also integrated Circle work into their professional learning teams as a way to ensure that everyone has a voice and is heard, and to manage staff conflict when it arises. Our administrative team has been able to adapt policies to better be able to support students that may need to take some time away from campus by providing Support Circles upon their return. Working with Jessie Kushner from Collective Voices has provided invaluable support and guidance throughout this process. She comes to the table without preconceived notions around what works for the Muckleshoot community. Jessie has fully immersed herself in what the community is asking for, and she offers ongoing culture-centered consult that is specific to the Muckleshoot Tribe’s cultural and traditional practices.” ~ SUDP, Prevention/Intervention Specialist, Muckleshoot Tribal School
