FREE RESOURCES
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INTERGENERATION RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CIRCLE PROTOCOL
We hope you use this circle with your elders and your youth — and continue building bridges across generations of justice work.
We created this Intergenerational Restorative Justice Circle Protocol in hopes that our communities can engage in healing-centered practices that model curiosity, understanding, storytelling, and healing across generations.
MENTAL HEALTH HEALING DECK
“Healing On Deck: Whole and Heard,” a mental health card deck as a healing-centered, restorative justice tool designed to foster healing, connection, and empowerment through the principles of restorative justice circle. Here we offer you our slide deck version for you to use! Stay tuned for the card deck! We are aiming it to have it printed and ready for your holiday gifts!
CELL-PHONE MEDIATION PROTOCOL
One of the most common points of conflict in schools are phones! This is definitely an issue outside the school system too!
We created this peer mediation conflict resolution protocol that leans on the power of multiple truths, shared understandings, and a commitment to peace building led by youth.
“THE REAL ME” CIRCLE PROTOCOL
This week, our free resource is called “The Real Me”. It’s a circle protocol to explore our intersecting identities. The purpose of this circle protocol is to make space to dig deeper into our sense of identity, how we've changed as we share more vulnerable parts of who we are with our community, and how we strengthen our relationships by getting to know each other better.
“SEASONS FOR CHANGE” CIRCLE PROTOCOL
As 2025 comes to a close, we created this resource to help us pause, reflect, and honor the transformations happening around us. This 45-minute circle invites young people and adults to process transitions—whether someone is joining, leaving, graduating, or stepping into a new chapter—while recognizing the gifts that each person leaves behind. This circle protocol is anchored in Octavia Butler’s quote: “All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.”
“RESTORATIVE JUSTICE COLORING BOOK”
You know the saying, “Everything I learned, I learned in Kindergarten?” Well, we’re bringing back the alphabet!
We are so excited to share our ABC’s of RJ coloring book! It is equal parts Social Emotional Learning (SEL) supports and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) method!
Each page features a big, beautiful flower-filled letter that youth (and adults!) can color in and define. Every letter stands for an important value—like Belonging, Healing, Mutual Aid, Youth Power, and Transformation—and comes with a short, easy-to-understand explanation about what that word means to us, as we practice it.
THREE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROTOCOLS FOR WELCOMING 2026
We created this 3-circle resource to inspire our communities to reflect, affirm, and envision the new year (2026). Each circle lasts a class period (45 minutes) and includes different prompts for you to choose from; no need to do all of them!
Circle 1: Debriefing the Year
Purpose: To collectively reflect on the past year, honoring learning, growth, and community wisdom while releasing what no longer serves.
Circle 2: Affirmations Celebration
Purpose: To welcome the new year together by affirming our core values, expressing gratitude, and strengthening relational bonds.
Circle 3: Dear Future Me
Purpose: To create space for our hopes and dreams, both individually and collectively.
MEDIATION PREP WORKSHEET
A 2-page Restorative Justice Mediation Graphic Organizer
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE 101 TRAINING
SLIDE DECK
A slide deck you can use to teach an introduction to restorative justice to your classes or youth.
CREATING COMMUNITY NORMS PROTOCOL
We created this Creating Community Norms Protocol because we know that this is an ongoing practice rather than a one-off event.
We hope you use this circle with the youths (and adults) you are in community, as you co-design peaceful, justiceful and joyful frameworks of co-existing AND getting things done!
THANKSGIVING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROTOCOL
We hope you use this arts-based Restorative Justice Circle Protocol in your classrooms and adapt it to your own hyperlocal needs and possibilities as we strive to honor the land, uplift Indigenous narratives, and move toward an education for liberation together.
The protocol includes:
RJ Circle norms based on Navajo/Diné traditions
The real history of the Wampanoag and Thanksgiving
What “Thankstaking” means and why it matters
Reflection prompts for your holiday table
A land acknowledgement + how to learn your ZIP code’s Indigenous history
An artivism closing activity
A Standing Rock playlist
THE SOUNDTRACK TO MY 2025!
We’re excited to share “The Soundtrack to My 2025!”, a printable worksheet designed to help us explore our emotions, identity, and intentions for the year through music.
Through this tool, in the spirit of “pass the aux” and collective music listening together, we invite you to curate songs connected to different parts of your emotional landscape—songs that ground you, energize you, comfort you, or help you express who YOU are!
This tool is perfect for advisory, SEL groups, circles, journaling activities, or beginning-of-year Tier 1 community building. It centers youth voice and supports emotional literacy, connection, and self-awareness through a culturally responsive medium: their own music.
“ARTIVIST TRANSFORMATIONS AND REFLECTIONS”
We created this workbook as a space for you to reflect on the year 2025 using creative expression rather than written-only responses. We center healing, accountability, imagination, and collective liberation as we “Freedom Dream” our 2026!
NEW ADVENTURES RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CIRCLE
New Adventures! Is a restorative justice circle protocol to intentionally enter new experiences—and thoughtfully reflect once they’re complete. Whether it’s the start of a program, a field trip, a performance, a new semester, or a collective transition, New Adventures! offers a healing-centered way to come together, leaning into the power of restorative justice practices in circle.
INTERRUPTING CYBERBULLING AND “THE MEAN FINSTA”
This week, we’re excited to share Interrupting Cyberbullying, a new roleplay and restorative justice protocol for teachers and youth!
Interrupting Cyberbullying is designed to help students and teachers move beyond punishment and towards healing. Our resource this week has sections on:
Understanding what cyberbullying is
Recognizing the emotional, mental health, and school impacts of online harassment, with youth-accessible data and reflection activities
Differentiating conflict from bullying, helping students identify power, intent, and patterns of harm
Practicing being upstanders and interrupters, not bystanders!
There’s also a restorative circle roleplay (“The Mean Finsta”) that walks students through a realistic group chat harm scenario and guided circle dialogue!
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ROLEPLAYS
Several different documents we use for conflict resolution roleplays for youth, using grading disagreements, homophobic comments in schools, Islamophobic comments in schools, as example situations to resolve.
VISION BOARD ACTIVITY
A slideshow and guide for youth on making their own vision board