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  • Voyageurs Expeditionary School
  • 3724 Bemidji Avenue N, Bemidji, MN, 56601 US
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Circle Trainings

Twenty-four-hour trainings over four days. The circle trainings are recommended both for people beginning their restorative journey and for those with personal, cultural, or professional experiences who wish to deepen their knowledge in a supportive community. Fee: $330.

Circle to Repair Relationships Trainings:

Eighteen-hour trainings over three days. Restorative Chats are an introductory training. A knowledge of and experience in circle are important for all other repair of relationships trainings: Circle to Repair Relationships, Restorative Practices—Students with Special Needs, Supporting Relationships with Adults, and Addressing Racial Harm, Exploring Our Stories. Fee: $250.

Restorative Skills Sessions

Twelve-hour trainings over two days. Restorative Skills Sessions are open to those with knowledge of or experience with circle. These sessions are intended to help circle keepers enhance their practice, deepen their knowledge, and expand their restorative mindset. Fee: $165.

Registration Details

Each session is limited to eighteen participants. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) including those for administrators, will be offered. People who work in education, offer restorative justice/practices, and otherwise support youth are welcome to register.

Review the session descriptions and other restorative practices resources on the Minnesota Department of Education website.

There will be no refunds given after May 31, 2025 for the sessions.

For further information or to request a reasonable accommodation to participate, contact Grace Yang, 651-582-8777, Minnesota Department of Education.  

When registering for a Minnesota Department of Education training, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded and to the release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction of any recorded media of your appearance, voice, and name for any purpose whatsoever in perpetuity in connection with MDE and its initiatives, including, by way of example only, use on websites, in social media, news, and advertising.

In addition, you waive and release any claims you may have related to the use of recorded media of you at the event, including, without limitation, any right to inspect or approve the photo, video, or audio recording of you, any claims for invasion of privacy, violation of the right of publicity, defamation, and copyright infringement or any fees for the use of such record media.

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Circle Trainings*

  • Circle 1: Building Community; June 9, 10, 11 and 12, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Fee: $330

    Circle 1: Building Community; June 9, 10, 11 and 12, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Fee: $330

    Circle is a communication process for building and maintaining relationships, based in many Indigenous values. In this four-day introductory session, participants will explore relationship, building rapport and seeing the whole human in self and others. They will discuss who they are as people, their own values in relationship with other people, and look again at how they can honor others whom they touch in their lives. Participants will practice keeping community building circles with each other.
    Circle Keepers: Charles Grolla and Stacy Bender

    Price $330.00
  • Circle to Repair Racial and Other Harm, Integrate Equity, and Understand History and its Somatic Impact; June 9, 10, 11, and 12, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Fee: $330

    Circle to Repair Racial and Other Harm, Integrate Equity, and Understand History and its Somatic Impact; June 9, 10, 11, and 12, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Fee: $330

    Equity is more than addressing current disparities. It is also about addressing past harms – historical, systemic, and individual. In circle, participants will build their capacity toward building more equitable schools, including acknowledging past historical harms. They will explore their own comfort and personal understanding of their power and privilege regarding race, gender, sexual orientation, special educational needs, and intersectionality. Participants will explore how to talk about race in circle with peers, community members and students.
    Circle Keepers: Linsey McMurrin and Dr. Raj Sethuraju

    Price $330.00
  • Circle 2: Deepening Understanding; June 9, 10, 11 and 12, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fee: $330

    Circle 2: Deepening Understanding; June 9, 10, 11 and 12, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fee: $330

    Keeping a Circle can be organized and clear until it’s not. We will explore the power of our Intuition. How can we hold the rim of the Circle so that all can explore what their heart calls to them at that moment? Join Circle Keepers to explore the unseen aspects of Circle Keeping: Intuition, Emotionality, Synchronicity, Spirituality, Quantum Physics, Morphogenic Fields, the Effect of Silence, the Power of storytelling, and completely Trusting the Process. Participants will experience what Quantum Physics teaches us about the connections and entrainment of a group that calls for following the energy of the Circle rather than the expectations of the Keeper. Participants should have at least one 4-day training session and some Circle Keeping experience.
    Circle Keepers: Gwen Chandler and Brandon Royce-Diop

    Price $330.00

Circle to Repair Relationships Trainings*

  • Circle to Repair Relationships; June 10, 11 and 12, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Fee: $250

    Circle to Repair Relationships; June 10, 11 and 12, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Fee: $250

    The circle process supports the community’s work to be in “right relationship” with each other and can be used to repair relationships, address hiccups and disruption, and harm, especially when the harm may require several sessions or ongoing support. Participants will learn processes for the pre-meeting, the repair of harm circle and the celebration/follow-up circle. They will identify ways to use circle with a class and when a circle needs to meet multiple times to support all affected parties. They will discuss the obligations of both participants and the school when harm happens and identify systemic barriers to the process, centering race in all steps and stages. Basic circle training and experience in keeping circle is required.
    Circle Keeper: Chris Mendez

    Price $250.00

Restorative Skills Sessions*

  • Social Emotional Learning and Trauma Informed Practices; June 9 and 10, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fee: $165

    Social Emotional Learning and Trauma Informed Practices; June 9 and 10, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fee: $165

    This session will explore how we talk about trauma and how we might use restorative mindset, practices, and principles to support each other. Participants will review the neuroscience of trauma and self-regulation and explore ways to discuss individual needs and preferred self-regulation methods for adults.

    Price $165.00
  • Mindfulness and Alignment with Self During Difficult Times; June 11 and 12, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fee: $165

    Mindfulness and Alignment with Self During Difficult Times; June 11 and 12, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fee: $165

    This session will lead participants through mindfulness, meditation and energy practices to support navigating challenging situations and restoring calm with greater ease.

    Price $165.00
  • Indigenous Values; June 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fee: $80

    Indigenous Values; June 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fee: $80

    Restorative practices are based in the worldview of many Indigenous cultures. This session will explore the ways of gikinoo’amaw (Ojibwe: teach) and kalihuny^’n (Oneida: education) as a grounding for relationships so that the community can support each other in a good life. This session is open to all.
    Circle Keepers: Susan Ninham and Dan Ninham

    Price $80.00

Training Goals

The goals of the training sessions are to help:  

  • Expose people to restorative practices.
  • Proactively define or re-define equity through restorative practices.
  • Strengthen the restorative impulse in participants as they develop a restorative mindset.
  • Strengthen the networks of support for restorative practices in schools and community.
  • Build authentic relationships among and between educators, students, and the community.  
  • Share practices that facilitate relationship repair.
  • Honor the Indigenous roots of restorative practices.
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