Start with practical everyday skills. Go deeper through mediation, restorative practice, and certificate courses. Bring the learning into your family, workplace, school, organization, or community.
Conflict is part of everyday life. Learn practical ways to listen, understand what matters, communicate clearly, slow escalation, take responsibility, set boundaries, and explore repair.
Peacemaking does not mean avoiding conflictor forcing agreement. It means developing betterways to face conflict while preserving dignity, voice,responsibility, and choice.
Choose a skill to explore.
Being heard can change what becomes possible.
Listening does not mean agreement. It means making enough room to understand what matters before deciding what comes next.
Try it: Ask one question before offering your answer.
CJC is gathering interest while future dates and learning opportunities are developed. Sharing interest is not registration or a commitment.
One day · Interest open
An accessible introduction to practical peacemaking for community members and people in helping roles.
40 hours · Interest open
A deeper foundation for people preparing to support others in understanding disputes and exploring possible next steps.
Training can deepen knowledge and skill. Readiness for a CJC role is decided separately through supported practice, supervision, and the responsibilities that role carries.
Four certificate courses, developed and taught with Fresno Pacific University, are being re-launched. Interest is open while dates are set. Sharing interest is not enrollment.
Conflict, restorative justice, peacemaking, and community transformation as a foundation for deeper learning and practice.
Mediation, negotiation, impartial facilitation, restorative conferencing, ethics, and supervised practice.
Facilitating restorative processes and supporting schools, organizations, and communities to sustain them.
Safety, trust, choice, and cultural responsiveness carried into peacemaking and restorative work.
Certificate completion, continuing education, academic credit, licensure, and authority to practice are different things.
Schools, agencies, nonprofits, employers, and community organizations can start with a workshop or build a longer learning relationship shaped around the people, roles, and setting.
Explore learning partnershipsA focused introduction or role-specific session for a team, school, agency, board, or community group.
Structured learning for a group developing mediation, restorative, facilitation, or related practice together.
Training, coaching, implementation support, facilitated practice, and follow-through over time.
You do not need to know the right course or pathway first. Tell CJC what you are interested in, who the learning is for, or what you hope to be able to do differently.
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