A critical practice in our prevention work is transformative dialogue.By listening deeply to other peoples’ stories, we come to understand our own stories in different ways. By freely speaking the truth of our own experience, we discover inner resources that we never knew we had. Through sharing, we come to see the ways we can more effectively hold ourselves and each other accountable. Our commitments to nonviolence, to community, to each other and to self are strengthened.

Our circles, roundtables, workshops and seminars are safe spaces where people can name and challenge the dynamics of power and control and explore the way these dynamics create and sustain violence in our particular racial, ethnic and sociocultural locations. Creativity is realized. New ways to resist and transform violence emerge and healing begins to happen. A sense of belonging, of community is a critical component of the healing process. And healing is necessary for building peace together.