Restorative Justice Facilitator Trainings

Become a VOEG Facilitator

The Insight Prison Project is offering our multi-phase Facilitator Training, based on our Restorative Justice Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG) model of group facilitation started at San Quentin State Prison. Our multi-phase training model will provide greater support, evaluation and experiential exercises in an effort to better prepare facilitators to implement and run their own groups with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals.

Overall Training Objectives for Facilitators
  • Learn the fundamentals of IPP's philosophy, methodology and facilitation techniques
  • Learn the foundational principles of Restorative Justice and how it applies to working with prisoners, formerly incarcerated people and victims of crime
  • Learn how to facilitate a circle process for prisoners and victims of crime that demonstrates mastery of IPP methodology and techniques
  • Learn how to implement the VOEG curriculum
  • Gain understanding and tools to access the institutional and re-entry culture in order to implement the VOEG curriculum
  • Be able to integrate personal life experience(s) with learned concepts (such as what trauma, abuse, or violence impacts are)
  • Gain awareness of your personal strengths and challenges as a facilitator of this process through evaluation with a lead VOEG Facilitator/Trainer
Training Modules
Phase I: Basic Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG) Facilitation Skills Training
This five day training is the starting point for all trainees seeking an understanding of IPP's philosophy, methodology and facilitation model, specifically the Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG) curriculum. 

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Phase II:  Intensive Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG)  Facilitator Training
This four day intensive will provide trainees with an in-depth understanding of how to implement the VOEG curriculum at prisons, jails and re-entry sites. Successful completion of the Phase 1: Basic training is required. 

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Victim Offender Dialogue Trainings

This Restorative Justice training will support individuals to develop the skills to become volunteer mediators in order to facilitate dialogues between victims and their offenders of severe and violent crime. 

Click here for more information about the Victim Offender Dialogue Training.
Facilitator Training Quick Links

Phase 1: Basic VOEG Facilitator Training 

Phase 2: Intensive VOEG Facilitator Training

Victim Offender Dialogue Trainings
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Questions?

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