Casey Vaasjo Mediation Services and the South Shore Community Justice Society won $1000 from AWESOME in their February pitch night hosted by Petit Riviere Pet Hospital.
Awesome Foundation South Shore holds a monthly event where community members can make a 4-minute pitch to win $1000 towards their idea or project!
We learned a lot from pitching last month and really pulled it together this time around. Check out our pitch to learn about what this $1000 will do in our community!
"Hi everyone, thank you to Awesome for having us tonight! We are Nicolle, Emily, and Casey from the South Shore Community Justice Society and $1000 will allow us to put on a specialized non-violent communication workshop for our restorative justice volunteers and staff.
Our non-profit organization administers the Restorative Justice Program for youth and adults across Lunenburg and Queens Counties. We receive referrals from police, crown, court and victim serving agencies.
We work with an amazing group of approximately 20 volunteers who facilitate dialogue in restorative justice sessions. They sit in a room with victims, offenders and community members impacted by crime. They create a safe space where offenders can take meaningful accountability and community members' and victims' needs can be addressed, such as being heard, receiving answers to questions, and having a say in how the situation is addressed.
Casey is one of those incredible volunteers and in addition she has her own business offering mediation, conflict consulting, and education. She offers trainings in Non-Violent Communication (NVC), which is a conflict literacy. This workshop for SSCJS will zero in on a specific and impactful facilitation skill - to transform the conflict language of blame, criticism, and judgement, into empathic understanding, the language of emotional states and unmet human needs.
It's like a fast-forward into the heart of the speaker. They say the words that come from the mind, and the facilitator learns to hear the underlying message that comes from the heart. ***Here we took a few examples from the audience of our "judgement" language and transformed it into feelings and needs! For example, "My mother-in-law says obnoxious things." We are all very literate in the language of what others have done wrong. The problem when we speak this way is that other's really can't hear our message. Through the lens of NVC we hear instead, "I feel annoyed and irritated because my needs to be heard and considered aren' being met" ***
You can imagine how valuable these skills will be to the facilitators who are using restorative processes to address crime and justice in our communities.
This workshop will impact
- 25 staff and volunteers
- Participants in over approximately 70 Restorative Justice sessions annually
- And have a ripple effect into the greater community
$1000 will cover the time and resources required to put on this workshop and will support Casey as a local entrepreneur. That’s where we hope the Awesome Foundation will come in. This money will allow us to go above and beyond our regular training because whether we are communicating in our restorative sessions, or in our day-to-day lives, healthy communication leads to healthier and safer communities!
Awesome Foundation South Shore holds a monthly event where community members can make a 4-minute pitch to win $1000 towards their idea or project!
We learned a lot from pitching last month and really pulled it together this time around. Check out our pitch to learn about what this $1000 will do in our community!
"Hi everyone, thank you to Awesome for having us tonight! We are Nicolle, Emily, and Casey from the South Shore Community Justice Society and $1000 will allow us to put on a specialized non-violent communication workshop for our restorative justice volunteers and staff.
Our non-profit organization administers the Restorative Justice Program for youth and adults across Lunenburg and Queens Counties. We receive referrals from police, crown, court and victim serving agencies.
We work with an amazing group of approximately 20 volunteers who facilitate dialogue in restorative justice sessions. They sit in a room with victims, offenders and community members impacted by crime. They create a safe space where offenders can take meaningful accountability and community members' and victims' needs can be addressed, such as being heard, receiving answers to questions, and having a say in how the situation is addressed.
Casey is one of those incredible volunteers and in addition she has her own business offering mediation, conflict consulting, and education. She offers trainings in Non-Violent Communication (NVC), which is a conflict literacy. This workshop for SSCJS will zero in on a specific and impactful facilitation skill - to transform the conflict language of blame, criticism, and judgement, into empathic understanding, the language of emotional states and unmet human needs.
It's like a fast-forward into the heart of the speaker. They say the words that come from the mind, and the facilitator learns to hear the underlying message that comes from the heart. ***Here we took a few examples from the audience of our "judgement" language and transformed it into feelings and needs! For example, "My mother-in-law says obnoxious things." We are all very literate in the language of what others have done wrong. The problem when we speak this way is that other's really can't hear our message. Through the lens of NVC we hear instead, "I feel annoyed and irritated because my needs to be heard and considered aren' being met" ***
You can imagine how valuable these skills will be to the facilitators who are using restorative processes to address crime and justice in our communities.
This workshop will impact
- 25 staff and volunteers
- Participants in over approximately 70 Restorative Justice sessions annually
- And have a ripple effect into the greater community
$1000 will cover the time and resources required to put on this workshop and will support Casey as a local entrepreneur. That’s where we hope the Awesome Foundation will come in. This money will allow us to go above and beyond our regular training because whether we are communicating in our restorative sessions, or in our day-to-day lives, healthy communication leads to healthier and safer communities!
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