The Community Justice Project- Hiring Facilitators, Posted 07/02/19

The Community Justice Project is seeking new facilitators for our Healing Education and Accountability for Liberation (HEAL) program!

Responsibilities

Facilitation teams consist of four facilitators per circle  —  two community-based facilitators and two imprisoned facilitators. Facilitators will staff one of our three weekly circles for 12-15 months beginning January 7, 2020 on Tuesdays at either 7:30-10:30 am, 12:30-3:30 pm, or 5:30-8:30 pm.

Facilitators will also be expected to attend two monthly team meetings where they will participate in the governance, and coordination of the HEAL program, on: (1) the second Thursday of every month from 5:30 – 8:00 pm at the Public Defender Association’s offices (110 Prefontaine Place S Suite 506), and (2) the third Sunday of every month at Washington State Reformatory (tentatively).

You will be required to participate in our HEAL facilitator trainings at Washington State Reformatory on (1) July 19th & 20th from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm (2) September 14th & 15th 12:00 pm – 6:30 pm and (3) November 8th & 9th 12:00 pm – 6:30 pm.

Competencies and Qualities

Our facilitators bring a deeply held commitment to respond to harm in ways that are transformative and uphold the dignity of all involved. By putting connection and care at the center of their approach, they create spaces that are grounded in trust and interdependence.

Our facilitators bring a complex understanding of accountability and healing to the circles they facilitate, holding lived experiences of both surviving and causing harm. We honor this collective wisdom, and understand that a strong facilitation team is diverse in life experience, in skill and practice in all its forms. We strongly encourage applications from the  community members that are most likely to be impacted by interpersonal and state violence  —  including people of color, people from working class backgrounds, women and LGBTQ people.

HEAL facilitators must possess the following qualities and competencies:

• Content mastery: familiarity with trauma healing frameworks, restorative and transformative justice, and group facilitation and/or commitment to learn the curriculum and participate in ongoing training toward this end;
• Self-work: engages in practices toward self-awareness, self-reflection and healing outside of HEAL circle;
• Presence: engages in practices to maintain connection to themselves while holding space for other individuals and groups experiencing a range of emotions;
• Open: willingness to be impacted by the work and flexible for what emerges; commitment to balancing vulnerability with boundaries; and open to provide and receive feedback;
• Connected: see themselves as part of a collective body; available for deep community and relational interdependence; commitment to working through conflict;
• Integrity + Accountability: willingness to take responsibility for your impact and actions, commitment to show up consistently and follow through;
• Structural analysis: anti-racist and intersectional analysis and practice.

Compensation

Facilitators will receive a stipend of $500 dollars/month ($25/hr for up to five hours each week) for the duration of the program and reimbursed for mileage for travel to and from Washington State Reformatory.

TO APPLY

If you are interested, please fill out our HEAL Facilitation application here.
Please contact Martina Kartman (martina.kartman@defender.org) if you have any questions
Community Justice Project was founded in 2017 at the Public Defender Association in partnership with API Chaya, The UW Center For Human Rights, the Concerned Lifers Organization and the Black Prisoners Caucus at Washington State Reformatory. We are a collective of people impacted by interpersonal and state violence who are resourcing our communities to address harm in ways that move us closer to collective liberation, safety, and accountability.

HEAL is a 12-15 month circle process at Washington State Reformatory (WSR) in Monroe. Drawing on restorative justice practices and transformative justice principles, we explore topics such as trauma, shame, resilience, accountability, gender socialization, structural and generational violence and their impacts. The participants engage in a rigorous circle process to unpack the dynamics that led to the harm, and finally, dialoguing with harmed parties. This project was launched in December of 2017 at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) with thirty voluntary participants.

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