Restorative Practices @ Penn

Restorative Practices

Restorative Practices @ Penn (RP@P) works with graduate and undergraduate students, staff, and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania to promote healing, accountability, and community building through facilitated process. We value self-determination, the inherent worth of all people, and our interconnectedness, and draw from a diverse web of roots in our work to promote right relationship.
Community Building
RP@P supports proactive measures to build community and strengthen our collective capacity to handle harm when it inevitably occurs. If you would like to work with RP@P to facilitate community building on your team, in your class, department, program, or office, please click below for more information!
Healing and Accountability
In situations of harm, RP@P can provide safe, private, supportive resources to help the harmed party access healing and support, and for the responsible party to work toward accountability and repair. Click here to learn more about our services.
Trainings
A core piece of our mission is to equip our community with the skills to navigate harm in good ways, and to foster an environment in which all members of our community engage with each other in restorative ways. Click below for more information about our trainings.
Consultation
RP@P provides consultations to support you in developing your restorative leadership, navigating interpersonal conflicts, and identifying if and how our program can directly get involved.
More about RP@P

Born in 2018, RP@P represents a collective of campus partners working together to create a safe, healthy and productive campus community. The program is housed within the Center for Community Standards and Accountability as an umbrella for the University’s Restorative Practices.

In situations of interpersonal harm, RP@P can provide safe, confidential, supportive resources to help the harmed party access healing and support, and for the responsible party to work toward accountability and repair. Fundamental to the Restorative philosophy is the belief that no one is expendable, and that all of us have the capacity both to cause and repair harm. Click these links to see some examples of Restorative processes we use.



RP@P also implements proactive measures to build supportive communities and strengthen our collective capacity to handle harm when it inevitably occurs. This can take many forms, including Circles for community building, trainings or workshops for students, staff and faculty, and consultations with academic departments, programs, and student groups to implement restorative approaches internally.

RP@P is supported by a wide web of partners across the University, including the 75+ trained practitioners from across campus are invested in creating a restorative campus culture. In order to coordinate restorative practices on campus, RP@P works with these campus partners to best support the unique needs arising from each harm and within each community.

 

Land Acknowledgement
RP@P recognizes that the University of Pennsylvania occupies Lenapehoking, the Lenni-Lenape homeland.
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Meet the Team!
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