Communities of Practice:
Tending to Our Collective Well-Being

SAVE THE DATE: June 23-24, 2026

You probably haven’t experienced a conference quite like this one—and neither have we.

For many of us, restorative justice feels like a set of values that guide not just the way we do educational practice, but the way we want to live our lives. It is a way of living that often requires us to swim upstream, a journey that is not intended to be walked alone. 

The 2026 RJE Conference will focus on nurturing communities of practice - not just talking about learning and working collaboratively, but actually practicing a collaborative approach to restorative justice in educational spaces.  We hope to emphasize depth over breadth, offering time to reflect, process, and apply the wisdom from each speaker through a variety of creative and relational modalities, including writing, movement, art, Circle process, and facilitated dialogue. 

With a schedule designed around a small number of featured speakers and intentional collective processing, we invite both newcomers and experienced practitioners to join us in nurturing and being nurtured, restoring and being restored, as we explore the transformative and healing potential of RJE together.

  Full conference description     Last Year’s Conference Lineup (2025)

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Questions? Contact the Continuing and Professional Education office at cape@emu.edu.

RJE Conference History Slide Show by EMU Grad and Professional Programs