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Leaders & Decision Makers

Peacebuilding’s trainings provide best practices of trauma-informed, resilience-oriented, and restorative justice-focused care for organizations, corporations, and community groups.  

Trainings Available:

Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience the STAR Training

STAR Training

STAR is 5 day evidence-based trauma awareness and resilience training with a 16 year national and international reputation of success. STAR was developed in the months following the tragic events of September 11, 2001 to transform trauma survivors into resilient thrivers.  From its inception, it has encompassed a multicultural perspective that has been well-received globally and locally.
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STAR-Lite Training

​Not enough time for the full STAR Training? No worries.  The STAR-Lite Training is a single-day evidence-based training integrating neuropsychology, trauma healing and resilience, restorative justice, nonviolent conflict transformation, and broadly defined spirituality for those who wish to learn the basics of becoming trauma-informed, resilience-oriented, and restorative justice-focused within a shorter-time frame than the full STAR Training.
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Restorative Justice 101: Training for Practice in Everyday Life RJ 101

Restorative Justice 101: Training for Practice in Everyday Life

RJ 101: Training for Practice in Everyday Life teaches the principles, philosophies, and practices of Restorative Justice via lecture and experiential education methodologies for empowering individuals and communities for application in daily life.  Restorative practices empower those who have been harmed, the community surrounding the harmed, and positively impacts the behavior of those who cause harm.
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Custom Trainings Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute

Custom Trainings

Peacebuilding’s expert training facilitators are available to design specialized trainings to meet your organization's staff development needs. We also provide individualized consultation about how to integrate trauma-informed, resilience-oriented, and restorative justice-focused strategies into your organization's structure.   
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Testimonials:

"Having worked with many young people who have experienced trauma, and surviving PTSD myself, I can honestly say that STAR was the best comprehensive and practical trauma training I have ever had."
Lindsay Walz, Youth Worker and Founder of courageous heARTS, Minneapolis


"The STAR Training shifted how I think about human behavior and provided a trauma-informed care approach as I direct my staff in their essential work. This training is an effective tool to create momentum that can truly shift our community!" 
Jazmin Danielson, Beyond Walls, Minneapolis


"STAR allowed me to better empathize and understand my clients and their behaviors. The cycle of violence, breaking that cycle, and building resilience is forever stuck in my mind. I now view the world through this cyclical lens. This knowledge is extremely powerful professionally and personally."
Lauren Ryan, Program Manager, Anti-Trafficking Services, Minnesota Department of Health

upcoming trainings

STAR Training
STAR-Lite Training ​

Restorative Justice 101
Custom Training

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