BCWT utilizes proactive relational strategies to help you create a culture of connectivity where all members of your community thrive and feel valued. We also help you examine, change and create the systems, policies and structures that bring that culture to life.

Our process thoughtfully begins with attention to relationships, the foundation from which all meaningful change springs forth.

Each element is crucial to the BCWT process, which is continuous in flow.

FAQs

What is Restorative Justice (RJ)?

BCWT is heavily influenced by the work of RJ movement leader, Fania Davis. In her book “The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice”, she defines RJ as:

Consonant with African and other indigenous communitarian values, restorative justice (RJ) is profoundly relational and emphasizes bringing together everyone affected by wrongdoing to address needs and responsibilities and to heal the harm to relationships and community, to the degree possible. While often mistakenly considered only a reactive response to harm, restorative justice is also a proactive relational strategy to create a culture of connectivity where all members of a community thrive and feel valued.

What is Transformative Justice (TJ)?

Transformative Justice considers what systems, structures and power dynamics are at play that caused/cause the harm. It asks us to examine what wider social systems, policies and structures need to change to prevent further harm. We believe both are necessary to create lasting, meaningful change.