She is also a Restorative Justice teacher and facilitator having been trained through various Indigenous and Settler mentors and elders.Her most fulfilling work began 17 years ago when she discovered the power of the trifecta of the Be the Change Movement, Mindfulness and Restorative Practices. She has a Master’s in Education from the University of Ottawa and is a certified instructor with Mindful Schools. She now teaches at Yukon University in their Faculty of Education, where she coaches new teachers on how to create classrooms and schools where people feel safe, loved and celebrated. She has written several books, including God is a Lawyer Too and Ten Laws of Unlimited Success, as well as numerous articles and blogs, including “The Power of Inclusion: Treating Others Well is Essential to Our Well-Being” “More Support for Mindfulness: Reduction of Implicit Bias” and “Restorative Circles: Finding Solutions from Ancient Traditions.”Ĭhristine has been an educator for over 30 years and school administrator for 12 years on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, also known as Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. She received the New York Law School Black Law Student Association Award for Community Service, FDNY Women’s History Award, the Women on the Front Line of Gender Justice, and several other awards. In addition to obtaining her Juris Doctor from NYU School of Law, Cecilia obtained her BFA from Howard University, her MFA from UCLA and her MDiv from New York Theological Seminary. She is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the NYC Bar Association’s Committee on Mindfulness and Well-Being in the Law. She is founder of the Mindfulness Group at FDNY, where she distributes both a Diversity and Inclusion Newsletter and a Mindfulness Newsletter. Loving is Deputy Commissioner and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (“CDIO”) at the Fire Department of New York City, where she provides leadership for developing and maintaining a positive and holistic work environment for over 17,000 members. Bonnibel holds a BSFS from Georgetown, where she studied International Politics with a concentration on Women’s and Gender Studies in 2015.Ĭecilia B. Bonnibel loves to dance, craves chocolate, loves reading and learning more about Afro-Latinx history, music and dance. Currently, she works as a College Coordinator at Sadie Nash Leadership Project, a young women's and gender expansive youth organization that aims to center their empowerment and joy. It was through this work that she first connected with Hidden Water in 2017. It was Centro Corona's elders, indigenous leaders and intergenerational community that allowed her to grow into her practice. Bonnibel was first introduced to circle practice, mediation, and community work at Centro Corona (formerly known as IMI Corona), where she served her two years of Public Allies Americorps. She is Puerto Rican of Dominican descent and comes from many homes: Puerto Rico, New Orleans, DC, Queens and has a special place in her heart for the ‘Nordeste’ of Brazil. Anne Marie has a Masters degree in Conflict Resolution and Mediation.īonnibel (she/her/ella) is a Latinx educator passionate about gender justice, the fight against gender violence, (im)migration, equity and community-led movement. Anne Marie believes strongly that using a structured conversation supported by a transformative process gives power back to groups and communities so that together they can set things right, allowing true healing to happen and people to move on. She has conducted many community and workplace conferences using Circles of Support and Restorative Conferences as powerful processes to repair harm, restore relationships, and settle on meaningful reparation. Employed as a workplace counselor, Anne Marie was first on the scene when organizations were shaken by traumatic or violent events, offering psychological first aid and critical incident debriefing to groups and individuals impacted by harm. As a social worker and community development coordinator she used Circle processes to support people with traumatic brain damage return to their families and communities after long periods of hospitalization. Anne Marie has been facilitating group processes to address harm and hurt for many years.
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