Wkly Mtg: Shailly Agnihotri
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11 Jan 2018 |
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 New York
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SPEAKER: Shailly Agnihotri – Jan 11
The Restorative Center
Shailly Agnihotri is the Founder & Executive Director of The Restorative Center, an organization which facilitates community circles as a way to nurture bonds, repair harm, and heal rifts.
About Shailly Agnihotri, Founder & Executive Director of The Restorative Center
Shailly Agnihotri spent more than 20 years as an attorney, and has developed an expertise in criminal justice through working as a prosecutor (Orleans Parish), teaching (Georgetown Law School) and as a public defender (New York City). She had the privilege of studying (as a Prettyman Fellow) with Professor William Greenhalgh whose love for the Constitution and the rights it affords the accused inspired her legal career. She has come to understand the power for individuals and communities to come to a deeper emergent wisdom of justice through a facilitated circles. She is a trained facilitator in Restorative Practices and a Certified Mediator, has a J.D. (cum laude) from Tulane Law School and a LL.M. (Prettyman Fellowship) from Georgetown Law.
Shailly has presented at conferences around the world on TRC's vision for an independent free-standing model for Restorative Justice which is codified as the Newburgh Model.. She has lead Trainings in TRC's distinct model of RJ for community members, Teens, social workers and attorneys. She has facilitated RJ circles in schools, community centers and the workplace.
Shailly also completed advanced training in yoga and meditation teaching (500 RTA), and studied techniques of breath work, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, yin yoga and meditation. Shailly is grateful for the privilege of studying with Alan Finger, a Tantric mystic and the founder of ISHTA Yoga, whose teaching--of the necessity of the discipline of surrender that meditation brings to our life--inspires her deeply.
Also an artist, Shailly has directed a documentary (Three Soldiers), published stories and has a play in development (Cosmic Dancer). She is grateful to be mentored by Bernard Kop-- a generous genius of British theatre.
She is a mom of two amazing kids who never cease to dazzle her.
About the Restorative Center
The Restorative Center's mission is to develop a community-centered model of restorative justice that creates the structure and space for communities to discover and activate their ability to work together toward their own well-being.
TRC uses Community Circles as the means for opening up a new kind of community dialogue and inter-connectedness, to create a social foundation from which to pursue common goals and address common problems.
Once a community has built its bridges and connections, the community has the capacity to handle conflicts amongst its members through circles (Restorative Justice).
TRC seeks a viable alternative to the adversarial system, a better way to resolve and deter conflict, to promote individual and community healing, and to reclaim justice.
In fact, TRC is insistent that the ideals of Restorative Justice must not be co-opted by the criminal justice system but reside best in the power of individuals and communities.
We envision a future in which the majority of issues currently routed through the criminal justice system and family court are resolved by the communities where those issues arise.
TRC’s program team studied a range of circle practices used in the United States, Jamaica, South Africa, and Brazil, and pulled elements from each to form the basis for our model, also employing our team’s expertise in systems theory, psychology, social work, mediation, law, curriculum development, narrative medicine, childbirth/parenting education, and yoga/meditation to inform the model’s structure. Thus the Newburgh Model of Community Circles was born and named in honor the city which hosted its development and implementation. www.therestorativecenter.org
Shailly Agnihotri spent more than 20 years as an attorney, and has developed an expertise in criminal justice through working as a prosecutor (Orleans Parish), teaching (Georgetown Law School) and as a public defender (New York City). She had the privilege of studying (as a Prettyman Fellow) with Professor William Greenhalgh whose love for the Constitution and the rights it affords the accused inspired her legal career. She has come to understand the power for individuals and communities to come to a deeper emergent wisdom of justice through a facilitated circles. She is a trained facilitator in Restorative Practices and a Certified Mediator, has a J.D. (cum laude) from Tulane Law School and a LL.M. (Prettyman Fellowship) from Georgetown Law.
Shailly has presented at conferences around the world on TRC's vision for an independent free-standing model for Restorative Justice which is codified as the Newburgh Model.. She has lead Trainings in TRC's distinct model of RJ for community members, Teens, social workers and attorneys. She has facilitated RJ circles in schools, community centers and the workplace.
Shailly also completed advanced training in yoga and meditation teaching (500 RTA), and studied techniques of breath work, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, yin yoga and meditation. Shailly is grateful for the privilege of studying with Alan Finger, a Tantric mystic and the founder of ISHTA Yoga, whose teaching--of the necessity of the discipline of surrender that meditation brings to our life--inspires her deeply.
Also an artist, Shailly has directed a documentary (Three Soldiers), published stories and has a play in development (Cosmic Dancer). She is grateful to be mentored by Bernard Kop-- a generous genius of British theatre.
She is a mom of two amazing kids who never cease to dazzle her.
About the Restorative Center
The Restorative Center's mission is to develop a community-centered model of restorative justice that creates the structure and space for communities to discover and activate their ability to work together toward their own well-being.
TRC uses Community Circles as the means for opening up a new kind of community dialogue and inter-connectedness, to create a social foundation from which to pursue common goals and address common problems.
Once a community has built its bridges and connections, the community has the capacity to handle conflicts amongst its members through circles (Restorative Justice).
TRC seeks a viable alternative to the adversarial system, a better way to resolve and deter conflict, to promote individual and community healing, and to reclaim justice.
In fact, TRC is insistent that the ideals of Restorative Justice must not be co-opted by the criminal justice system but reside best in the power of individuals and communities.
We envision a future in which the majority of issues currently routed through the criminal justice system and family court are resolved by the communities where those issues arise.
TRC’s program team studied a range of circle practices used in the United States, Jamaica, South Africa, and Brazil, and pulled elements from each to form the basis for our model, also employing our team’s expertise in systems theory, psychology, social work, mediation, law, curriculum development, narrative medicine, childbirth/parenting education, and yoga/meditation to inform the model’s structure. Thus the Newburgh Model of Community Circles was born and named in honor the city which hosted its development and implementation. www.therestorativecenter.org
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Meetings convene 11:45 am with starting bell at noon.
You may also register and prepay with a $5 discount by the Monday before the event at PayPal (no account needed).
Meetings convene 11:45 am with starting bell at noon.
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