7:30-9:00 
Check-in, Registration & Breakfast
Main Room 301-305

10:15-10:30 
Justice Transformed: Embedding Empathy & Trauma Awareness in Law, Education and Advocacy
Room 220-222
This panel explores how integrating empathy and trauma awareness into law, education, and advocacy can create more just, human-centred systems. Amanda will talk about her experiences leading trauma-informed and First Nations-led solutions and research. Judy will explore how trauma-informed principles can be applied using The Human Curriculum framework, emphasizing self-awareness, therapeutic leadership, and human-centered approaches to justice and healing. Karen will explore the benefits of trauma-informed legal writing, offering best practices to enhance advocacy, align with ethical obligations, and support justice reform. Through interactive discussion, participants will gain insight and tools for incorporating trauma-informed principles into their professional and personal practices.  

2:00-3:30 
Workshops
(Choose One)

Integrating Alternative Justice Approaches When Working with Sexual Harm 
Room 220-222
Existing and working within punitive systems - as someone who desires to see more regenerative and healing ways of dealing with harm - can not only feel frustrating, but can bring about vicarious trauma and burnout. How do we begin to move towards the systems we want to see in the future when it feels like we are bound by the systems we have right now? How can we create opportunities for healing and accountability? 
Looking specifically at the realm of sexual harm, this workshop aims to empower you to claim your individual, relational, organizational, and collective realms of influence, in order to integrate principles of restorative and transformative justice into your work. Taking a theoretical as well as somatic approach to change, you will leave this workshop feeling clear and grounded in your next steps to contributing to more healing approaches to sexual harm.  This workshop is for anyone who works with sexual harm, be it with those who have experienced harm, those who have perpetrated harm, or both. This may include frontline workers, police, defence and prosecuting solicitors, judges, or other regulatory roles. Those who do not work with sexual harm but who feel they would benefit from the themes of the workshop are more than welcome.  

10:30-12:00 
Panel Sessions (Choose One)

Leaning In: Restorative Justice Models and Conflict Resolution
Main Room 301-305
The Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission is using restorative principles and trauma-informed practice to reimagine the human rights complaint process. The last and hardest piece is the adjudication and decision-making process as set out in the Human Rights Act. In an adversarial system that focuses on winning and losing - is this even possible? Join Carey, Catherine, and Maria to discuss how they have tried to adopt lessons learned from Community Justice Connect (a restorative justice and conflict resolution service) to the human rights adjudication and decision-making process. They will talk about how the Commission developed new rules of procedure; how we engage parties as they prepare for a hearing after many institutional delays; how evidence and witnesses are handled; and how we communicate decisions to parties, affected communities, and the public.   

1:00-1:45 
Keynote on Post-Traumatic Growth: The Gift of Our Injuries
Main Room 301-305
In this keynote, Robert will describe the concept of post traumatic growth and will give participants an introduction to the ways growth from trauma can be encouraged.

Racial Justice at Work: Ideas, Barriers & Strategies 
2:00-3:30 
Main Room 301-305
This workshop will focus on institutional racism at work. We live in systems that live in us. We will explore ways to better understand how racism is normatively present in our workplace values, beliefs, practices, and culture. Envisioning racial justice at work invites us to understand intersecting systems of oppression. Nothing operates alone. Radical imagination is vital to our collective liberation, so we will push ourselves a bit to listen to ourselves and each other. You will learn about how racism shows up daily in our workplaces and various strategies to respond, interrupt, and intervene. Antiracism is a collective struggle, so self-awareness, interpersonal accountability, and structural change are all part of our workplaces together. The workshop will be dynamic, engaging, and practical. Please bring your playful self to this session to enhance our ability to connect, explore different ways of knowing, and transform ourselves and our orgaizations. 

Guided Medicine Bag Making 
Practice Room 306
Bring focus to your self-care, self-preservation, and protection using Indigenous medicine. In this workshop we will create a leather medicine bag and work with four Indigenous sacred medicines for protection and healing; sage, sweetgrass, cedar, and tobacco. Carry this bag with you to support your life and work. 

This workshop is limited to 50 people who have pre-registered.