About Us
Our Mission
To support and promote the use of Restorative Justice and restorative practices to repair harm, address obligations, and collaboratively meet the needs of all.
What are Restorative Practices?
Restorative practices are a set of principles, methods, and strategies aimed at addressing harm, conflict, or wrongdoing in a constructive and healing manner. They emphasize repairing relationships, promoting accountability, and restoring harmony within individuals, communities, and organizations. By fostering empathy, active listening, and open communication, restorative practices strive to create a supportive and inclusive environment where individuals can learn, grow, and transform their relationships positively. Learn more here:
Who We Are
Our Restorative Justice Center is a project of the Teran James Young Foundation, dba NVCnextgen. The Teran James Young Foundation is a non-profit that endeavors to cultivate greater peace in the world by imparting Nonviolent Communication to the next generation (hence, the name NVCnextgen).
Along with the Restorative Justice Center, the Teran James Young Foundation offers many other services and programs to the island’s schools and greater community, including the Hale PonoYouth Shelter, a short-term shelter for at-risk youth, and Maluhia Mediation, where trained mediators help members of the community move through conflict in a way that builds connection and strengthens relationships.
Our Vision
We offer training in Restorative Justice and restorative practices, provide trained facilitators of Restorative Justice practices, and promote the adoption of Restorative Justice in our community.
To learn more about the Teran James Young Foundation and the programs and services we offer, please visit our website at teranjy.org.
Meet Our Team
FOUNDER/MEDIATOR
Genesis Young is trained in nonviolent communication style relational mediation. He works with private clients and runs a nonviolent communication mediation weekly public class for years in person and currently online. This is a vigorous international group that practices mediation with each other with conflicts the members have in their lives. Our work is to use conflict as a medium to have increasing connection and therefore more peace in the world.
MEDIATOR/PROGRAMS DIRECTOR
David Litman, (MA, MFT), has over 25 years of experience applying Nonviolent Communication in mediation, counseling, personal coaching, training, and organizational development. Initially certified as a mediator through the Santa Barbara Mediation Group in 1995, he currently conducts Nonviolent Communication mediations and trains mediators in Nonviolent Communication mediation through Maluhia Mediation courses and practice groups. David has helped hundreds of individuals and groups resolve conflict in a manner that effectively meets the needs of all.
MEDIATOR
Hawkeye Lannis is a dedicated Nonviolent Communication and Restorative Practices facilitator who works diligently to educate the young minds of Maui youth about conflict resolution, needs awareness, and social emotional well-being, and collaborates with teachers and counselors in schools across the island toward the implementation of Restorative Practices in our Maui educational system.
Hawkeye also utilizes his skills to aid the greater island community, offering classes teaching Nonviolent Communication and communication skills to the participants at Malama Family Recovery center (a live-in addiction recovery center for women and their children), in order to help them successfully re-integrate into society.
MEDIATOR
Jori Manske is a certified trainer, mediator, and facilitator, with a degree in Social Work. She was certified in Nonviolent Communication in 2003, and has been offering mediation, facilitation, organizational development, consulting, and mentoring services to a variety of businesses, community groups, government, NGO’s, private groups, and individuals since 1971.
“Peace cannot be built on the foundations of fear.”
-Marshall Rosenberg