AGENDA

7:30am – 9:30am - Breakfast honoring Judge Gail Bereola,
Alameda County Juvenile Court, with keynote address from
Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson

(tickets are $35 each, table for 8 is $250)   SOLD OUT!!!

10:00am – 12:00pm - Restorative Justice seminar
(complimentary add-on to Breakfast)

1:00pm - 4:00pm - Conflict Resolution Skills Workshop
(additional $50 per person sliding scale)

Our 2009 "Cultivating Common Ground" event will spotlight Restorative Justice as a methodology in conflict resolution practices. Restorative Justice is a movement that invites the victim, the offender, and their respected communities to identify and address the harm done to the community and the ways in which the community can be fully restored following an offense. Restorative Justice as a natural extension of SEEDS services in cultivating common ground amongst victims, offenders, and community members.

The program will begin with an early morning breakfast, where we are expecting over 100 government and community leaders, judges, attorneys, and professional and volunteer mediators to honor Judge Gail Bereola. She has been instrumental in leading the effort to integrate restorative justice practices and principles into the Alameda County juvenile courts. Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson, who has been a long time advocate for social justice in our community, is participating in the program as our Keynote Speaker.

Following the breakfast, SEEDS will showcase restorative justice practices in a lively, interactive seminar that demonstrates how constructive dialogue between offenders and their victims often provides healing for both parties and reduces recidivism.

Later in the afternoon SEEDS will facilitate a Conflict Resolution Skills workshop open to the general public. Join us for this highly interactive and experiential training to explore conflict in your life.  This highly interactive program presents practice opportunities in listening skills and a method for deepening understanding of what is most important to people in conflict.  Participants will learn to identify their own and other's positions (what someone says they want) and interests (the reasons why they want it).  Participants will practice using these skills in a live role-play setting and begin to learn how to work toward a satisfactory resolution for everyone. This workshop will provide a sampling of our 40 hour mediation training, and our 2 day conflict resolution skills curriculum. Registration for the skills workshop is a separate fee of $50 per person, sliding scale.

2009 Annual Breakfast Honorary Committee

Claudia Albano, City of Oakland

Judge Wayne Brazil, Magistrate Judge, Federal District Court of California

Millie Burns, Catholic Charities of the East Bay

Fania E. Davis, Ph.D., Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

Michael Hannigan, Give Something Back

Ron Kelly, Professional Mediator

May Lee, City of Fremont

Grande Lum, UC Hastings College of the Law

Edith Ng, University of California

Jean Quan, Oakland City Council

Tom Surh, Alameda County Superior Court

Claudia Viera, Mediation Law Offices of Claudia Viera

2009 SPONSORS

SEEDS LEADER

Give Something Back

Kaiser Permanente

SEEDS BENEFACTORS

Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Fernandez, Lyons,

Greenwood, Harley & Oberman Foundation

Rick Lowe Design

Mo Morris, Paul Steckel and Van Mulder Sheet Metal, Inc.

Jane Gottesman and Geoffrey Biddle 

SEEDS PARTNERS

Nina Senn, Mediator

Barbara Steinberg

Bob Bailey & Haas Foundation

SEEDS FRIENDS

Tim Alexander Photography

American Friends Service Committee

Claremont Resort & Spa

Lynn Cooper

D'Jour Floral

Diana Gray

Dr. Misa Hosohama

Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP

Lois Kadosh, Broker/Consultant

Lyn Kendrick

Hon. Linda Maio, Councilmember, City of Berkeley, District 1

Mariana Moore Consulting

Oracle Corporation

Payne & Fears LLP

Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & Lowe, LLP

Arline "Sandi" Tyler

Claudia Viera

Barry Winograd, Arbitrator & Mediator

SEEDS Community Resolution Center is recognized as a 501(c)3 charitable organization by the IRS.  Your contribution may entitle you to a tax deduction.