Mission: Everyone’s needs matter.

I believe we are all born with the inate capacity for care
and from it with the desire to contribute to life around us.

• MORE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SKILLS
  

• MORE HEALING
  

• LESS PUNISHMENT

Bonne

Bonne arts programming refers to an arts-based workshops, restorative justice circles and mediation services. A social emotional skills specialist-through the use of art as a catalyst for great openings to deeper issues. When embraced more broadly, restorative justice and restorative practices will build empathy, restore dignity, enable healing, and strengthen communities as we strive toward a just society in which all lives have equal value. For any school, camp, organization, association to help built and strengthen community. We promote mind & body connection, emotional fluency, self-esteem healing from harm and compassionate community.

• Mediation Services
  As a Mediator, and restorative justice practitioner, I’m committed to peace-making or conflict-resolution. I inject restorative justice principles into the mediation process. As a mediator I help the parties acknowledge injustices and wrongs, work to make things right for all sides, and focus on a future without a reoccurrence of the dispute. Rebuilding trust is a paramount objective. Restorative mediation goes beyond just settling a case or resolving a dispute.

• Restorative Justice
  Restorative Justice Circles helps communities, organisations and develop their own processes for supporting those in conflict. Commonly these bring together the three parties to a conflict – those who have acted, those directly impacted and the wider community – within an intentional systemic context, to dialogue as equals.
  Often participants invite each other and attend voluntarily. The dialogue process used is shared openly with all participants, and guided by a community member. Generally these processes end with actions that bring mutual benefit.
  Restorative Justice is an alternative to the judicial system that is proving successful around the world in keeping youth offenders out of jail and reducing recidivism. Bonne art space Circles, supports those involved in conflict by bringing together the parties involved and creating conditions for mutually beneficial action. Restorative justice is a way of dealing with disputes and conflicts. A process is said to be restorative when three events occur. First, the parties are able to acknowledge that a dispute exists and are able to share how they experienced the dispute with each other. Second, the parties are able to talk about how to make things as right as possible between themselves. Third, the parties talk about the future to prevent the dispute from occurring again and to rebuild trust. A successful restorative mediation will reconcile the interests of the parties and will reconcile any underlying injustices.

Art

Art is one of the best ways to translate one’s thinking into visible forms. Our workshops are tailored to participant’s needs. We are guided by principles of community-based art and restorative justice and believe that the creative arts can foster better communication and be tools for individual rehabilitation and communal and societal reparation.

Possible art forms for building connections include poetry the visual arts and graphic design.

Space

Bonne Art Space is a container for all feelings, needs and the imagination. We believe that every individual is vital and every voice matters. We are dedicated to collaborating to facilitate programs that grow organically out of the needs and interests of all of those involved. We create structures to support consistency and growth in a creative space.