This It Starts With Us session builds on Moving From Harm to Healing (Part I) and focuses on concrete, applied ways to use relational and restorative approaches to address harm and conflict across clinical, lab, classroom, and workplace settings.
Join us virtually on Monday, March 30, 2026, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (PT), for a session with Catherine Bargen, co-founder of Just Outcomes Canada and a recognized leader in restorative and relational conflict transformation. Moving beyond the “why” of restorative practice, this session provides both principles and examples to guide everyday situations. Participants will be introduced to frameworks for addressing conflict and harm, and for centring relationships by promoting belonging, accountability, and repair.
Topic | Moving from Harm to Healing (part II): A Practical and Relational Lens on Harm and Conflict
Date: Monday, March 30, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (PT)
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Speaker Bio
Catherine Bargen, MA (She/her),
Co-founder, Just Outcomes Canada
Catherine Bargen is a co-founder of Just Outcomes Canada and a recognized leader in designing programs that help organizations and communities respond to harm and conflict in ways that promote healing, accountability, and stronger relationships. With more than 25 years of experience, she has worked with governments, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, Indigenous Nations, victim services, anti-violence groups, and religious communities to implement practical approaches to transforming conflict. Her work has taken her around the world, including Switzerland, Israel/Palestine, and Colombia, where she has supported organizations in implementing processes that centre understanding, collective problem-solving, repairing relationships, and preventing future harm. Catherine holds a Master’s degree in Conflict Transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding in Virginia, USA, and in 2019, she was honoured with British Columbia’s Community Safety and Crime Prevention Award.
Description
This It Starts With Us session builds on Moving From Harm to Healing (Part I) and focuses on concrete, applied ways to use relational and restorative approaches to address harm and conflict across clinical, lab, classroom, and workplace settings.
This session will feature Catherine Bargen, co-founder of Just Outcomes Canada and a recognized leader in restorative and relational conflict transformation. Moving beyond the “why” of restorative practice, this session provides both principles and examples to guide everyday situations. Participants will be introduced to frameworks for addressing conflict and harm, and for centring relationships by promoting belonging, accountability, and repair.
What will you learn?
- How a restorative approach can provide a reliable, values-based compass when making decisions about how to address conflict and harm at both the individual and systemic levels
- Common misconceptions about restorative approaches (including deflecting accountability or “losing” authority or power), and how this framework can instead uphold accountability, relationships, and care across systems
- How restorative approaches are being adopted within healthcare settings
- How these approaches are relevant across roles, responsibilities, and power dynamics
- How to foster a proactive, relational culture that supports connection, belonging, and repair
Why this matters
Where there are relationships, conflict and harm are inevitable. Often, people experience harm in isolation, without safe ways to speak up or repair relationships, which can lead to shame, defensiveness, fear of retaliation, and backlash. Over time, this creates a reactive culture that manages incidents rather than strengthening connection.
Relational and restorative approaches shift this dynamic by centring shared values and supporting accountability and repair. By focusing on dignity and relationships, these approaches reduce division, strengthen feedback cultures, and create more connected and resilient learning, clinical, and workplace environments.