What we do...
SEEDS Community Resolution Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community-based organization that has been providing mediation, facilitation, training, and restorative justice to residents, organizations, and schools in the Bay Area since 1983.
Workshops and Training. SEEDS offers high quality workshops in conflict resolution and transformation, and trainings for mediation certificate training and in restorative justice and restorative practices to individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, and city agencies. It is an integral part of the SEEDS mission to sow these skills, processes, and ways of being in relationship as widely as possible throughout our communities. Our focus is to create a safe space that enables the restoration of relationships and community healing through dialogue.
Restorative Justice. SEEDS is committed to grounding our work in restorative justice principles and practices. These principles guide how our organization communicates, makes decisions, builds relationships, and serves our communities.
SEEDS recognizes that the achievement of our vision will require profound and sustained changes in the way our society understands, relates to, and seeks to prevent and resolve conflict. Sustained effort to disrupt current patterns of power, privilege, and oppression and achieve equity in our communities is necessary.
In our work, we seek to engage and empower individuals in a manner that contributes to shifting the distribution of power and privilege in our society at the relational and interpersonal level.
We actively cultivate and integrate recognition, among ourselves and among participants in our trainings and processes, that patterns of power, privilege, and oppression contribute to and shape interpersonal and intergroup challenges and conflicts.
Our particular mission and competencies are focused on developing skills and capacities and providing services that support effective dialogue. Such dialogue builds bridges and relationships among diverse individuals and groups that prevents challenges from becoming open conflicts, supports collaborative problem-solving, and leads to non-violent resolution of conflicts and the restoration of relationships when conflicts do occur.
We advocate for universal access to conflict resolution training, skills, and services in the communities and organizations in which we work.
We recognize that our work is necessary but not sufficient to change the laws, policies, and formal institutions that structure power in our society. That work is best undertaken by organizations that have developed the competencies and resources for effective organizing and activism.