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What You'll Master In This Workshop
Understand how to interrupt harmful behavior and navigate conflict without abandoning your organization's anti-oppressive values, damaging your relationships, or causing unintended harm to your Black, queer, and marginalized community members using the 5 R's of Restorative Accountability framework
Build a clear, consistent step-by-step accountability system that centers repair, honors autonomy, and challenges behaviors that replicate white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and other systems of oppression that show up in in real-world scenarios—even when power dynamics exist or professional and interpersonal relationships overlap within your team
Learn how to design and implement repair-driven strategies that directly name, disrupt, and prevent harmful behaviors/practices without escalating tension or relying on punitive approaches that replicate oppressive systems
Discover practical and sustainable techniques for facilitating repair conversations that encourage behavior change, strengthen relationships, and deepen trust among your community members
Meet Your Accountability & Culture Strategist
Michelle Nicole
Community Accountability Strategist & Restorative Justice Consultant
As a criminologist turned justice consultant with years of experience guiding equity-driven nonprofits and community-based collectives in building cultures of accountability rooted in care, anti-oppression, and collective responsibility, I am deeply passionate about building spaces where all of us can experience the safety and equity we deserve. My mission is to help you build the language, skills, and structures you need to address community harm in ways that deepen your community relationships and create radical safety for the Black, Latine, and Indigenous women and queer folks of color that you serve. Whether you're a nonprofit founder or leadership member, or you're a community-builder, practitioner, or organizer leading or participating in a community-based collective, this workshop will serve as a starting point to building your capacity for relational and sustainable repair-driven accountability practices that feel equitable for you and the community members you serve.
Hold Your Community Members Accountable For Harm While Staying Grounded & Value-Aligned Even When Conflict Is High & Capacity Is Low
You've been trying to address harmful behaviors in your equity-driven organization or community space, but now you want to build the skills to navigate these dynamics in real time so you can stop feeling so stuck during conflict. You know traditional accountability approaches often replicate the very oppressive systems we're trying to dismantle. They escalate tension, trigger shame, leave relationships fractured, and often lead to the collapse of community spaces doing impactful liberation work. This is why you need a different way forward that reflects the type of world you want to build. In this live workshop, you'll discover how restorative accountability practices can help you transform conflict into an opportunity for deeper connection, trust, and safety. You'll walk away with the 5 R's of Restorative Accountability—a system rooted in restorative justice that encourages genuine repair, honors your collective liberation values, and builds real safety for your marginalized community members. Whether you're managing overlapping professional and personal relationships or navigating complex team dynamics as you try to prevent and respond to harm in your organization, this framework gives you the language, skills, and tools to interrupt harm sustainably, without avoidance, urgency, or shame-based responses.
What Participants Are Saying
Organizations and community leaders like you are already using the 5 R's framework to build safer and more equitable and accountable spaces. Here's what they've experienced in similar learning experiences.
After (AYA accountability coaching program), I am now MUCH more confident speaking up and naming harm I see. Working with Michelle has been a necessary part of my journey and without her coaching, insightful reflections and meaningful examples, I don't think I could have taken all the huge steps I did in becoming a more unapologetic voice against racism, harm, and oppression in my communities.
Lawyer, Organizer, and Founder of Legally Unconventional
Michelle Nicole's frameworks finally gave me a way to confront harmful behavior with my senior and junior team members (even when it was unintentional) in a way that doesn't reproduce the systems we're fighting against. Now when taking an action that scares me or makes me anxious, I see that these are signs the action is worthwhile as it is challenging the status quo. I have also gotten so much more practice communicating more directly and having conversations with the goal of engaging others in restorative justice values. Now I have some powerful language and tools to approach difficult accountability conversations with greater compassion, clarity, and groundedness.
Clinical Social Worker at a US nonprofit agency
Before joining (AYA accountability coaching program), I was navigating how to effectively call someone out, how to better navigate rupture and conflict and how to turn inwards and work within my own limitations around perfectionism, shame, and disconnection to my sense of empowerment and my voice and value. Now I feel less alone and overwhelmed by the calling to disrupt oppression and I feel more accepting and trusting of my authenticity and assets in healing justice work. The work in this program allowed me to work through my challenges and skillfully navigate complex experiences & scenarios (involving harm) with others.
Liberatory Psychologist, Trauma-Informed Healing Justice Practitioner, and Founder of Azaad Healing Justice Studio
Move From Justice Theory To Justice Practice
Learn the critical shift you need to implement so you can help create a space where anti-oppression, equity, and inclusion values aren't just something your community members believe in and talk about, they're actively practiced even when conflict happens
Create A Culture Of Restorative Accountability
Build a shared culture with your co-founders, team members, staff, and community members so you can collectively work under the same understandings and expectations when navigating community accountability
Build Your Capacity & Power
Learn how to engage with accountability practices more consistently and responsibly even when fear, resentment, defensiveness, and burnout are present within you or your community members
Ready to Transform Harm Using The Power Of Restorative Accountability?
You don't have to chose between confronting harm and maintaining your community relationships. This 2-hour workshop is designed for nonprofit leaders/team members, community builders, organizers, and equity-driven practitioners & professionals who are committed to building accountability systems that actually create pathways to real behavior change. By the end of this workshop, you'll leave with a clear framework, practical tools, and the confidence to navigate harmful patterns of behavior with courage and care, but this is just your first step. At the end of this workshop, I'm opening enrollment for my coaching program Real Accountability Reset where you'll be get targeted strategies and my direct support as you implement this full system within your organization or community container. This coaching container will give you a dedicated space to discuss challenges that come up as you build the language, skills, and structure to navigate patterns of harm and conflict in your community spaces across three months with my direct feedback and support as your consultant and strategist.
$37.00