Become
What Our World
Needs
Earn your Master’s in
Restorative Practices
A master’s in restorative practices gives you the tools to actively be the change you seek in the world. Our program provides you with the skills and resources to strengthen relationships and improve social connections so you can drive impactful resolutions and positive outcomes throughout classrooms, communities, and organizations.
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Program
Details
No GRE required, but you will need a bachelor’s degree or equivalent to enroll. For more details about applying, explore our program applications page.
Join a global community of committed restorative practitioners
With roots in indigenous cultures from around the world, the Master of Science in Restorative Practices is a globally recognized degree that infuses the integrity and heart of these proven methodologies with the relevant interdisciplinary knowledge to support visionaries like you in creating more reliable and impactful outcomes in your classrooms and community. Learn how to reframe conversations and advance your work through our traditional degree track, two available specializations, or our graduate certificate.
- Education Specialization: Gain the skills to promote a healthy teaching and learning environment through engaging processes that are both proactive and responsive.
- Community Engagement: Learn to increase personal and collective efficacy in your community by creating social conditions for greater well-being and healthier living.
- Graduate Certificate: Establish a firm understanding of how restorative practices work in this four-course program that’s ideal for professionals with an advanced degree or who are still deciding to pursue a full Master of Science degree.
Join a global community of committed restorative practitioners
With roots in indigenous cultures from around the world, the Master of Science in Restorative Practices is a globally recognized degree that infuses the integrity and heart of these proven methodologies with the relevant interdisciplinary knowledge to support visionaries like you in creating more reliable and impactful outcomes in your classrooms and community. Learn how to reframe conversations and advance your work through our traditional degree track, two available specializations, or our graduate certificate.
- Education Specialization: Gain the skills to promote a healthy teaching and learning environment through engaging processes that are both proactive and responsive.
- Community Engagement: Learn to increase personal and collective efficacy in your community by creating social conditions for greater well-being and healthier living.
- Graduate Certificate: Establish a firm understanding of how restorative practices work in this four-course program that’s ideal for professionals with an advanced degree or who are still deciding to pursue a full Master of Science degree.
Kimberly Vindler
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Restorative practices is a field within the social sciences that studies how to strengthen relationships between individuals and improve social connections within communities.
When effective relationships are built ahead of time, it becomes easier to create useful dialogue, address the core issue, and move forward when challenges arise. Restorative practices provides a time-tested methodology for reducing conflict, improving communication, decreasing violence, and cultivating a sense of worth for individuals so our communities can better navigate change, together.
There are many ways you can use your master’s in restorative practices. Most graduates go on to effectively lead teams, classrooms, schools, and organizations in creating resilient, meaningful relationships; cultivating dialogue amidst conflict; improving communication; and facilitating listening circles in their workplaces and communities.
A master’s in restorative practices can also benefit you in a variety of roles, including:
- K-12 teachers, principals, and administrators
- College administrators and professors
- Restorative justice program officers
- Youth and family advocates
- Ministry
- Private consultants
Our roots in alternative education and adolescent residential services provide us with a real understanding of how restorative practices works in different contexts and populations. And our international, interdisciplinary faculty are scholar-practitioners, studying and applying restorative practices in their own communities at national and global levels and bringing fresh perspectives and current insight into the classroom.
Start Your Degree From Anywhere
We developed a flexible curriculum and course structure to support the needs of working professionals like you. Learn from where you live and work while pursuing a study plan that fits your schedule.
Together, we can effect real change
Join hundreds of classroom and community leaders across the world who know that the status quo must be shifted to create much needed change. Schedule a time to speak with our Student Services Team to get started.
