Last Call to Circle Up Film Screening – March 22

Mar 21, 2018 | Events, News, Restorative Justice

A few seats remain for tomorrow’s Circle Up movie screening at Penn Cinema, 7 pm, Thursday, March 22, 2018. The film follows Janet Connors and another mother, Clarissa Turner (pictured in the screenshot below, right to left)  as they reach out to those who...

Restorative Justice with Mark McKenzie on WSBA/WARM103

Jan 21, 2018 | News, Restorative Justice

Listen as Mark McKenzie, from WSBA and WARM103, brings Molly Sollenberger and Chris Fitz on the air, this past fall, to discuss Advoz’s restorative justice through face-to-face dialogue involving crime victims and offenders. Also chronicled on the video Make...

Getting the “why” of Advoz

Jan 16, 2018 | News

From Marina McDonough, Advoz fall intern, sophomore at Harrisburg Area Community College Interning in the Advoz office this past fall, I’ve seen some of the most routine and most interesting parts of the work. During one of our weekly meetings, we went through a group...

Learning from Pennsylvania’s founding dialogue traditions

Dec 18, 2017 | News

By Chris Fitz A version of this article appeared in the Winter 2017-18 issue of The Dialogue. Credit also goes to Gisele Siebold, Natural Awakenings Lancaster, Tom Ryan and Leroy Hopkins of LancasterHistory.org for compiling the story. When European settlers arrived...

Around the Table with Arun Gandhi – You Made It Possible

Aug 29, 2017 | Events, News

With a merger to celebrate, Advoz’s newly formed joint-event team knew it would be a big year. But when the dust settled on the record May 4th event, all were amazed by the turnout of 525 attendees, 128 auction donations and 43 generous sponsors to celebrate the...

Fall Mediation Training – New Three-Day Format

Aug 10, 2017 | Mediation, News, Training

Our intrepid training team has been at the drawing board, crafting a compact and potent Basic Mediation Training in one three-day stretch. The training, which replaces the prior two-part format, still provides professionals and volunteers alike with a high quality...