12 episodes

A podcast dedicated to inspiring the next generation of radically empathetic decision makers. Join us as we dive into restorative justice, and the impact these practices can have on our world.

Inspiring Radical Empathy Stomping Ground

    • Arts
    • 4.9 • 30 Ratings

A podcast dedicated to inspiring the next generation of radically empathetic decision makers. Join us as we dive into restorative justice, and the impact these practices can have on our world.

    We're Research Stomping Ground with The Camper Board

    We're Research Stomping Ground with The Camper Board

    What if kids were the researchers? In the second phase of our exploration into the Stomping Ground research project, we welcomed two remarkable members of our Camper Board. We delved into their hopes for the project, drawing from their extensive experience as longtime Stomping Ground campers.  Our conversation was a blend of playful curiosity and deep insights, exploring data collection techniques, analyzing golden ages, wrestling with ethical dilemmas around consent and anonymity, and brainstorming ways to infuse joy into data gathering! It was a fun and profound discussion that left me feeling inspired. The Camper Board is an experiment in trust and their leadership in this project continues to demonstrate the immense power and capability of kids.

    • 32 min
    We're Researching Stomping Ground

    We're Researching Stomping Ground

    Data makes the world go round. In this episode, we're joined by Tina and Maddy, our incredible partners from SUNY Geneseo who have been helping us design and conduct a research project about camp for the past couple of years. We believe that kids become more radically empathetic decision makers by practicing, and we're collecting the research to back it up. We talk about what shape this project has taken in the past, all that we've learned, and where it's going next summer and beyond. We are shifting to a much more camper-led approach, we talk about sharing power with youth and partnering with them to create a project that they're excited and passionate about. We also talk about how empowering it is to learn how to read data and how learning even basic research skills can open up doors of possibilities. Join us for an exciting conversation and stay tuned for part two where we talk with our Camper Board about their hopes and dreams for this research project.

    • 31 min
    The River

    The River

    For our season finale, we welcome on Lynda and Clayton from the Center for Dispute Settlement. This five episode run was all about bringing you real stories from real people who experienced the power of restorative justice. These two come with a wealth of knowledge and examples of how this work can impact our greater communities. With restorative practices we can start to understand what it means to forgive, heal, and learn in community. 

    • 56 min
    Healing Through the Arts

    Healing Through the Arts

    One of our values at camp is unbounded creativity. Often that means how we make up games, silly characters, and imaginative adventures at Stomping Ground. But we also understand creative practices can enhance restorative practices. In this episode we chat with two different artists. Jade, a photographer and teaching artist who has worked with camp before, and Eli, a music therapist in Rochester NY.

    • 30 min
    The Power of Grief Circles

    The Power of Grief Circles

    Grief is an emotion that often can be scary and difficult to address within ourselves. How do we move on and remember a loved one who has passed away? How do we find empathy in those moments? Join us as we sit with Alex and Bianca from the Gandhi Institute, and we talk through how circles can act as a tool for processing grief. 

    • 51 min
    Mental Health Courts

    Mental Health Courts

    Restorative justice might be considered an "alternative form" of justice. But what we don't realize is these ideas and values show up in more traditional settings than we realize each day as we continue to push this work. Today we have on Kristina and Johanna, who talk about their experience working in and through mental health courts, and how these programs can offer folks more capabilities to address the harm they have caused and work through their own internal conflicts. 

    • 34 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
30 Ratings

30 Ratings

lyjasm ,

Exactly what we need right now

These ideas are so vital right now and this podcast is a great, fun way of getting them across to a wider audience. Camp Stomping Ground is clearly an amazing camp but, as this podcast shows, it is so much more than that - it’s an approach to respectfully living with one another, learning and growing and having fun together. So much to learn and share here!

fgreyn ,

YES!!

I suggest that the biggest miracle in this program is the potential for scale-up. What you are repeatedly sharing with 150 campers has almost infinite implications on a world-class level! I can’t think of a better Incubator.

marshmellow lady ,

Simply wonderful!

What a refreshing look at justice and ways to deal with conflict !
I liked the personal and camp examples, as well the historical perspective. Well done, I will certainly listen to the whole season!

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