Photo Galleries

Lorenn and Dawn Slaten, Esq., meet with Yvette Brown (left), restorative practitioner and social worker from Bermuda at Ali'iolani Hale.

9th Annual Parole Completion Celebration honoring the hard work of people completing parole and those who helped them.

Lorenn presents on restorative justice and schools at the annual Peace Day Conference.

Lorenn trains 40 people who work with incarcerated youth and adults to facilitate reentry circles.

Lorenn competes in the 2017 Transrockies Run. 120 miles, 20,000 feet of climbing, six days.

Lorenn visits restorative justice practitioners and healers in Tahiti

She also wins her division of the Xterra Tahiti Race.

8th Annual Parole Completion Celebration Hawai'i, Ali’iolani Hale, Supreme Court, November 9, 2016

June 29, 2016. Patricia Boone Northwestern University Law graduate, important connector and all time inspiring person with Lorenn, one of her biggest fans!

Lorenn participates in restoritive justice seminars in Greece.

June 10, 2016 Antonio Buonatesta, director Mediante Belgium, with Lorenn, at his Namur office about an hour train ride from Brussels. Antonio is doing excellent restorative justice work. He also kindly mailed back Lorenn’s race gear to Hawai’i that she needed to do the Belgium xterra the next day!

Community Justice Circle at Hawai’i Supreme Court with professor Angela Davis, Hawai’i Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald and other members of the Hawai’i justice community.

Lorenn met with the amazing Katherine Katcher, Founder & Executive Director of Roots and Rebound in Oakland, California to learn more about the amazing work she and this organization are doing. Learn more at http://www.rootandrebound.org/about-us.

Alan Seeber, Asst Probation Division Chief and Marlon Yarber, Asst. Chief Probation, Scramento, January 11, 2015 Scramento day reporting center for probationers.

Erika Hill Brigham Young University Hawai’i graduate and organizer of a restorative justice forum, with poster she prepared announcing a workshop Lorenn provided for the BYU community on December 15, 2015.

Lorenn’s mention in the Hawai’i State Bar Journal for winning the solo women’s division of the O’ahu 24 hour mountain bike race.

November 2015 Waipahu, Hawai’i Seed of Peace Workshop.

Lorenn providing the keynote presentation at the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association’s November 6, 2015 annual conference in Wilmington, North Carolina http://www.sfbta.org/conferences/2015.html

Penny Griffith and Lorenn provide a workshop on solution focused conflict management at the University of North Carolina 11.5.15.

2015 Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice Parole Celebration.

As a Senior Fulbright Specialist Lorenn provided a 10 hour training for Basque Ministry of Justice affiliated agencies and individuals on a variety of restorative and solution-focused group processes for conflict management and dealing with wrongdoing.

Lorenn worked on peacemaking projects for a month as a Fulbright Specialist program for the Victimology Society of Serbia. The team (more like a family) included those pictured here director Vesna Nikolicristanovic, reserachers Sanja Copic, Bejan Saciri, Nikola Petrovic and visiting Australian Michelle Leveljan.

It was an inspiring week with phenomenal restorative justice contributors Howard Zehr, Kay Pranis, Dan Van Ness, Mark Umbreit, Ali Gohar, Kim Workman, Robert Yazzie, Fania Davis, Theo Gavrielides, Carolyn Boyes-Watson, Brenda Morrison, Sujata Baliga and OTHERs including the wonderful 20 year old Cameron Simmons whose love, smile and laughter were especially treasured. Missed John Braithwaite who was there is spirit!

Lorenn works with Michael Davis, police chief at Northeastern University, to provide a community building workshop using restorative justice with some of the training participants — event was sponsored by Collaborative Solutions for Communities www.wearecsc.org

Walker-Saraniti 3 generation family which placed 1st overall female relay team finishers at Hale’iwa sprint triathlon — Lorenn did the biking, Francesca (11 yrs old and granddaughter to Lorenn) did the running, and Samantha (Daughter to Lorenn & mom to Francesca) did the swimming.

Lorenn met with amazing juvenile detention center administrator Lynn Viner, Joe Langen & Bev Ashton - at the Juvenile Corrections Center in Nampa (outside Boise).

2014 HFRJ Parole Celebration. Photos by Robyn Pfahl.

One definition of harm reduction provided by Dr. Patt Denning, Director of Clinical Services and Training for the Harm Reduction Therapy Center of Oakland, California and the author of “Harm Reduction Psychotherapy.