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WORKSHOPS WITH JUDITH TRUSTONE (founder of SageWriters)

Judith combines her traditional education and training in social work with her 14-year apprenticeship with Sun Bear, a medicine man from the Ojibway tribe, her creative writing classes, her training in Vipassana meditation, her innovative programs and her years of leading “Healing Circles” and other workshops around the country to bring a unique range of skills and experiences to her many projects. Workshops require a minimum of ten participants. Costs available upon request.

Healing Justice: A Course for High Schools"
with Judith Trustone

A ten-week journey into Shadow America, our prisons, with information, art, music and writing by prisoners and advocates for change, films and speakers, with an emphasis on creative solutions to our broken criminal justice system and its effects on all of us. Course description available upon request

SAGEWRITERS ASSOCIATES

In addition to our books, the training arm of SageWriters brings innovative programs, workshops and transformational experiences to organizations, groups and individuals. Pioneering a fresh, creative approach to healing our broken justice system, empowerment to the powerless, healing and inspiration to families, advocates and those working in the system.

Judith Trustone & Gale Campanello Muhammad, Co-Directors

PARTIAL LIST OF WORKSHOPS, TRAINING & INDIVIDUAL CONSULTATIONS

Stress Survival Skills (includes the popular “Chocolate Meditation”)
“Nurturing the Nurturers” (for human service workers and caretakers)
“Soothing and Nurturing the Human Spirit” for any group
Re-Entry Healing Through Writing Circles
“ Developing Programs That Make A Difference”
“Journeying into Shadow America”
“Ceremonies for Life Transitions”
“A One-Day Mini-Vacation” (for overwhelmed agencies’ staffs)
“Healing Circles” for any group
“Stress Management Programs”
“The Healing Power of Giving Voice to the Voiceless”
“The Healing Power of Writing”
“Women Who Never Give Up” for those with a loved one in prison
“Doing Time On The Outside: Preparing Families for Re-Entry”

Judith Trustone is the founder and director of SageWriters, co-directed “Justice Month” a series of 26 events in March 2007 in Philadelphia related to the justice system, and “Locked Up: Keys to Prison Change”, a conference on alternatives to prison, and she is the creator of the unique “Healing with Words” program. She was one of the founders of Women in Transition, was the first Director of Women’s Programs at Eagleville Rehabilitation Center, serves on the board of Innocence Denied and is working with others to create Houses of Healing in communities. She hosts a weekly internet radio show, “Healing Justice,” and is developing Justice programs for high schools and colleges.

Gale Campanella Muhammad is founder and CEO of NJ based Women Who Never give Up, an advocacy group for families of prisoners, and she is a consultant to American Community Partners, a construction trades pre-apprenticeship program for women and minorities, and she also serves on the NAACP Prison Justice Coalition. She partners with Pilgrimage Outreach Inc. with Re-Entry programs. Her husband, Tariq Muhammad, an innocent man, died in prison before he could be freed. She is the granddaughter of baseball’s Hall of Fame’s Roy Campanella, who is now on the Black Heritage postage stamp.