The Healing and Reconciliation Institute works toward a more resilient future by bridging Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives, addressing historical and ongoing harms by facilitating a framework for repair.
The summer 2025 Peacemaking Camp, to be held in the setting of Monterey County’s stunning coastal hills, will be a four-day leadership training and culture arts camp for the young future leaders and knowledge bearers of the Central Coast’s Native American groups and Tribes. It will not only provide practical conflict transformation skills and capacity building workshops but will also feature interpersonal communication exercises, the making of traditional herbal remedies and tinctures, beadwork lessons, nature walks with Native elders, land conservation and traditional ecological practices, tanning lessons, cultural foods, and more. This Peacemaking Camp has been designed following the request and guidance of HRI’s Native advisors and collaborators, with the intention of promoting future governance, sovereignty, stewardship, and inter-tribal unity across the Central Coast and beyond.
[The City of Watsonville] engaged HRI to build capacity for one of our community committees that was grounded in DEI principles. What they delivered allowed us to strengthen a small, close-knit group to allow us to grow. Not only in numbers but also along our individual life paths and relationships with one another and the land"
- Toto Vu Duc
