We are honored to welcome Internationally-Renowned Restorative Justice Leader Hedda van Lieshout to join us and offer her expertise on Family Conferencing during our 2025 Mexico Retreat. Hedda is currently the director of Eigen-Kracht, a Dutch non-profit “striving for a society based on participation and mutual self-reliance of citizens, where citizens remain in charge of their own life, especially when dealing with organizations and government bodies.” Eigen-Kracht run restorative conferences, as well as Family Group Conferencing (FGC), which act as an alternative to family court or child protective services. Eigen-Kracht has run over 13,500 Family Group Conferences, restorative conferences, and community conferences. They have over 250 conference coordinators, who speak between them sixty-five languages. Hedda will join us in Mexico to discuss Family Group Conferencing, and lead discussions on how we can implement FGC in the States.