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"I stand for being of service to others in making, caring for, and keeping healthy our connections with one another in the face of any pain or challenging differences. What do you need to nurture your connections? Do you feel it all begins with our relationship with ourselves? My observation is that restorative justice begins inside our own bodies." Pepper Black, Founder
Berkeley Mediation & Restorative Justice Practices offers problem-solving processes to welcome conflict as an opportunity for our differences to be respected and understood. In creating for you an environment where conflict and opposition are expressed in a way that is safe, enriching and informing, rather than dividing, recurring clashes can be resolved and gridlock transformed into greater connection and harmonious exchange.
Along with other restorative justice practices, Pepper offers you an individual, internal, conflict resolution-based offering as a self-care practice. Triad Tapping is related to EFT, (Emotional Freedom Technique created by Gary Craig) and is one of the tools we can use for self growth and self care. The Tapping technique Pepper teaches, which uses biocognitive science-based and indigenous wisdom cultures, is known as the Triad method of Tapping. The word Triad in this context stands for body, mind, and spirit, and is an indigenous, self-soothing acupuncture point tapping technique based on the multidisciplinary research behind biocognition, combined with information derived from 1,000 year old wisdom cultures.
Thanks to fMRI brain imaging, confirming Tapping's ability to create new neuro-maps in the brain, the process, in resetting the nervous system back to calm, is enhanced with the regulating effects of guided breathing. Brain imaging shows us that this indigenous tapping technique has the capacity to move the flow of neuromapping from the amygdala, the fight or flight preverbal, primitive region of the brain, to regions of the brain where we have more discernment and can comprehend the bigger picture, returning to full comprehension. Acupuncture points have greater vascularity and for this reason can send stronger electric signals to the brain through the stimulation of light tapping.
Pepper teaches initially a "pocket" version of Triad which is quick and easy. This self care version, often effective with children, is an introduction to a more comprehensive traditional program for achieving powerful lasting shifts in our thoughts, emotions, deeds, and speech.
Is Tapping considered a restorative justice process? Yes. Pepper is an avid student of one of her main mentors, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, whose Nonviolent Communication is a model of peacemaking through understanding our own needs. This begins by consulting first, our instinctive knowing. By observing the wisdom of our bodies we witness our patterns of physical sensations related to what we are feeling, to bring us to what we truly need. We discover what what our needs are in the present moment through those feelings manifested as body language. Triad can be viewed as a dialogue with the wisdom of the body, therefore a process for restoring balanced and restorative self and other care.
Philosopher J Krishnamurti called the highest form of human intelligence the skill of observing without evaluating. Where does Triad fit into self observation? Tapping has the miraculous ability to bring to the surface of awareness evaluations and beliefs stored in memory which are associated with our concerns. Once revealed, these no longer haunt us or do we find we are ruminating repeatedly what was left unprocessed.
Using the Nonviolent Communication skillset, Pepper helps us apply life lessons we learn from observing our own patterns and basic universal human needs. Simply pausing to tap, to breathe fully, and ask "What is it I need in this moment?" with the assistance of this somatic technique, can be quite revealing and instructional.
Founder Pepper Black, in practice since 2006, is also available for guest lecturing, consultation, group and individual sessions. She is currently on contract with Ayudando Latino a Sonar, and is a guest lecturer in the Department of Education at University of San Francisco, where she was part of the USF Crisis Response Triage Team prior to the pandemic. The team responded to address the needs of those affected by flood, fire, earthquake, active shooter mass shooting, and the humanitarian crisis at our southern border. Pepper has been working with Bay Area Border Relief as a part of the USF Crisis Response Triage Team, returning half a dozen times in response to the humanitarian crisis in the refugee camps of Matamoros, Mexico.
Pepper has also guest lectured at Santa Clara University, Notre Dame de Namur University, Institute of Public Law, Brasilia, Brazil, the Department of Social and Environmental Sciences at University of California, Berkeley, and Florida International University School of Education. She has taught the Triad method of Tapping in the classroom from elementary school to the college classroom.
After you have reviewed these offered forms of restorative justice practices, a complimentary consultation can help you discover the process best suited for your needs.
Pepper's mentors are numerous, most notably the work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, creator of the
Nonviolent Communication process and cultural psychoneuroimmunologists Dr. Mario Martinez and Dr. George Solomon, as well as Dr. Belinda Hernandez Arriaga, Heike Prevrhal, and many more too numerous to name.
"I stand for being of service to others in making, caring for, and keeping healthy our connections with one another in the face of any pain or challenging differences. What do you need to nurture your connections? Do you feel it all begins with our relationship with ourselves? My observation is that restorative justice begins inside our own bodies." Pepper Black, Founder
Berkeley Mediation & Restorative Justice Practices offers problem-solving processes to welcome conflict as an opportunity for our differences to be respected and understood. In creating for you an environment where conflict and opposition are expressed in a way that is safe, enriching and informing, rather than dividing, recurring clashes can be resolved and gridlock transformed into greater connection and harmonious exchange.
Along with other restorative justice practices, Pepper offers you an individual, internal, conflict resolution-based offering as a self-care practice. Triad Tapping is related to EFT, (Emotional Freedom Technique created by Gary Craig) and is one of the tools we can use for self growth and self care. The Tapping technique Pepper teaches, which uses biocognitive science-based and indigenous wisdom cultures, is known as the Triad method of Tapping. The word Triad in this context stands for body, mind, and spirit, and is an indigenous, self-soothing acupuncture point tapping technique based on the multidisciplinary research behind biocognition, combined with information derived from 1,000 year old wisdom cultures.
Thanks to fMRI brain imaging, confirming Tapping's ability to create new neuro-maps in the brain, the process, in resetting the nervous system back to calm, is enhanced with the regulating effects of guided breathing. Brain imaging shows us that this indigenous tapping technique has the capacity to move the flow of neuromapping from the amygdala, the fight or flight preverbal, primitive region of the brain, to regions of the brain where we have more discernment and can comprehend the bigger picture, returning to full comprehension. Acupuncture points have greater vascularity and for this reason can send stronger electric signals to the brain through the stimulation of light tapping.
Pepper teaches initially a "pocket" version of Triad which is quick and easy. This self care version, often effective with children, is an introduction to a more comprehensive traditional program for achieving powerful lasting shifts in our thoughts, emotions, deeds, and speech.
Is Tapping considered a restorative justice process? Yes. Pepper is an avid student of one of her main mentors, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, whose Nonviolent Communication is a model of peacemaking through understanding our own needs. This begins by consulting first, our instinctive knowing. By observing the wisdom of our bodies we witness our patterns of physical sensations related to what we are feeling, to bring us to what we truly need. We discover what what our needs are in the present moment through those feelings manifested as body language. Triad can be viewed as a dialogue with the wisdom of the body, therefore a process for restoring balanced and restorative self and other care.
Philosopher J Krishnamurti called the highest form of human intelligence the skill of observing without evaluating. Where does Triad fit into self observation? Tapping has the miraculous ability to bring to the surface of awareness evaluations and beliefs stored in memory which are associated with our concerns. Once revealed, these no longer haunt us or do we find we are ruminating repeatedly what was left unprocessed.
Using the Nonviolent Communication skillset, Pepper helps us apply life lessons we learn from observing our own patterns and basic universal human needs. Simply pausing to tap, to breathe fully, and ask "What is it I need in this moment?" with the assistance of this somatic technique, can be quite revealing and instructional.
Founder Pepper Black, in practice since 2006, is also available for guest lecturing, consultation, group and individual sessions. She is currently on contract with Ayudando Latino a Sonar, and is a guest lecturer in the Department of Education at University of San Francisco, where she was part of the USF Crisis Response Triage Team prior to the pandemic. The team responded to address the needs of those affected by flood, fire, earthquake, active shooter mass shooting, and the humanitarian crisis at our southern border. Pepper has been working with Bay Area Border Relief as a part of the USF Crisis Response Triage Team, returning half a dozen times in response to the humanitarian crisis in the refugee camps of Matamoros, Mexico.
Pepper has also guest lectured at Santa Clara University, Notre Dame de Namur University, Institute of Public Law, Brasilia, Brazil, the Department of Social and Environmental Sciences at University of California, Berkeley, and Florida International University School of Education. She has taught the Triad method of Tapping in the classroom from elementary school to the college classroom.
After you have reviewed these offered forms of restorative justice practices, a complimentary consultation can help you discover the process best suited for your needs.
Pepper's mentors are numerous, most notably the work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, creator of the
Nonviolent Communication process and cultural psychoneuroimmunologists Dr. Mario Martinez and Dr. George Solomon, as well as Dr. Belinda Hernandez Arriaga, Heike Prevrhal, and many more too numerous to name.
To explore together finding the right tools to apply to your situation, call
(510) 984-4581, or fill out the Contact section below. Urgent contact can be made through my cell phone at
(510) 867-9616 Thanks. Pepper Black
(510) 984-4581, or fill out the Contact section below. Urgent contact can be made through my cell phone at
(510) 867-9616 Thanks. Pepper Black
Services
Family Group Decision-Making
Honoring families as experts of their own needs
This family group conference originated in New Zealand wherein a restorative justice practitioner informs and discusses with the family the expectations and services and resources available to support the family’s plan, with parameters and goals clearly established. Then as the most radical feature of this process, the practitioner leaves the room, for a given period of time, allowing for “family alone time” empowering the family to agree on solutions in private discussion.
Family and Group Mediation
Resolving conflict between parties with concrete effects
The mediator creates a safe environment for participants to discover solutions by agreeing to communicate until the mediation session concludes with an agreement or to agreeably disagree with next steps in place, until solutions are found that work for both parties.
EFT is also known as “Tapping”. The Triad Method - is based on biocognitive science in reference to mind, body, and spirit experienced within our culture. Mind is in this context a reference to conscious awareness, and body as including the biology of the human brain.
Honoring families as experts of their own needs
This family group conference originated in New Zealand wherein a restorative justice practitioner informs and discusses with the family the expectations and services and resources available to support the family’s plan, with parameters and goals clearly established. Then as the most radical feature of this process, the practitioner leaves the room, for a given period of time, allowing for “family alone time” empowering the family to agree on solutions in private discussion.
Family and Group Mediation
Resolving conflict between parties with concrete effects
The mediator creates a safe environment for participants to discover solutions by agreeing to communicate until the mediation session concludes with an agreement or to agreeably disagree with next steps in place, until solutions are found that work for both parties.
- Restorative Conferences and Circles
Linking issues and interests to greater good outcomes
Between two people or as a group, conferences and circles are an invitation for open communication. A formal conference or an informal circle can include reparation of harm through these restorative justice processes. A more comprehensive explanation of a chosen process is given to you through consultation. - Harm Prevention, Behavioral First Aid & Violent Critical Incident Management Training
Prevention for the best outcome while being prepared for the worst
This training equips an organization or business to begin the practice of training to safely respond to a targeted violence incident. In addition training is offered in how to identify potentially violent individuals and groups, and how to get them help before they resort to violent acts. Pepper can also explain how your organization can become certified for ongoing safety training through the ALICE Institute. - Restorative Dialogues
Dialogue between those harmed and those who have done harm
This is a scripted mediated exchange between parties in order for everyone to be heard and understood and agree to reparation of harm - The Triad Method of Tapping Series for individuals and groups by a certified trainer
EFT is also known as “Tapping”. The Triad Method - is based on biocognitive science in reference to mind, body, and spirit experienced within our culture. Mind is in this context a reference to conscious awareness, and body as including the biology of the human brain.
- The Triad Method is a nervous system resetting tool; a personal growth, stress, and trauma-releasing somatic technique utilizing an indigenous, self-soothing, repetitive, gentle finger tapping on acupuncture meridian points on the upper torso, along with a guided dialogue.
- As we expand our knowledge of the human brain, and greater respect for the "wisdom" of our bodies, we gain understanding of the ways in which such embodied psychological and emotional states can be navigated for enhancing health and well being. The Triad method is used as a daily self care practice for peacemaking inside one's own body/mind/spirit. We have vast internal resources, and Triad is one of many means for accessing our best selves.
- Guided self-dialogue while tapping is useful for relief from traumatic experience and other adverse and haunting experiences. Tapping can be used as a part of a mental health support system, for stress management, daily self care, and to challenge belief systems for an enhanced quality of life.
The American Psychological Association recognizes EFT as an evidence-based practice.
- Read more about Fees, Additional Specialized Services and Training
- Pepper's personal experience with The Triad Method of Tapping .
Meet Pepper
Pepper Black is a Harvard and University of California certified mediator, has certified as a victim offender dialogue practitioner through Insight Prison Project, is a certified trainer by the EFT Institute, has licensed in restorative justice practices training by International Institute of Restorative Practices, and is certified as a violent critical incident management trainer through ALICE Training Institute.
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Contact & Scheduling
Call (510) 984-4581 to discuss scheduling.
For other enquiries please use the contact form below.
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