We’re on a mission to give survivors of sexual harm access to restorative justice.
The Problem:
Sexual violence harms individuals and communities alike. Survivors lack safe spaces to be heard and supported, while those who cause harm rarely have opportunities to take accountability in meaningful ways. These gaps leave trauma unaddressed, relationships strained, and cultures of silence intact.
The Failure of Punitive Responses:
Survivors have the option of seeking a criminal prosecution, a lawsuit, a human resource investigation in workplace settings, and a Title IX investigation in school settings. These interventions focus on the person who caused harm: identifying which rule was broken, proving guilt, and imposing a punishment. This approach exacerbates the trauma of survivors as well as the problematic behavior of people who cause sexual harm.
The Solution:
Just People offers restorative pathways that bring healing, accountability, and community support into the response to sexual harm. Through facilitated dialogues, circles, and trainings, we create spaces where survivors voices and needs are at the center of the process, where those who caused harm can take responsibility, and where relationships and cultures can begin to repair.
Meet our Founder:
Sarah Super
Sarah Super is a facilitator, an advocate, and a rape survivor.
Prior to Just People, Sarah founded and led Break the Silence for six years: an initiative that created trauma-informed platforms for survivors of sexual violence to publicly share their names and stories as a tactic to make change in their communities. In doing that work, Sarah saw how frequently communities responded to these stories by simply trying to ignore survivors or by seeking punishment for the people who caused them harm. But silence and punishment fail and miss the larger truth: sexual violence is a cultural problem that all of us play a role in fixing.
Today, Sarah facilitates restorative processes that support individuals, teams, and organizations in addressing sexual harm directly. She brings a background in learning & development, community organizing, and systems change, along with a Master’s degree in Human Resource Development, a graduate certificate in Restorative Justice, and Bachelors’ degrees in American Studies and Sociology.
Our Services
Our services help you to navigate sexual harm outside of the legal system. Minnesota Statute protects statements made and documents created within a restorative practice from being admissible as evidence in criminal and civil court.
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Voluntary, intentional conversations between people who have been victimized and people who have caused harm. This could be a 1-1 facilitated dialogue or a facilitated circle process with everyone involved (and their support people).
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People often do not know what to do or how to respond after someone in their life has experienced sexual harm. We help gather friends, family and community members to support the survivor and community’s healing process.
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Let us help you navigate the brave conversations when sexual harm impacts your organization.
We can support your rapid response to sexual harm, help rebuild relationships after sexual harm, and prevent sexual harm through proactive culture-building dialogues. Contact us for pricing and more information.
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We provide community education, facilitator training, and customized trainings on topics of trauma, accountability, apologies, and repair processes.
Upcoming Trainings
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Second Sundays with Amber Schroeder
November 8, 2026
9:30 - 10:45 AM Central
Zoom
Join Sarah Super and Amber Schroeder, the Executive Director of the national Association for the Treatment & Prevention of Sexual Abuse, for a conversation on the treatment for people who have caused sexual offenses.
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Second Sundays with Alicia Nichols
December 13, 2026
9:30 - 10:45 AM Central
Zoom
Join Sarah Super and Alicia Nichols, Director of the MN Office of Restorative Practices, for a conversation on transforming systems to be restorative in principle and practice.
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Facilitator Training: Restorative Circles for Sexual Harm with Kay Pranis
January 13 - 15, 2027
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Central
Waḳaƞ Ṭípi Center
St. Paul, MinnesotaIn this three-day experiential training, participants will learn how to thoughtfully design and facilitate Circles for survivors, Circles for people who have caused sexual harm, Circles for families and friends, and Circles for communities impacted by harm.
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Facilitator Training: Restorative Dialogues for Sexual Harm with Alissa Ackerman
March 29 - 31, 2027
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Central
Waḳaƞ Ṭípi Center
St. Paul, MinnesotaIn this three-day experiential training, participants will learn how to prepare for and facilitate restorative dialogues involving sexual harm, with particular attention to readiness, safety, choice, and the needs of everyone involved. We’ll also explore the use of surrogate dialogue, in which someone can engage with a person representing the role of a survivor or a person who has caused harm when direct dialogue is not wanted, possible, or appropriate.
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Facilitator Training: Transformative Mediation for Sexual Harm with Dan Simon
April 28 - 30, 2027
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Central
Waḳaƞ Ṭípi Center
St. Paul, MinnesotaIn this three-day experiential training, participants will learn to use Transformative Mediation to help people navigate the conflicts that ripple outward after sexual harm. Rather than prescribing solutions or pushing people toward agreement, Transformative Mediation supports people in reclaiming their own voice, choices, and sense of agency while opening possibilities for greater understanding and recognition.
“Survivors of violence, who know in their bones the truths that many others would prefer not to know, can lead the way to a new understanding of justice. The first step is simply to ask survivors what would make things right - or as right as possible - for them. This sounds like such a reasonable thing to do, but in practice, it is hardly ever done. Listening, therefore, turns out to be a radical act.”
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Tax deductible gifts can be made via our fiscal sponsor, Social Good Fund, to support our programs and provide free restorative processes to survivors of sexual violence.
© Just People
Just People is a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization, Tax ID (EIN) 46-1323531.