Daniel Solis
Institutional Transformation at Confluence Rising
Daniel Solis
Daniel E. Solís is the Vice President of Institutional Transformation at Confluence Rising, where he leads organizational change, Equity and Restorative Justice training, coaching, and conflict facilitation services focused on adults in businesses, nonprofits, universities, K-12 schools, and government agencies. Focused on creating learning opportunities for organizations to shift their culture, policies, practices, and relationships to be more connected, equitable and restorative, Daniel is excited working with partners to create real and effective change. Living in Ohio and Southern California, Daniel has worked for over 20 years, locally and nationwide, in providing engaging and challenging trainings, designing and facilitating conflict processes, implementing Equity frameworks and practices, and creating accessible and relevant organizational change processes.
A firm believer in the power of culture work to create authentic personal and collective change, Daniel prioritizes building the power and vision of others to create and sustain cultures of transformation. This approach guides his work within Confluence Rising and with external partners, and informs his interest in using organizational policies and learning systems as anchors for cultural change.
Beginning his career in youth leadership development, Daniel has extensive experience working with middle and high school aged youth ranging from afterschool programs to arts-based leadership development, to youth-led organizing for racial and gender justice. As a successful participant in various social justice youth leadership programs - NCCJ Los Angeles’ Brotherhood-Sisterhood Camp, the Salvadoran American Leadership and Educational Fund’s Civic Leadership Program, and serving as a Gay-Straight Alliance club leader in high school – Daniel understands firsthand the transformative power that comes from youth working in alliance with adults to build a better world.
SESSION OVERVIEW
Identities & Inequities In Youth Relationships & Communities: Strategies for Navigating Identity-Driven Conflict
Youth routinely are in conflict with each other and with adults. However, when youth engage in conflict connected to larger societal groups like racial identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, or gender identity, they can experience and cause much deeper harm. With the current larger social and political battles raging across the country and within schools and communities, youth are facing these kinds of conflicts at an increasing rate, and often have no support for navigating what they’re experiencing.
In this session, we’ll explore what identity-driven conflicts are, how they are rooted in systemic inequities, and often create harm and disconnection that ripple out beyond the individuals involved. We’ll examine common examples of identity-driven conflicts that can occur at school, within families, in service provider agencies, and out in the community.
We will learn about tools based in Restorative Justice values that can be effective ways to guide youth to share their experiences, take authentic accountability in developmentally-appropriate ways and understand the complex harm they caused, helping to begin the process of individual and community reconnection and healing.
Finally, we will practice using these Restorative Justice tools in realistic scenarios adults service providers are likely to encounter when working with youth. Participants will leave this training with a workbook that will include all concepts and tools, and space for them to map out how they will apply what they learned in their work with youth. The workbook will also include resources for participants to continue their learning.
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