Claire de Mézerville López welcomes Kiyaana Cox Jones, M.S., an educator, advocate, and Restorative Practitioner. Kiyaana has served in Higher Education as an Assistant Director of Multicultural Life and in K-12 education as Coordinator of Equity and Inclusion. She now serves as an Instructor and Implementation Coach for the IIRP, and as part-time faculty teaching Culture and Identity at the new Touchstone/Moravian MFA program. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Howard University and a Master of Science in Restorative Practices from the IIRP.
Kiyaana bridges the gap between restorative practices and the theatre with her interactive restorative healing theatre, The Brave Space On Stage. Through theater, Kiyaana provides the space and tools for people to build relationships with themselves and others. Using the social discipline window as a framework, Kiyaana teaches radical self-care that is reflective, creative, and exploratory as a conduit to healing and becoming one’s most authentic self.
Kiyaana explains her experience with racial trauma and how she needed to find ways to reckon with her pain and displacement. That process began by engaging with herself in a restorative way, being with herself, which led her to being more restorative with others. She integrates restorative practices, art, creativity, and self-care in ways that resonate with students, teachers, staff, and administration. With this, she challenges us to become our best selves by investigating what it means to practice self-care for the betterment of ourselves as well as our communities.
Tune in to learn more about Kiyaana’s work in restorative theater and the importance of self-care as essential to doing restorative work.
