Volunteer
As a volunteer with Six Rivers Dispute Resolution Center Services, your time, commitment and efforts are greatly appreciated and highly valued. Thank you for your interest in becoming a part of a growing commitment to the peaceful resolution of conflict!
Board Member Service
We maintain a board of 7 people on 2-year terms that alternate annually. The board is responsible for ensuring the financial well-being of the organization, as well as ensuring that the strategic mission and vision of Six Rivers is achieved. The board meets monthly, with breaks in August and December, and the overall time commitment is about 5 hours/month. Please contact us if you are interested in potentially serving as a board member.
Volunteers with our Restorative Justice Program
Six Rivers has opportunities for volunteers to participate in our restorative justice program. Restorative justice seeks to examine the impact of an act of harm on a survivor and then determines what can be done to repair that harm while holding the person who caused harm accountable for their actions.
Volunteers participate in circle meetings which address harms between individuals. Since harm between two people also impacts a community, it is important to have volunteers from the community who also participate in circles. To volunteer with this program, you must participate in a training and commit to the entire length of a circle process.
Volunteer Mediators
To volunteer with Six Rivers DRC as a community mediator, you must complete the Basic Mediation Training and Practicum requirements. More information at https://6rivers.org/training/. The 40 hour Basic Mediation training is offered at various other locations throughout the state and by other Community Dispute Resolution Programs. Six Rivers is able to accept a limited number of students in our Mediator Practicum Program each year.
For more information about volunteer opportunities, contact us at .
Six Rivers' Mediator Guild:
Continuing Education Series
Tuesdays!
When: 1st Tuesday of each month, during the lunch hour (12:00-1:00)
Where: Zoom
To Attend: please email Lori at
Tentative Schedule (subject to change)
Tues November 5th: Is Election Day, which can be a stressful day. Therefore, we are offering an Election Day circle support session. We will use a circle process to reflect on the following questions:
- If the election does not go the way you would like it to, today, what are steps you can take to take care of yourself- tonight, this week and after?
- What are concrete things that you are currently doing to make positive change in the world, that will continue, regardless of the outcome of today’s election?
- What are positive things happening in our community or in the world in general that give you hope?
(Note that Six Rivers cannot take a stand for or against a political candidate or issue. However, we can hold this circle for people to process their feelings regarding the election. Any comments that Six Rivers staff, board or volunteers make regarding the election in this space on the 5th are their own and not an official position of Six Rivers. There may be differences of opinion in this circle about the election, and hopes for the election outcome. We request that people only speak from their own experiences.)
Tues December 3rd: Special guests Karen Kelley and Michelle Lee from the Dispute Resolution Center of Yakima and Kittitas counties will be joining us, to provide an overview of the Washington state parenting plan form. This is a required form for Washington parenting plan cases. Those who mediate family cases with Six Rivers are strongly encouraged to attend.
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”