TTP Global was created with a global vision. This fall, that vision begins taking on a new dimension as Founder Dr. Sherry Congrave Wilson establishes a base in Southeast Asia while TTP Global continues growing its work in the United States.
California will remain an important home for TTP Global and the relationships we have built here. Our growing practitioner team will continue providing restorative training, leadership development, mediation, coaching, and other services throughout the state.
But our vision has never stopped at California.
As TTP Global enters its next stage of development, we are intentionally exploring opportunities to bring our work to new communities and organizations across the United States, while beginning to build relationships and learn from communities beyond the U.S. as well. The goal is not simply to work in more places. It is to build an organization capable of learning across places.
The Restorative Ecological Model™ (REM) is grounded in the understanding that people and communities cannot be separated from culture, history, place, relationships, power, and the larger ecosystems in which they live. Working between the United States and Southeast Asia creates new opportunities to listen, observe, build relationships, and continue asking how restorative ideas are understood and practiced across different cultural contexts.
The intention is not to take an American model somewhere else and assume it belongs. It is to remain curious about what changes when we encounter different ways of understanding community, relationship, conflict, healing, leadership, and collective responsibility—and to allow those encounters to challenge, strengthen, and deepen our own work.
Making Room to Go Deeper
This next chapter is also creating space for something TTP Global has been imagining for some time: restorative retreats.
TTP Global plans to begin developing restorative retreats in the United States, with the possibility of future retreats in Southeast Asia. These experiences will create opportunities to step outside the pace and pressures of everyday organizational life and engage restorative work differently—with more time for reflection, relationship, regulation, place, learning, and connection.
What happens when restorative work is given more than a few hours in a training room?
What becomes possible when people have time to slow down, reflect deeply, learn together, and consider not only what they do, but how they want to be in relationship with themselves, one another, and the communities and systems they serve?
We intend to find out.
Growing Without Losing the Center
Geographic expansion also raises an important question for us: How do we grow without losing what makes the work restorative in the first place?
For TTP Global, growth cannot simply mean delivering the same program in more locations. It means cultivating practitioners who can carry the work, developing relationships with communities rather than simply entering them, remaining responsive to local context, and continuing to learn as the organization grows.
That means strengthening our practitioner community in California while creating pathways for TTP Global to work in other parts of the country. It means exploring what an international presence might eventually become without deciding in advance what it must look like. And it means allowing what we learn in one place to inform—but never automatically define—what we do somewhere else.
The word Global has always represented an aspiration larger than geography. It reflects a belief that restorative work becomes richer when we learn across cultures, knowledge systems, communities, disciplines, and ways of seeing the world.
TTP Global is still early in this journey.
Now, we get to begin living into the name.