Why ForGiving forRestoring Canada?
Who We Are
ForGiving ForRestoring Canada (FFC) is a Canadian not-for-profit organization dedicated to cultivating dignity, care, and peace through pedagogies and practices of forgiveness and restoration.
We work with community organizations, educators, practitioners, and leaders who want practical ways to respond to harm, conflict, and division.
Our Why
Harm—whether personal, structural, or collective—leaves wounds.
When those wounds go unaddressed, they shape our health, relationships, and communities.
We believe forgiveness and restoration offer non-violent, empowering responses to harm—responses that do not erase justice, dignity, or responsibility.
Our People.
Our facilitators are experienced practitioners in mediation, education, community work, and peacebuilding, with decades of combined experience.
They guide this work with humility, care, and professional integrity.
We work in English, French and Spanish, connecting Canada to a global network of forgiveness educators.
Lorna Lemay
CEO & Board Director Facilitator
Leonel Narváez
Board Director
Founder & President - Colombia
Dave Zackrias
Board Director
Development
Jo-Ann Toulouse
Board Director - Facilitator
Bentley Miascum
Facilitator
Manon Richmond
Facilitator
Nicole Charron
Facilitator
Henri Tremblay
Facilitator
Carole Soucis
Facilitator
Howard Martin
Facilitator
Jacqueline Lamarre
Facilitator
Lynn Burge
Board Director - Facilitator
Daniel Markus
Board Director - International
Facilitator
Our Network
We are the official Canadian country node of the Fundación para la Reconciliación (Colombia), part of an international network teaching the pedagogy of forgiveness and restoration in over 23 countries.
Our Approach
-
experiential and dialogical
-
grounded in research and lived experience
-
respectful of cultural, spiritual, and personal differences
-
paced—never forced
We collaborate with a worldwide network of educators, facilitators, and peacebuilders who share the conviction that forgiveness is learnable and teachable.
