"We prepare students to engage in the world that is and to help bring about a world that ought to be."
Katherine "KK" Peabody
Parent
Katherine “KK” Peabody is a Certified Conflict Mediator and Restorative Circle-Keeper who works with families, school communities and workplace teams to build meaningful connections and resolve conflicts compassionately. She implements restorative practices such as conflict coaching, mediation, conflict transformation training and Restorative Circles.
Conflict is never just about the concrete issues we see. Restorative practices help uncover the relational, emotional and energetic elements which exist within a conflict. KK has designed and presented in-school programs for team building, conflict resolution, dignity fluency, as well as Restorative Circle training for faculty and students within independent schools. She led Conflict Resolution training for organizations including CSEE www.csee.org. KK founded Boys Adventure Circles in 2018 www.boysadventurecircle.com, a program combining movement
exercises with restorative circle discussions to cultivate emotional fluency, empathy and compassion practices for boys.
KK received her BS in Anthropology from Santa Clara University. She believes in the transformative power of storytelling and was a Trustee for the Williamstown Theater Festival www.wtfestival.org from 2007-2024. There she co-chaired the Cultural Transformation Committee, led Conflict Resolution Processes for the staff and Board, and worked closely with consultants from artEquity www.artequity.org.
KK and her husband, Bo, have three sons who attend Friends Seminary. They live in Tribeca and on their farm in Williamstown, MA.
Friends Seminary actively promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in all its programs and operations, including admissions, financial aid, hiring, and all facets of the educational experience. To form a community which strives to reflect the world’s diversity, we do not discriminate on the basis of race or color, religion, nationality, ethnicity, economic background, physical ability, sex, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation. Friends Seminary is an equal opportunity employer.
Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
