The Mental Health Safe Project’s Trauma-Informed Response Initiative (TRI – pronounced “try”) began developing Reputation Repair Lab resources in 2025. The name came from John Lande’s AI RPS Coach and the project was formally announced on May 5, 2025 on the University of Missouri Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution’s DRLE Dispute Resolution Listserv.
“Reputation Repair Lab is being designed as a type of dispute resolution process centered on addressing all parties’ concerns about their reputations being impacted by one another. It is currently conceived as entailing four steps – an intake where the parties self-assess their reputations, an individual pre-session where each party shares their concerns about their reputations being impacted by one another, a restorative process where all parties discuss how their reputations matter to them and how they’ve been affected and ways to move forward, and potentially an agreement at the end for them to move forward in ways that support everyone’s reputations.”
In addition to the development of that process, we have also put together a set of RRL resources. They can be downloaded by clicking here.