About Aspen Restorative Consulting
We focus on all aspects of your community to support you as you build a new, restorative culture.
We provide organisational restorative responses (including employee resolution services) to a range of public and private organisations.
We love to teach, coach, support, and empower through hands-on, practical training. Our leadership development workshops blend reputable research with innovative new ideas to help schools, universities, and workplaces experience deeper empathy and find greater connection in their daily lives.
We also provide consultation and advice to restorative justice organisations around the world.
Aspen Restorative Consulting was founded in 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand by Haley Farrar and Lindsey Pointer.
Our Mission is to help build healthy communities rooted in open communication and the experience of belonging through the implementation of restorative practices.
Throughout our work and relationships with our clients and each other, we are committed to upholding the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We are guided by the restorative values - relationship, responsibility, respect, and repair - that shape our kaupapa. As an organisation we acknowledge the ongoing journey necessary to deepen our knowledge and response to the history, impacts, and importance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We commit to doing what’s required to better understand and respond to the historical and current racism and colonisation in Aotearoa. This includes naming and addressing our own biases and privilege through critical reflection, understanding our own whakapapa as well as our ongoing learning of Te Tiriti, te reo Māori and tikanga Māori.
Our materials, curriculum, and processes have been developed in partnership with…
Restorative Practices are founded on the values of Relationship, Respect and Responsibility.
These values drive everything we do, and define how we hold ourselves accountable to each other and to you.
We believe that every individual is the expert of their own life. It follows that each community knows itself better than we could ever hope to. We ask that you take your restorative learnings and apply them in ways that best suit you. As our client, you are an active participant in the design of the process or training you need and the support you require. You tell us what you need - we've got your back.
But why ‘aspen?’
In addition to being a beautiful image of the co-founders’ home state of Colorado, aspens hold a special meaning.
Though seeming to stand alone, at times appearing impossibly slender in the harsh conditions of the high desert, aspens are remarkably strong. Their unique root systems connect thousands of trees together underground.
This connection through the root system means that aspen groves are the largest organism in the world.
We believe humanity is just the same.
We are all deeply connected, just under the surface. Our community is where we find support to grow and thrive - if only we tap into our connected roots.
In the Press…
Living Restoratively - “Two Victoria University researchers are using their unique skill sets to support the restorative justice efforts at the University.”