Restorative Justice

Restorative Justice - the practice of repairing and healing our connections where harm has been inflicted - informs much of how we approach the work we do here at BEHOLDEN. It informs how we relate to our other-than-human relationships as well as our inheritances from ancestors, cultures, and histories. It’s why BEHOLDEN has accountability as one of the the three pillars — accountability as responsibility + repair. While we provide training and consulting with human organizations like schools, prisons, and non-profits, we extend the ethics and practice of RJ to inter-community relationships, to lands, to ancestral dead in the land, to one’s own lineages, and to identities structured by modern systems of exploitation, division, and extraction.

Noël has been facilitating and training for 15 years. Having provided training to schools and districts throughout California - from Crescent City down to Los Angeles - and in New Mexico, Noël’s commitment is to justice as repair and accountability, relationship and understanding. Noël’s experience includes his facilitation of Victim Offender Dialogues that bring together victims of violent harm with the person/s responsible.