…The Restorative Process that ensued altered the course of Ben’s life. He enrolled in facilitator training and went on to facilitate Restorative Justice cases for the same judge who had presided over his own case.
In 2009 the US State Department selected Ben as “one of America’s 24 emerging young peacemakers” sent to Northern Ireland to monitor the region’s fledgling peace process, ten years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
He has practiced victim-led justice in the favela’s of Brazil and the cities of New Zealand.
Ben has facilitated hundreds of restorative circles in American schools and served as special project manager to the Colorado State Council on Restorative Justice.
He holds a Master’s in Restorative Practices in Youth Counseling from the International Institute for Restorative Practices in Pennsylvania.
In 2013 Ben moved to Germany where he spent the next seven years coordinating crisis interventions for immigrant families flagged by the German Child Protection System. As an immigrant himself, navigating acute child endangerment cases in a foreign language, Ben grew increasingly troubled by the cultural blind spots in state-client relations; ultimately inspiring his “System Blindness” approach to organizational change efforts.
In 2020, Ben returned to the United States to found Frame Changers. When he is not working with businesses and schools, Ben runs workshops in Family Systems Constellations. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, two children and their bunnies.