Stephanie Turner

 Ko Tainui te waka (Tainui is my canoe) Ko Tararua te maunga (Tararua is my mountain) Ko Ngati Raukawa (Raukawa is my tribe) Ōtaki te Kainga (Ōtaki is my home)Tenei te taha o tōku matua (this is my father’s side) Tōku whaea nō Viti (my mother is from Fiji)

Stephanie Turner (Ngāti Raukawa, Tuhourangi, Ngāti Tuara, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Savusavu Fiji)

Stephanie is a highly skilled facilitator and executive who has held leadership roles within community providers, health institutions, kaupapa Māori services, and the arts.  Central to her work is embedding and enacting Te Tiriti o Waitangi and improving health systems using Indigenous knowledge, Māori worldviews and solutions. Stephanie was the inaugural Indigenous executive leader for the Health Quality and Safety Commission in Aotearoa NZ. She has a research background focused on Māori worldviews of art as therapy and is currently working towards her PhD in Indigenous Advancement.

Stephanie is committed to restorative approaches as a movement that puts relationship first, and as a means of advancing relational care. She is committed to upholding and advancing hohou te rongo (peace-making) as an Indigenous restorative approach within Aotearoa which ensures kawa and tikanga (Māori protocols and practices) are upheld in the aftermath of harm.