Healing-Centred Design

Let’s make work feel brilliant!

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Tools + Resources

We provide a range of accessible tools and resources to support purpose-led work. Including,

Healing-Centred Transformation: Mend, Tend and Change the Future, a book by our founder Kerry Tottingham

The Brilliant Box a coaching card deck for team and personal development.

Trauma-Informed Communities, a free guide to shaping supportive and impactful community projects..

Healing-Centred design®

We help people, organisations and partnerships create healthy work cultures using Healing-Centred Design.

‘Healing’ means mending the things that are not working, and tending to the things that are.

‘Centred’ means orientating away from pain (harm, being ‘done to’) and gathering personal and collective power (purpose, choice, ‘doing with’)

‘Design’ means developing practices and processes that support healing rather than harm, to change you own, and others, lives and futures.

Learning Programme

We facilitate The Brilliant Club, welcoming in purpose-led freelancers, founders and facilitators to learn and apply Healing-Centred Design to their work..

The Club nurtures and elevates members work and wellbeing and 2 ticket types are offered, Together and Solo.

Together is a 6 month group programme, with start dates in April and October, you can join the waitlist anytime. Solo is a self-paced digital course available year-round.

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Facilitation School

An experiential 3-day learning space for leaders, coaches + educators.

Applications Open:

Summer School: Fridays 11th, 18th and 25th July 2025, 10-3pm

Waitlist Open:

Autumn School: Fridays 12th, 19th, 26th September 2025, 10-3pm

Winter School: Fridays 9th, 16th, 23rd January 2026

We Work Out Loud!

Creating together with others is in our nature. In June 2025, Kerry, Co-director of A Brilliant Thing CIC’s book was released. Healing Centred Transformation weaves together story, action and inspiration for change, personal, societal and collective.

The launch event, Mend, Tend + Change the Future brought together 80 changemakers, creating positive social change in communities across the UK.

Kerry writes and speaks on a range of platforms, gathering and encouraging people to create change around the things that matter to them.

If you would like Kerry to speak at your event-email us! hello@brilliantthing.co.uk

MORE! Events
MORE! Writing + Speaking
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Healing-Centred Transformation. A podcast reflecting on wellbeing, social justice work + healing-centred design. Listen here (spotify)

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It enabled us to recognise complexity and choreograph processes to change things

Development day with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Leadership team

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Our founder had joked about "another planning day surrounded by post-it notes".. but it was so far from this, with so much creativity and even a bit of storytelling, we now have our plan for the next 3 years.

Thank you so much Kerry.

Breathworks -international mindfulness charity

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Hi We are Kerry, Faye and Tess!

We are sisters and we created A Brilliant Thing CIC because we know that supportive, creative work can be a powerful way to change the world. Our joint focus on purpose-led work and wellbeing means working, learning and coaching with us creates lasting impact and feels brilliant!

Together we bring a depth of skills in therapeutic counselling, coaching, organisational and community development, people management, design-thinking and experience across charity, NHS, public and private sectors.

Our favourite phrase is said with a twinkle of the eyes, 'I have an idea...'

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