Work designed for real life.
We use Healing-Centred Design® to develop safe, supportive, sustainable workplaces + communities.
Inspiration Season is a campaign to transform working practices across health, education and community sectors.
Mend + Tend is an inspiration and wellbeing event to help leaders and teams step out of constant urgency and leave with practical ways to design secure, sustainable ways of working that actually fit real life.
Join 25+ contributors in a collective pause to replenish, reflect and be inspired.
Tools + Resources
We resource powerful work at Facilitation School for educators and practitioners.
You can ‘Design your Own’ transformation tools and resources at our network and event workshops.
Explore The Brilliant Box coaching cards, our book and range of free digital toolkits.
Healing-Centred Design®
Our evidence-based method creates the conditions for healthy ways of working, creating both wellbeing and transformative results.
‘Healing-Centred’ guides safe, supported development, that builds motivation and capacity.
‘Design’ creates sustainable solutions, instead of defaulting to urgency.
Programmes + Projects
We support leadership and delivery teams with our change programmes, The Brilliant Workplace, organisation and leadership development and The Brilliant Club, offering team and wellbeing support.
Healing-Centred Placemaking
Is where we design healthy systems, partnerships and communities, with cross-sector partners.
Book!
Healing-Centred Transformation: Mend, Tend and Change the Future by Kerry Tottingham
Nominated for the Peoples Book Prize
Shout-Out!
Join our LinkedIn Networking group, celebrating people doing powerful, healthy work in health, education and community sectors.
Events Workshops + Talks
Kerry our co-director writes and speaks about wellbeing, social change and how chronic health experiences empowered her to change how we work. We are particularly interested in contributing to events about workplace wellbeing, HR and systems change and also hold our own events.
Last event: Mend, Tend and Change the Future
Next Event: March 2026 wellbeing and inspiration day for people and organisations delivering education, health, wellbeing and community services. We will celebrate International Women’s Day, offer free wellbeing support and hear from inspiring speakers to leave you feeling brilliant!
Interested? Email us at hello@brilliantthing.co.uk
Healing-Centred Transformation: A podcast about healthy work and transformative results using Healing-Centred Design® Listen here on Spotify.
"It enabled us to recognise the complexity in teams and programmes, and choreograph processes and ways of working to change things"
Development day with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Leadership team
Hi We are Kerry, Faye and Tess!
We are sisters and we created A Brilliant Thing CIC because we know that working in healthy ways is the most powerful way to change how we live and work. We care about the people delivering services, and our joint focus on wellbeing and results means 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...'
