We do Healing-Centred Design work

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The Book

A podcast about our Healing-Centred approach and how we use it to support for social justice and make brilliant things happen. The book will be published in June 25 too!

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The Projects

We work with purpose-led people to support them to create change.


Our support comes in the form of both one-off workshops or long term, multi-organisation projects in a range of sectors.

Here are a selection of our projects.

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The Club

Nourish and elevate your work and yourself with The Brilliant Club, our learning programme for purpose led people.

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Kerry Tottingham Kerry Tottingham

The Podcast

A podcast about our Healing-Centred approach and how we use it to support for social justice and make brilliant things happen. The book will be published in June 25 too!

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Kerry Tottingham Kerry Tottingham

Blog: Compassion in Communities

Explore the power of compassion with Kerry, co-director of A Brilliant Thing CIC, and The Brilliant Club members, Tik who runs Happy Me Community and Pili, inclusion project manager at Dorset Music Service.

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Guest Blog: Somatics and Expressive Art

Creative Health Consultant, Coach and The Brilliant Club member Lory Povah, reflects on her experience of participating in a Somatics and Expressive Art Intensive and finding wisdom in her body.

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Blog: Meeting experiment

Imagine opening your diary and seeing spacious time, portions helpfully allocated to connecting, doing and reflecting? We think we might have cracked it?!

What if your time was punctuated by thinking space, rather than endless meetings slotted in in gaps?

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Blog: Top coaching themes in 2023

Ever wondered what people talk about in coaching sessions?

In 2023, we delivered 47 individual coaching sessions, 52 group coaching sessions, and 13 Reflective Practice sessions, gaining rich insights about what the VCSE sector needs now and helping us design strategies that work! Here we share the top 5 themes that have emerged this year.

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