Healing-Centred Design® is a evidence-based, transformation framework
The framework supports people and organisations experiencing change, to feel valued and motivated.
Staff and volunteer teams who deliver support and services can use the framework to support wellbeing and energy.
Organisations who deliver health, wellbeing, education or community services can use the framework to improve their resilience and culture.
Changemakers can use the framework in thier coaching, facilitation and leadership work to create memorable lasting impact
Healing-Centred Design® blends systemic, creative and reflective approaches, following a 4-step process which can be adapted to your needs.
- Pain to Power: Connecting to your experiences, needs and strengths.
- Mend and Tend: Identifying what can be repaired and what can be nurtured to support you.
- Principles in Practice: Developing ways of working that support wellbeing, purpose and action.
- Toolkit: Creating an actionable plan and toolkit of resources to support through current and future change.
For people
When work is focused on delivering help and support to others, feeling drained and pressured can feel inevitable. When things change, at work or in your personal life, the pressure can ramp up. Extra support can help people feel motivated and valued again.
Our founder Kerry wrote a book (nominated for The Peoples Book Award) about her experience and how working in the community sector, and living with chronic pain inspired her to lead a change towards healthier safer and more supported work.
Organisations can support their staff and volunteer teams, by becoming members of The Brilliant Club, which nurtures staff wellbeing, offers reflective coaching support and helps people build skills and support needed to feel keep making a difference through their work.
For Organisations
When you are navigating change, a restructure, a change in leadership, moving towards beginnings or endings, it can be hard to sustain purpose and progress. The best way to bring people along with you and get everyone pulling in the same direction, is through reflecting on what’s happened and codesigning the future together.
Our programme for organisations The Brilliant Workplace powers change in healthy ways.
For change-makers
Coaches, educators, facilitators and leaders can learn about Healing-Centred Design and apply the framework to thier work, using our range of Resources or by attending Facilitation School.
These experiencial options support personal and professional development.
For Place-making
We work on coproduction projects with councils, NHS, local infrastructure, and community organisations, designing healthy systems, partnerships and communities.
‘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.
More Healing-Centred Design®
Group Shout-Out! A LinkedIn networking group celebrating people doing powerful, healthy work.
Podcast Healing-Centred Transformation:A podcast about healthy work and transformative results using Healing-Centred Design® Listen here on Spotify.
Book Healing-Centred Transformation: Mend, Tend and change the Future, by Kerry Tottingham (nominated for The Peoples Book Prize) read here
Healing-Centred Design principles shape our work
Rhythm + Ritual – practices that create patterns and certainty
Filter – processes to help sort, prioritise and make choices
Collide + Align– blending ideas from different sources to create something new
Transition – creating spaces in between, pauses for processing and reflection
Contribute + Benefit – balancing giving and receiving for equity and sustainability
We have gathered evidence of need, evidence and support for Healing-Centred Design and evidence and support for the outcomes of The Brilliant Club, along with wider reading and our core assumptions here.
You can read the origin story of Healing Centred Design here
