Work with us

Human Skills at Work sessions are short, online Action-Learning sessions for staff teams focused on developing and embedding Human Skills into everyday work. Sessions develop,

🟠Compassion: understanding, empathy and support

🟠Trust: listening skills, collaboration, inclusion

🟠Conflict navigation: respect, challenge and resolution

🟠Adaptability: innovation, flexibility, creativity

🟠Critical thinking: decision making, problem solving

Facilitation School is an experiential learning opportunity for leaders, coaches + educators.

Learn how to use Healing-Centred Design® blending trauma-informed practice, creative coaching and systems thinking, to facilitate and lead memorable, impactful work.

Trauma-Informed Practice workshops raise awareness of the impact of trauma, explore our Healing-Centred Design framework, and support teams to work in safe, inclusive and supportive ways.

Workshops are tailored to your teams needs and recent workshops have been delivered to

🟠Front-line leisure and cultural organisation staff

🟠Health and community staff teams

If you are interested in finding out more, please email faye@brilliantthing.co.uk

Healing-Centred Placemaking is our work to create and embed positive, lasting change. We work with councils, NHS teams, local infrastructure organisations and in neighbourhoods to facilitate,

🟠Community Development

🟠Infrastructure + partnership development

🟠Codesign and coproduction

🟠Community Research

🟠Stakeholder, Impact and Value Mapping.

We hold 2 annual, codesigned events, the Mend + Tend conference and the Rebalance Summit, both focused on the moving from pain to power. Our Event highlights! 2026 Event | 2025 Event

We hold monthly wellbeing socials and retreats for deep work. Retreats + Gatherings

Interested? Email us at faye@brilliantthing.co.uk

Work is changing and human skills help us adapt. The Human Skills Network is a supportive professional community where you can reflect, connect and grow alongside others navigating change.

Through learning circles, events and practical tools, you’ll strengthen the human skills needed to create change, influence decisions, expand your thinking to shape the future.

We offer 2 Healing-Centred Design® Programmes to support health, education and community organisations design work for real life. The programmes work together to support people, rebalance pressure and strengthen performance.

🟠The Brilliant Workplace strengthens your leadership strategy + culture.

🟠The Brilliant Club supports your team’s wellbeing + performance.

Bespoke workshops and awaydays support teams to step out of the urgency of day-to-day operations and focus on the bigger picture. Our workshops use creative, coaching based activities and support strategy, planning and team development.

Recent workshops include:

🟠Insight and Planning sessions the Greater Manchester WorkWell programme team.

🟠Codesign Sprint with 30+ Youth focused organisations.

🟠Development support sessions for The National Lottery Heritage Fund Executive Team and Business Innovation team.

Interested? Email us at faye@brilliantthing.co.uk

We have developed tools and resources to support the delivery of our work and to support leaders teams and practitioners to bring creative, systems thinking and trauma-informed practice into their work.

Find out more about,

🟠Book: Healing-Centred Transformation: Mend, Tend and Change the Future (Paperback) by Kerry Tottingham

🟠Coaching Cards: The Brilliant Box. A multipurpose development deck of cards, to create energy, inspiration, connection and possibility. Brilliant for people, groups, organisations and communities working to create change.

🟠Trauma Informed Communities: A free toolkit of codesigned practices and processes, to support trauma informed practice, when working in and with communities.