You can do brilliant things.
We are Social Change Designers. We design innovative ways to dismantle inequality and channel positive, collective power in workplaces and communities.
⚡We use Healing Centred Design™, an approach that combines wellbeing practices, with strategic and systemic design to create solutions that have brilliant impact AND support the humans behind the work.
⚡We offer coaching, team development, retreats and facilitation, supporting organisations to embody the change they want to create in the world and create high quality teams that people love being part of.
⚡We believe that with guidance, support and inspiration everyone can do brilliant things
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What is social change?
Social change means dismantling the pain we see in ourselves, and in society, and creating new equitable experiences that support people, build communities and create equitable power.
Through strategies (direction, systems, impact) and culture (people, place, patterns) we inspire and enable change.
What is healing-centred design?
Healing-centred design is a creative process that combines design and wellbeing practices, to create supportive solutions that dismantle equality and nurture healing.
We use design thinking, along with systemic approaches, coproduction, creative facilitation and coaching to help people and organisations design the future we all need.
Clients and Collaborators
Our philosophy: TLC
Trust - we build trust through words and actions
Listen - we listen deeply to people closest to inequality to learn what works
Change - we design and develop creative ways to solve problems and enable change
Our Healing-Centred Design Principles
Rhythm and Ritual - practices that create patterns and certainty
Filter - processes to help sort, prioritise and make choices
Collide and align- blending ideas from different sources to create something new
Transition - creating spaces in between, pauses for processing and reflection
Contribute and benefit - balancing giving and receiving for equity and sustainability
“Your genuine warmth and interest in us all was wonderful, I enjoyed the creative process of mapping and linking our influences. We were there as a group but each working on our own journey”
New Pioneers ‘Resolve’ Retreat
It enabled us to recognise complexity and choreograph processes to change things
Development day with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Leadership team
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
I’m a design-thinker, mother and maker - and Strategic Lead for A Brilliant Thing CIC. But I’m not alone! Our 4 co-directors, are my mum, Lynn, sisters Faye and Tess and myself. Tess works in the company with me, as Development Lead along with our lovely freelance collaborators.
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.
We care deeply about creating work that inspires positive social change, and nourishes the person behind that work. We value equality, integrity and kindness and these qualities guide our contribution to society.
Our favourite phrase is said with a twinkle of the eyes, 'I have an idea...'
Hi I’m Kerry!
Journal - Storytelling, creative thinking and reflections
