Healing-Centred Design is a transformation framework, rooted in trauma informed practice. 

It blends systemic, creative and reflective approaches, helping leaders and future-makers to design lasting change to,

  • Evolve from difficult life experiences into powerful leadership qualities

  • Create replenishing work and nurturing organisations 

  • Develop purposeful teams and communities that make brilliant things happen

Our Healing-Centred Design Principles

These principles offer shape to our work and are used a guiding set of practices and processes.

  1. Rhythm and Ritual - practices that create patterns and certainty

  2. Filter - processes to help sort, prioritise and make choices

  3. Collide and align- blending ideas from different sources to create something new

  4. Transition - creating spaces in between, pauses for processing and reflection

  5. Contribute and benefit - balancing giving and receiving for equity and sustainability

You can read the origin story of Healing Centred Design here

Sharing Healing-Centred Design

‘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.

We have a range of products and services to support you to learn and apply Healing Centred Design

  • Healing Centred Transformation Podcast - listen here

  • The Brilliant Box - get tools and resources here

  • The Brilliant Club - explore the learning programme here

  • Facilitators Course - 2 day experiencial training course for leaders, coaches and facilitators to learn how to use Healing Centred Design to facilitate powerful groupwork - email hello@brilliantthing.co.uk for more information.

  • Projects and Collaborations - All our projects and collaborations draw on Healing Centred Design principles, practices and processes. - email hello@brilliantthing.co.uk for more information.