Healing Centered Practice

3-Day in-person training for professionals in care-oriented fields

Prevent Burnout & Staff Turnover

When staff are constantly giving without replenishing, burnout becomes inevitable—leading to higher absenteeism, lower job satisfaction, and costly turnover. Investing in HCP training now can prevent long-term exhaustion and help staff stay engaged and resilient in their work.

Increase Efficiency & Effectiveness

When staff learn healing-centered tools, they can engage with clients more effectively, reduce reactive responses, and build trust faster. The time spent in training can save time down the road by improving staff’s ability to navigate challenges with clarity and regulation rather than exhaustion and frustration.

Immediate, Practical Tools for the Workplace

This isn’t just a theoretical training—it’s designed to directly enhance daily work. Participants leave with real, applicable skills that help them manage stress, respond to clients in more effective ways, and cultivate a healthier work environment.

Long-Term Organizational Impact

A healing-centered workforce creates a ripple effect: staff are more regulated, resilient, and engaged, which improves client interactions, team culture, and overall workplace morale. These shifts lead to better outcomes for both staff and the communities they serve.

LEARN.

Healing Centered Practice (HCP) foundational theory is grounded in the science of human development, emphasizing resilience rather than pathology, and compassion rather than judgment. The approach involves studying and learning from leading experts in the field, translating evidence and research into practical, deep understanding about trauma and healing. This foundation ensures that human services work is rooted in a solid evidence-based theory of change.

The foundational training in HCP is designed to make critical insights from trauma science accessible and meaningful for everyday interactions, ongoing relationships, and program development. It explores trauma from a contemporary human development perspective — emphasizing resilience rather than pathology and compassion rather than judgment — and defining trauma not merely by external events but by their internal impact on individuals.

HCP introduces a conscious, purposeful, compassionate, and dignity-centered practice of trauma awareness and wellness, aiming to create a framework for effective and empathetic engagement in the field. This foundation ensures that human services work is rooted in a solid evidence-based theory of change, and that professionals can communicate through shared language and understanding.

HEAL.

To envision and create opportunities for transformational healing in others, it is essential that we first engage in our own healing. Healing begins within; if neglected, we risk projecting the impacts of our unresolved trauma—such as feelings of shame, unworthiness, and self-doubt—onto others. This can manifest as a harsh worldview, judgment, dehumanization, dysregulated emotions, and unhealthy coping mechanisms like workaholism or perfectionism. Moreover, unaddressed trauma can lead to burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma, as we struggle to offer ourselves the compassion and care we extend to others.

Trauma and adversity are not solely the experiences of those we serve but are also part of our own lives. Resolving personal trauma is a critical and essential component of our work, as it is impossible to be fully present with others through a process we have been unwilling or unable to undertake ourselves.

By engaging in experiential immersion, we have the opportunity to connect the understanding of trauma with personal healing work. Through stories, breakout sessions, and experiential learning, participants are guided to safely explore their own trauma histories and identify areas of unresolved pain that may hinder their ability to be fully present for others. This process is a journey, not a destination, and the experiential immersion is designed to deepen participants' understanding of the importance of doing their own work, inviting them to dive deeper into their personal healing and fostering a commitment to ongoing practice.

TRANSFORM.

The movement toward Trauma-Informed Care has transformed human services from focusing on what is wrong with a person to understanding what has happened to them.

Healing Centered Practice (HCP) goes further by emphasizing what is right about a person.

HCP is a conscious, compassionate, respectful, and purposeful approach that fosters reconnection to essential wholeness. It harnesses the healing potential of supportive, authentic, and trusting relationships to bring out the inherent resilience and wisdom of people who have experienced trauma. HCP creates an environment where individuals can embark on their own healing journey.

HCP integrates personal growth and wellness with new insights and ways of working.

Through storytelling and experiential learning, participants receive supportive coaching to celebrate their progress and identify ongoing opportunities for growth in their HCP journey. This component is not about performance or doing things "right," but about supporting the courage it takes to be vulnerable, authentic, and committed to continuous growth. It also aims to foster a collective, purposeful culture that invites, encourages, and celebrates these values.

EVOLVE.

HCP is not prescriptive, but rather provides theoretical grounding to shift, re-imagine and envision new approaches for doing the work. HCP is not a how-to manual for evolution, rather it offers stepping stones to creating individual, programmatic, organizational and system evolution. The specific contours of this evolution will be based upon the realities of your own program, organization or community.

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