Trauma disrupts our fundamental needs for safety, agency, dignity, and belonging. This post introduces the Integrative Trauma and Healing Framework and offers practical ways to support healing across individual, collective, and systemic levels.

A primer on our foundational offering: Belonging-Based Facilitation. If you’re curious about what it is, where it comes from and how it differs from other typical modes of facilitation, read on.

A friend recently asked how I prepare for facilitation or healing work that is likely to be especially taxing, I responded that I prepare by being: grounded, bounded, clear and tuned.

That is not Teddy dodging questions. It is him presenting to a group of BASW students at the University of Washington, sharing foundational frameworks for understanding structural oppression. Teddy often asks folks to watch this before working together so time can be spent exploring how oppression is showing up, not debating whether it exists.