How We Partner for Change
Join us in bringing healing into the heart of systems change
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Healing systems is no longer an idea on the margins. It is becoming a living field of practice with real reach, institutional uptake, and cross-sector credibility.
How We Work
Establishing the Field
What does it take for healing-centered practice to become a recognized discipline within systems change, not a fringe area, but a foundation?
We generate the research, frameworks, and shared language the field needs to develop its own identity and coherence. Our article on healing trauma in systems became the most-read piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2024. We've shared our frameworks at the Skoll World Forum, Inner Development Goals Summit, and Aspen Institute — reaching 1000’s of practitioners, funders, and system leaders across regions.
Partnering With Practitioners & Collectives
What becomes possible when the people doing systems change work are also supported in their own healing and growth?
We work directly with leaders, organizations, and networks, bridging healing-centered practice and systems change theory in the spaces where transformation is actually happening.
Cultivating Philanthropic Will and Investment
What would it take for funders to invest in healing — not as a program, but as a structural orientation to all their work?
We help philanthropic leaders see how healing starts within and understand why healing-centered approaches work. We then work together to build the relationships and evidence that move resources into this field.
WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE
IN PRACTICE
When People's Self-Help Housing (California-based Non-Profit) invited us in to work with their 85+ staff, we didn't arrive with a preset curriculum. We spent time learning about the organization’s culture, history, and the pressures its people were carrying. What followed was a series of trauma-informed systems leadership workshops, customized to their context, that opened new language and new possibilities.
Working with them ‘CCL’ has not only provided new knowledge and skills but also instilled hope for a future we can all envision for our organization."
- Yanitsa Buendía de Llaca, PhD, DEI Advisor, People's Self-Help Housing
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