Unearth WE: For Professionals
Healing Centered Practice
Healing Centered Practice (HCP) is an evidence-informed paradigm for transformational work in care-oriented fields that is solidly grounded in the contemporary understanding of trauma and healing and is rooted in compassion for both the people receiving services and those providing the services.
“Even when I’m at home, my mind is still at work. I feel like I can never truly shut it off.”
Prevent Burnout & Compassion Fatigue
HCP training helps staff recognize and regulate their own stress responses, preventing emotional depletion and restoring a sense of purpose, resilience, and connection to their work. By addressing secondary trauma and emotional exhaustion, staff can sustain long-term engagement without feeling drained or ineffective.
Reduce Workplace Conflict & Strengthens Team Morale
Understanding nervous system states, trauma responses, and adaptive behaviors helps staff navigate interpersonal tensions with greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence. This training equips teams with tools to communicate effectively, repair misunderstandings, and foster a culture of psychological safety, allowing people to work together instead of against each other.
"I came into this field because I wanted to help people, but half my energy goes into dealing with drama and tension with my coworkers.
It’s exhausting, and it makes it hard to focus on the work that actually matters."
"It feels like I’m just running from one fire to the next. I don’t have time to actually solve the deeper issues because I’m too busy putting out whatever crisis is right in front of me."
Enhance Efficiency & Effectiveness in High-Stress Work Environments
By training staff how to identify what triggers them, they can stay regulated, respond intentionally, and avoid reactionary decision-making. HCP trains your staff to release the (often) self-imposed burdens so that they can work from their most capable, curious, compassionate, and confident self.
Gain Practical Skills to Stay Emotionally Centered
Learn how to support individuals in crisis without internalizing their distress while also remaining present and compassionate, ultimately leading to stronger client relationships, increased trust, and better long-term outcomes.
"I don’t want to sound jaded, but after a while, you start to see that no matter how much effort you put in, people will still expect more and appreciate less."
When helpers are able to be in their humanity, they are more able to be with others in their humanity when they need it most.
Testimonials
"Unlike any other professional training I have attended in my career. Facilitators will gently but effectively guide you to learn profound aspects of why you are the way you are and how life experiences impact personal, client, and colleague relationships in profound ways. Participants will recharge, regenerate, and reconnect on both the physical and emotional levels during their experience. I could not recommend this meaningful, interesting, and impactful training opportunity more highly." - HCP training attendee
"I received so much more out of this training than I anticipated. If you want to be a better version of yourself, this training is a great place to start!" -HCP training attendee
"In all the years I have been working in this field--I have never been given such a beautiful and helpful gift such as this training. As hard as the inner work can be (and is), these genius level teachers were able to allow us to face ourselves with new perspectives. This training posed helpful and intentional challenges that I never knew were even possible. I will forever be grateful for the opportunity and can only hope to be brought back at some point in my future to be part of the unique work they are creating. 10/10 highly recommended." -HCP training attendee
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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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Milwaukee, WI 53202-4909
United States
