“The people who only value you by what you bring to the table, will leave you with the bill every time.

“Are you willing to work for what you want?”

“If you fall, dare to rise up again.”

“Self confident is best formula to success.”

Hosting: Healing design jams. We gather others for interdisciplinary digital workshops, bringing together scientists and science researchers, designers, healing practitioners (from social workers to therapists), and storytellers (from filmmakers to poets), to collectively consider evidence-based indicators for healing, share professional expertise and personal experience, and together build ideas for resources across a range of healing circumstances and audiences. These real-time events allow people to put their personal experiences of loss to “use” in service of others; and allow professional experts to use their expertise in collective, interdisciplinary, pro-social ways they may not have befor

“Fake people always seem like they’re winning because they’re always lying.”

So we’ve developed a one-year design process to open up professional expertise for more laypeople, to invite spaces to shared lived experience, and to create venues to combine these forms of knowledge into practical, evidence-based, peer-created resources for healing.

The Social Healing Project
We (Catherine Woodiwiss, Denise Dicks, Hanneke Scholten, and Isabela Granic) are designers, scientists, and researchers who are deeply interested in the question of How we heal well, together.

In combining science, design, community-building, and storytelling, we have a simple aim: We want to tell more, and better, stories about healing; we want to build practical, evidence-based, accessible resources from those stories; and we want to do this together!

Here’s what we’re doing in our

Meaning is relational, contextual, and co-constructed. We know that when a major loss occurs, one of the most challenging things to reclaim can be our sense of meaning: purpose, agency, and coherency, or making sense of what’s happened/who we are, and what’s available to us now. We know that together, we hold far more wisdom and knowledge about healing than we, as individuals, usually experience in our atomized modern life.