The Neuro-narrative Approach
Positive change requires attention to traumatic experiences and healing.
Difficult experiences, even those we are not consciously aware of, create patterns of behavior that are systemic and normalized. Most of the time, we do not notice their impact because they are so ordinary. We help clients see patterns, rewrite false stories, and change the way they engage in the world.
At Sagely, we have built a team of certified coaches, academic experts, and mental health professionals to establish our consistently trauma-informed approach to antiracism and DEIB work. This attention to larger patterns and the way individuals participate in them results in positive change. Our clients learn that their true power is in witnessing the whole and changing the way they engage and connect within a larger system.
We infuse all of our work with the knowledge that human interconnectedness is a community’s true source of strength.
Our Group Program Process
Trauma and stress can overwhelm our nervous systems and make it hard to take the most elegant and effective next step.
As participants gain awareness about their own experiences at the micro level, their capacity to influence macro anti-oppression work within their institution grows.
We seek to ground clients and organizations so that safety and calm remain central in our interactions. This opens up space for more nuanced, regulated, and reflective conversations.
We approach our work as teaching a process, rather than a list of technical DEIB solutions. This process continues to support reflection and change long after our formal work has drawn to a close.
Through small group cohorts, participants explore their responses to case studies and deepen self-awareness of personal experiences with inclusion and belonging.
Sagely's process is one of constantly bringing attention to what generates healing: relatedness, transparency, interconnectedness, hope, and belonging.
Our work is strategically designed to meet the needs of each client.
We actively engage individuals to encourage compassion, both for ourselves and for others. Communal healing, and the change that necessarily results, begins with the self. This is why our work is strategically designed to meet the needs of each client, identifying their place of power and how to make the most effective change possible.
Sagely approaches the process of truly engaging in DEIB through our methods for restoring wholeness.
Experiencing racism is traumatic. Experiencing harassment and discrimination is traumatic. It often involves the constant and stress-inducing assessment of risk. Our nervous systems remain, in some capacity, on high alert.
These experiences uniquely impact us, often remaining stuck in our bodies as behaviors, beliefs, and somatic experiences for months, years, and generations.
We seek to ground clients and organizations so that safety and calm remain central in our interactions. Then we examine what false stories exist in a culture and find ways to rewrite those stories for a more empowering and hopeful experience. The leaders and groups we work with can then, in return, engage as grounding and calming influences in the communities around them.
Our approach restores a sense of wholeness and connection, which gives us a powerful, renewed access to the beauty of our shared humanity.
