Our 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 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. We seek to ground clients and organizations so that safety and calm return to us in our interactions with the world around us.
Some experiences uniquely impact us, often remaining stuck in our bodies as behaviors, beliefs, and somatic experiences for months, years, and generations.
Healing begins by acknowledging pain, rewriting false stories, and disrupting divisive patterns. Restoring wholeness gives us a more powerful, renewed access to the beauty of our shared humanity.
White Allies
Racism exists on systemic and embodied levels that often remain unseen to those who do not experience it—and to those who were never taught to see it or asked to ignore its presence. We understand how this impacts white individuals in particular, who often find themselves shocked, angry, confused, surprised, embarrassed, or too afraid to act. We also understand that our individual experiences of bias, including sexism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination, uniquely impact our ability to engage as allies. We work with individuals to find their most powerful space of engagement.
At Sagely, we have consultants who specialize in helping white community members sort through the complicated dynamics of becoming better allies.
We help clients build awareness so that they feel confident engaging in a productive way that recognizes the unique worth of each individual. Every single individual benefits from a more equitable workplace culture. We help allies write themselves into the story of change.