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Preventing Trauma | Building Communities
At The Elephant and Willow Project...
At The Elephant and Willow Project...
We believe true healing begins before crisis—yet prevention is often missing. The Elephant & Willow Project helps organizations, leadership teams, and school systems build cultures of mental and relational wellbeing where communities can thrive.
Affordability should never preclude healing. Too often, the individuals and families who need mental-health education the most are the ones who can’t access it. We’re committed to changing that by making evidence-based, prevention-first education accessible to all.
The Problem
Prevention is Missing
The Problem
Prevention is Missing
Most organizations try to manage crisis after it happens. This means the damage is already done.
In schools, this looks like teacher burnout, escalating student behaviors, and widespread disengagement
In organizations, it looks like high turnover, lack of engagement, and toxic cultures.
Without prevention-first strategies, leaders remain trapped in a costly cycle of reaction, unintentionally modeling a reactive environment - vs building proactive, trauma-free environments where people can thrive.
That's our wheelhouse!
Our Solution
Prevention-First Approach
Our Solution
Prevention-First Approach
At The Elephant & Willow Project, we champion a prevention-first approach to mental and relational health.
By focusing on relational wellbeing as the foundation of every healthy system, we help schools, leaders, and organizations move from reaction to creation, designing spaces where people can heal, connect, and perform at their best.
Through accessible, practical frameworks like The AMEND Practice™, we teach human-centered leadership skills that strengthen trust, reduce burnout, and build communities where wellbeing becomes the norm, not the exception.
Our Services | What We Offer
Our Services | What We Offer
Advocacy | Education | Prevention
Advocacy | Education | Prevention
Elephant & Willow builds awareness around the systemic roots of mental-health challenges and equips leaders, educators, and communities to prevent them before they begin.
Advocacy Training & Education
We train leaders, organizations, and educators to recognize how mental-health inequities and relational trauma show up inside systems—and how to respond through policy, language, and culture change.
Systemic Consulting | Applied Relational Healing™
Our consulting model gives organizations tools to design prevention-first cultures. We help leaders understand what relational trauma is, where it lives in systems, and how to create environments that actively support emotional wellbeing.
Community Training | The AMEND Practice™
Our signature community program closes the trauma-prevention gap. In this high-impact workshop, participants learn the foundations of relational wellbeing, emotional literacy, and human-centered leadership that strengthen the mental-health ecosystem of their schools and organizations.
Advocacy Training & Education | Mental Health Systems Awareness
Advocacy Training & Education | Mental Health Systems Awareness
Building Prevention-First Leaders and Communities
Participants and Organizations will gain:
Understanding of mental-health systems and barriers. Learn how policy, culture, and access influence prevention.
Advocacy tools for equity and change. Discover how to influence systems at the school, organizational, and community level.
Skills for public engagement. Translate research and relational health principles into language that moves policy and people.
Community organizing through a prevention lens. Mobilize networks to promote awareness, early intervention, and wellbeing.
Confidence to lead systemic change. Equip emerging advocates to build trauma-preventive environments in their spheres of influence.
Systemic Consulting | Applied Relational Healing™ (ARH)
Systemic Consulting | Applied Relational Healing™ (ARH)
Systemic Consulting | Applied Relational Healing™ (ARH)
Systemic Consulting | Applied Relational Healing™ (ARH)
Systemic-Level Prevention & Organizational Healing
Organizations will gain:
Prevention-first systems. Learn to identify and interrupt early signs of relational breakdown before burnout or turnover begins.
Relational focus at every level. Center human connection as the foundation for wellbeing and performance.
Scalable frameworks. Integrate relational literacy into policy, onboarding, and leadership development.
A shared language for addressing root causes. Replace quick fixes with systemic awareness that supports long-term change.
Sustainable systems of care. Build organizational resilience that lasts beyond individual leader
Community Training | The AMEND Practice™
Community Training | The AMEND Practice™
Community-Based Emotional Regulation & Relational Repair
Participants will gain:
Practical emotional regulation tools. Step-by-step methods to de-escalate stress and restore safety in real time.
Language that builds connection. Replace fear and defensiveness with attuned communication and trust.
Confidence supporting others through distress. Learn to co-regulate and prevent crisis before it happens.
Awareness of relational patterns. Understand how early experiences shape reactions—and how to rewrite them.
Resilience without burnout. Hold emotional space without absorbing others’ stress.
Who We Work With
Who We Work With
We partner with leaders across education, healthcare, business and community systems to build prevention-first cultures where wellbeing comes first.
Individuals & Teams | Parents • Teachers • Educators • Athletics • Staff • Leaders
Educational Systems | School Districts • Superintendents • Principals • Student Services Directors • Professional Development
Healthcare Systems | HR Directors • Chief Nursing Officers • Physician Leadership • Talent Development Managers
Corporations & HR / Leadership Teams | HR Executives • DEI Officers • Leadership Development Coordinators
Nonprofit & Community Leaders | Executive Directors • Program Managers • Board Chairs
Wherever people gather to work, teach, or lead → we help them build systems that heal instead of harm.
Why It Works
Why It Works
Employee/Staff Retention & Reduced Turnover Rates
Improved Engagement & Wellbeing-Focused Communication
Conflict Resolution | Building Healthy Cultures
About Us
About Us
At The Elephant and Willow Project....
At The Elephant and Willow Project....
We believe true healing begins before crisis. And currently, prevention is missing. Most wellbeing resources focus on treatment after crisis; very few address trauma before it becomes a legacy. Our work focuses on a prevention-first approach, disrupting the very patterns that hold trauma patterns in place so that children, families, and communities can thrive.
We combine the matriarchal wisdom and strength of an elephant with the resilience and flexibility of the willow, creating programs that are both strong and gentle, rooted and adaptive. 🐘🌿
Preventing Trauma
Preventing Trauma
Early awareness programs for youth, parents, coaches and educators.
Whole-person healing workshops that address patterns beneath behavior.
Prevention-focused training for educators, coaches, and caregivers that leads with a systemic, relational approach to interrupt harm before it begins.
Building Communities
Building Communities
Connection circles that reduce isolation and foster belonging.
Community-based healing that strengthen schools, teams, and families.
Intentional connection-building because healing happens in community, not isolation.
Our Mission
Our Mission
To interrupt generational and systemic trauma by making mental-wellness education accessible, equitable, and prevention-focused.
We equip individuals and organizations through early intervention, relational healing, and systemic awareness — ensuring that affordability never precludes access to transformation and care.
Our Vision
Our Vision
A world where every person, regardless of circumstance, has access to the tools, language, and community support needed to heal and grow.
By addressing trauma at its roots and strengthening relational systems, we create resilient leaders, thriving organizations, and equitable pathways to wellbeing for generations to come.
How You Can Help
How You Can Help
Your support makes it possible for us to:
Provide free and low-cost prevention programs to families who otherwise lack access to care.
Equip parents, educators, and coaches to recognize and respond to relational distress with compassion.
Build equitable systems where healing is the norm — not the exception.
Together, we can create systems that heal instead of harm.
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