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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. We help schools, leaders, and organizations build cultures of wellbeing where communities can thrive.
We believe true healing begins before crisis - yet prevention is often missing. We help schools, leaders, and organizations build cultures of wellbeing where communities can thrive.
Here at E&W, we believe that affordability should not preclude healing. Our friends that need mental health education the most, often cannot afford it. We’re committed to change that, making healing accessible.
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 shows up as teacher burnout, escalating behaviors and disengagement; in organizations, it looks like high turnover, lack of engagement, and toxic cultures. Without prevention-first strategies, leaders are stuck in a costly cycle of reacting (and modeling a reactive environment). Instead, we focus on creating trauma-free environments where people can truly thrive.
Our Solution
Prevention-First Approach
Our Solution
Prevention-First Approach
At The Elephant & Willow Project, we believe in a prevention-first approach. By focusing on relational health as the foundation of wellbeing, we help schools, leaders, and organizations shift from reacting to problems to creating environments where people can thrive. Through simple, practical tools like our AWARE framework, we teach human-centered leadership skills that strengthen trust, reduce burnout, and build communities where healing happens naturally.
Our Services | What We Offer
Our Services | What We Offer
Systemic Consulting | Applied Relational Healing™ equips leaders and organization with the tools to create prevention-first focused cultures. This creates a space for leaders to understand what relational trauma is, where it lives in systems and how to create systems that prevent it.
Community Training | The AMEND Practice™ is our signature approach to addressing the trauma-prevention gap. It's a high-impact workshop that introduces leaders, educators, and teams to the foundations of relational wellbeing and human-centered leadership.
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. We don’t wait for crisis. ARH teaches leaders to identify and interrupt the early signs of relational trauma, preventing burnout, conflict, and turnover before they begin.
A Relational focus at every level. We center human connection as the foundation for wellbeing. Teams learn to communicate, collaborate, and make decisions from a place of regulation rather than reactivity.
Scalable impact. The AMEND Practice™ is just the beginning. ARH provides the framework to expand into deeper organizational healing, embedding relational literacy into policies, onboarding, and leadership development.
A shared language for addressing root causes. Organizations replace performance-based quick fixes with a trauma-informed approach to culture. Leaders learn to name and repair what drives dysfunction beneath the surface.
Sustainable systems of care. By integrating emotional literacy and relational repair into their structure, organizations develop long-term resilience that outlasts individual leaders or initiatives.
Community Training | The AMEND Practice™
Community Training | The AMEND Practice™
Community-Based Emotional Regulation & Relational Repair
Participants will gain:
A step-by-step process for emotional regulation
Learn to guide yourself or another person from emotional overwhelm back to calm using neuroscience-based, real-time techniques.Language that transforms emotional moments into connection
Replace fear, shame, and defensiveness with clear, attuned communication that restores safety and trust.Confidence in supporting others through emotional distress
Whether in a classroom, a family, or a workplace, participants gain the ability to co-regulate and reduce escalation before it becomes crisis.An understanding of how relational patterns form, and how to change them
Discover how early experiences shape current reactions and practice tools to rewrite those automatic responses.Practical tools to strengthen relationships and prevent burnout
By learning how to hold emotional space without absorbing others’ distress, participants develop resilience and emotional sustainability.
Who We Work With
Who We Work With
Parents | Teachers | Educators | Athletics | Staff | Leaders
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
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 wisdom and strength of the 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.
Trauma-prevention training for educators, coaches, and caregivers that leads with a systemic, prevention-first approach.
Building Communities
Building Communities
Connection circles that reduce isolation and foster belonging.
Community-based healing that strengthen schools, teams, and families.
Building intentional connections because healing happens in community, not isolation.
Our Mission
Our Mission
To interrupt generational and systemic trauma by making trauma-healing and mental wellness accessible, equitable, and systemic. We empower individuals and communities through early intervention, whole-person healing, and systemic awareness, ensuring that affordability never precludes transformation and healing.
Our Vision
Our Vision
A world where every person, regardless of circumstance, has access to the tools, knowledge, and community support to heal, thrive, and grow. By addressing trauma at its root source, we create empowered individuals, resilient systems, and help develop equitable pathways to wellness 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 programs to families who otherwise cannot access healing.
• Teach parents, educators & coaches how to recognize trauma and respond with compassion.
• Build equitable systems where healing is the norm, not the exception.
Together, we can do more.
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