Trauma, Resilience and Understanding Equity (TRUE) is an education and implementation model that builds an inclusive organization using a hybrid of trauma informed practices and DEI methodologies in long lasting meaningful ways. Most DEI workshops only scratch the surface and don’t create a culture that is sustainable for a mission driven organization. TRUE creates actionable accountability in individuals and collectives, and centers human needs. By prioritizing human needs we are able to reduce harm in the workplace and increase well being while honoring boundaries. TRUE allows all positions within a workplace to create community, increase communication and problem solve.
Ways to Engage
TRUE Inclusivity
A scaffolded approach building up to a practicum intensive to achieve sustenance. (4-8hr per session)
TRUE Inclusivity acts as a foundation to building a brave space of communication and transparency within your organization. Through introspective and group scenario work, participants will gain various tools that can be used in the workplace and beyond. This course is about empowering the individual with these tools and is a gentle step to integration and transformational organizational change.
*BLVE will host 4 of these courses annually for per seat fee open to all organizations, or this can be ordered by a specific organization and catered to your needs, as is preferred.
This engagement includes:
Course Materials
Foundational language
Access to inter-organizational TRUE Growth Affinity Groups
TRUE Momentum
2 part series repeated quarterly to support cultural transformation within an organization.
TRUE Momentum is a recurring engagement with our inclusivity courses, accountability groups, and the examination of current policies/processes. The program is customized to meet the organizations needs while centering its people in order to support laying the foundation for an equitable and inclusive culture.
This engagement includes:
A Quarterly 2 part series (total of 8 sessions) tailored to the organization and participants needs
Growth work for participants
Interim Accountability Meetings
A minimum of 1 policy/process audit
Access to inter-organizational TRUE Growth Affinity Groups
TRUE Transformation
An ongoing Inter-departmental consultancy to support an organization through an organizational shift.
TRUE Transformation is an organizational paradigm shift. Through a minimum of an 18 month consultancy, the BLVE team will support the re-imagination of the company structure by taking an active look at dismantling white supremacy culture. Through departmental specific workshops, developing new policies/processes, codifying antidotes to white supremacy culture characteristics, and coaching, your organization will sustain antiracist tenants rooted in trauma informed practices that keep your staff engaged and excited in the organization's goals.
This engagement Includes:
Foundational Values rooted in the TRUE lens
Interdepartmental assessments
Policy/Processes Audit
Inclusive Workshops
1:1 Coaching
Documentation/Reporting
Handbook
Access to inter-organizational TRUE Growth Affinity Groups
Who We Are
Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman is an artist, activist and educator specializing in Trauma informed and Resilience practices. Sarah holds certification as a Trauma and Resilience Practitioner and Trainer in both educational and clinical fields from the internationally acclaimed Starr-Commonwealth, located in Albion, Michigan. Sarah has worked as an educator, specifically focused on social emotional expression, diverse learners, underserved communities and developing personal narratives for 20+ years in a myriad of settings including but not limited to Universities, summer camps, homeless shelters, middle schools, and both juvenile and adult detention facilities. From 2018-2022 Sarah was the Director of Hearts to Art - an arts integrated, community based healing program run by the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, for young people ages 7-17 who have experienced the death of a parent. Sarah brings a trauma informed and equity lens to all of her work and is specifically dedicated to rethinking organizational practices to remove White Supremacist and traumatic structures from operational functions. Sarah is a playwright who has had her work produced throughout North America, as well as a founder of the award winning Cue6 Theatre Company. She splits her time between Toronto and Chicago.
Why Engage in TRUE?
Resources to help understand the importance and impact of this work:
How Childhood Trauma Effects Health Across A Lifetime
The US Surgeon General’s Framework For Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being