Accessibility
Ensuring spaces can be used and navigated by everyone, regardless of ability, age, or background.
Agency
The ability for individuals to make choices and have control over their environment and actions.
Confidentiality
Protecting personal information and ensuring survivors feel safe sharing their needs without fear of exposure.
Cultural Sensitivity
Recognising and respecting diverse cultural backgrounds, traditions, and practices when designing spaces.Our team of experts can help transform your office, retail space, or restaurant into a welcoming and stylish environment that reflects your brand and values.
Empowerment
Encouraging individuals to regain control, make choices, and feel confident within the spaces they occupy.
Flexibility
The ability of a space to adapt to different needs and uses, ensuring it remains supportive for a variety of people and circumstances.
Healing Environment
A space intentionally designed to promote recovery, calm, and well-being through thoughtful choices in layout, materials, lighting, and atmosphere.
Inclusion
Designing spaces that welcome and support people of all identities, experiences, and abilities.
Lived Experience
First-hand knowledge gained through personal experience of trauma and recovery. We use this insight to ensure design guidance is empathetic and relevant.
Privacy & Dignity
The assurance that individuals have control over their personal space and information, and are treated with respect in their environment.
Psychological Safety
The feeling of being secure, respected, and free from judgment or harm in a space. In design, it refers to environments that reduce anxiety and promote trust.
Resilience
The capacity to recover and adapt after experiencing trauma. Spaces can help foster resilience by providing stability and comfort.
Safe Space
A physical or emotional environment where individuals feel protected, supported, and able to express themselves without fear of harm or judgment.
Safety by Design
Integrating security and protection features directly into the environment in subtle, supportive ways, without creating a sense of surveillance or confinement.
Sensory Design
The thoughtful use of light, sound, texture, scent, and colour to create environments that are calming rather than overwhelming.
Survivor-Centred
A design or service approach that prioritises the needs, experiences, and voices of survivors in every decision.
Trauma-Informed Design
An approach to creating spaces that recognises the impact of trauma and prioritises safety, trust, empowerment, and healing. It means designing environments that reduce triggers and support recovery.
Triggers
Environmental cues (such as sounds, smells, or visual elements) that can bring back distressing memories of past trauma. Trauma-informed design seeks to minimise or manage these.
Trustworthiness
Building confidence through transparency, reliability, and consistent actions in both design and services.