Organisational Development and Consultancy

"It's about changing not just what systems do, but who they are, their very fabric, their DNA, their bones. It's about humanizing systems: making them healthier, more relational, more connected, and more reflective."

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Blue Knot Foundation understands the challenges of trauma-informed organisational development. Our consultancy service supports organisations to design and implement an achievable development process, which meets current and future needs. This can include review of culture, practice, policies, procedures, systems and programs. Trauma-informed organisational development benefits staff, clients and the organisational alike.

Through a staged process, Blue Knot Foundation’s trauma-informed consultancy supports organisations/systems/services to design and/or modify their current culture, practices, policies and procedures.

This focuses on the core trauma informed principles of safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration and empowerment as well as attunement to diversity.

It supports you, your team and your organisation to progress through the stages from being trauma aware to becoming trauma sensitive, trauma responsive and finally to being a trauma-informed organisation. This is not an end process, but a constant reflection and growth process that continues to challenge us all to become more deeply congruent with these principles.

Building Trauma-informed Organisations

The process of implementing and embedding trauma-informed change necessitates the active engagement of all staff. The beliefs held by the organisation – its culture, structure, philosophy and narratives, impact on and go hand in hand with professional best practice.

To apply a trauma responsive lens an organisation must reflect on multiple aspects of the system:

the physical environment,
assessment and interventions,
staff relationships and morale,
organisational communication,
response to vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue

Capacity Building Services

Blue Knot provides a range of consultancy services to support any organisation to build capacity, NFP, Government or Corporate we can develop a package that is bespoke to your service.

We provide:

Organisational Trauma-Informed Assessment
Review of Policies and Procedures with a trauma-sensitive lens
Develop a Trauma-Informed Organisational Framework
Facilitate Leadership and Executive Workshops to support strategy and planning
Lead team processes to develop a Trauma-Informed Charter to embed trauma-informed principles for teams and individuals
Organisational Walkthroughs – both environmental and processes
Develop a fit for purpose implementation plan to lead you through a trauma-informed transformation