What is Healing Centered Engagement (HCE)?
Developed by Flourish Agenda, Inc., Healing Centered Engagement (HCE) is a culturally rooted approach that provides a strength-based focus for individuals and communities to collaborate to promote healing and sustainability. It aims to improve interpersonal connections, transform practices and shape the norms and values of institutions. HCE provides youth, adults, community-based organizations, families, and the community with the tools to address trauma, enhance well-being, and create conditions for healthy achievement.
Shawn Ginwright, Ph.D.
Dr. Ginwright is the Jerome T. Murphy Professor of the Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also the Co-Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Flourish Agenda, Inc.
He is a leading innovator, provocateur, and thought leader on trauma, healing, African American youth, youth activism, and youth development. He is also a distinguished writer and a proud father.
The CARMA Principles
The CARMA Principles provide a comprehensive framework that empowers us to shift our perceptions and foster healing across every facet of our lives.
Connects us to who we are
Helps us act and make choices
Create deep connectedness
Explore our “why”
Fuels our imagination
The Four Pivots
To begin implementing HCE, it is important to understand that change does not require starting over. Instead, HCE empowers us to collectively create the conditions for healing.
The Four Pivots anchor our use of the CARMA Principles, allowing us to cultivate deeper and more meaningful connections as we think, act, and work together.
Encourages us to shift our focus
Deepens our connections
Encourages us to dream and create
Learning to be present and focused in-the-moment
