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HEALIT™
HEALIT™: Where Education Heals
Schools were built to measure performance — not to recognize harm.
For generations, students, educators, and families have carried the weight of systems never designed with healing in mind.
HEALIT™ changes that.
The Problem We’re Confronting.
Education has treated struggle as failure, not information.
Young people are labeled before they are listened to.
Care is optional. Pressure is structural. Support is inconsistent.
The result? Harm becomes invisible — and healing becomes accidental. HEALIT™ exists to make healing intentional, measurable, and foundational.
What HEALIT™ Makes Possible.
HEALIT™ is a national initiative rooted in a simple belief:
Healing isn’t the opposite of learning —
it’s the condition that makes learning possible.
We work across learning ecosystems from schools to universities to youth-serving organizations to communities to show what becomes possible when healing is treated not as remediation, but as infrastructure.
In doing so, HEALIT™ helps communities:
(1) recognize harm, (2) respond with care, (3) design environments where learners of all ages thrive, and (4) build ecosystems that support learning, belonging, and brilliance.
Why? Because everyone has a role in creating systems that heal.
How HEALIT™ Works:
Together, these pillars from an emerging healing-centered ecosystem for learners of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities—by design.
Narrative Campaigns on Educational Trauma
Community stories illuminate the patterns of harm learners navigate — and the conditions that allow them to heal.
Healing Literacy Collaboratives
Cross-sector partners — educators, researchers, mental health professionals, youth workers, families — work together to advance a new field of healing literacies.
HEALIT™ Assessment Tools
Innovative tools in development help learning ecosystems for all ages identify harm, support healing, and track progress toward safety, stability, and belonging.
Ecosystem Mapping + Community Design
We help communities understand the full constellation of supports surrounding learners — and coordinate care across them with clarity, intention, and shared purpose.
Collective Learning
Story circles, virtual salons, and field-building gatherings that strengthen the national practice of healing-centered education.
Where Healing Designs the Future
Whether you’re a teacher, youth worker, district leader, parent, student, researcher, policymaker, or organizer: There is a place for you in building the future of education.
Healing By Any Means (HBAM) is a systems transformation and social design lab pioneering the Science of Story. Through Narrative Systems Design™, our work builds the foundations for the world’s first healing-centered economy..
Across our ecosystem of initiatives — from public-interest tech to StoryBank™ to community-based design — we empower people and institutions to imagine and build what comes next.
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