Phase 2 Participation Event Outputs
Participation Event Harvest
As part of the Practice Initiatives Showcase Event in December 2025, three reflective, participatory exercises were complete with attendees that invited practitioners to collectively explore:
- what is sustaining their work,
- what may be holding them back, and
- what new practices are needed to move forward.
Summary of reflective exercises and participant feedback
As part of the Practice Initiatives Showcase Event were three reflective, participatory exercises with attendees that invited practitioners to collectively explore what is sustaining their work, what may be holding them back, and what new practices are needed to move forward. Using accessible visual metaphors and creative reflection, participants were asked to consider: what they want to continue (鈥渨hat is working and what do we want to sing about?鈥), what they need to stop (鈥渨hat is no longer serving us鈥), and what they want to start (鈥渨hat seeds should we plant next?鈥). These reflections captured key themes across teamwork, leadership, systems, and wellbeing, highlighting the strong relational foundations already present, the pressures created by workload and bureaucracy, and the shared desire to invest in environments, practices, and supports that enable trauma-informed work to flourish. The exercise created a reflective bridge between individual experience and system-level change, reinforcing the TARA Project鈥檚 commitment to co-creation, practitioner voice, and embedding trauma-informed principles in everyday practice.
