Is your company struggling to create an environment where UX & Tech professionals can thrive?
At HmntyCntrd®, we believe that a shift towards more trauma-informed, human-centered approaches is critical for designing customer experiences, supporting employee wellness, and cultivating healthy organizational cultures.
Learn how we empower teams and train leaders to create sustainable, healthy and lasting change.
Uncover strategic opportunities and re-establish professional confidence through the holistic application of humanity-centered principles.
UX & Tech Professionals
- Learn how to advocate for yourself and others in profit-driven, capitalistic systems.
- Connect with like-minded individuals and reclaim passion and purpose in your craft.
- Access workshops and resources for cultivating inclusive practices and designing human-centered experiences.
Executives, Directors, & HR Managers
- Cultivate an environment that embraces diversity, inclusivity and equitable practices.
- Receive guidance for improving organizational readiness in times of disruption & crisis through systems of care.
- Promote employee wellness and professional growth for improving both quality of life and business outcomes.
What does it mean to be humanity-centered?
Inclusivity
Recognizing the value of diversity and divergent thinking & honoring unique perspectives that can contribute to a healthier work culture and improved customer experiences.
Authenticity
Encouraging people to be who they really are and moving away from cultures built on toxic positivity or punishment versus the betterment of policies or practice.
Compassion
Cultivating a trauma-informed and care-centered organization that recognizes mental health as essential to worker satisfaction, sustainable productivity, and retention of talent.
Purpose
Upholding commitments to ethical practices that unlock the full potential of creative problem-solving instead of stifling inspiration with fear and scarcity mindsets.
Equity
Infusing fairness and flexibility into policies and expectations with consideration for unique personal challenges and ongoing manifestations of deliberate and unconscious discrimination.
Sustainability
Minimizing stress factors, encouraging open communication, and providing adequate time and resources for teams to improve their organizational readiness in times of disruption or crisis.
For Individuals: You deserve a judgement-free space that fosters professional growth, wellness, & connection.
- Have you ever had a toxic workplace experience? Attend our monthly Restoring Care Support Group and work towards healing with like-minded UX and Tech professionals.
- Uncover what gets in the way of creating human-centered experiences through honest introspection and new approaches to ethics in our bi-monthly Practical Ethics Working Group. Engage in communal conversations on how to mindfully and effectively apply your learnings in real world scenarios.
- Access recorded courses, past webinars, and other resources for digestible insights you can absorb in your own time. Learn the core principles of human-centeredness, self-advocacy, and how to incorporate the lived experiences of a diverse range of users into your design thinking.
Connect with like-minded individuals in one of the most diverse, inclusive, and supportive professional growth communities. Reclaim your passion, develop new skills, and become a catalyst for change.
For Companies: Unlock new approaches for aligning business objectives with human-centered values and practices.
HmntyCntrd provides practical tools and resources for enabling your organization to:
- Reduce discouragement and break through communication barriers. Foster a mindset of inclusion, receptivity, and sincere appreciation.
- Get professional support for designing and executing human-centered, trauma-informed internal research in order to accurately identify equity issues that are unique and endemic to your company culture.
- Receive research-informed consulting for enacting practical workshops, policies, and initiatives that can dismantle deeply-internalized stress triggers.
- Learn how to create compassionate systems of care that can help heal existing trauma and provide accessible, judgement-free support within your organization.
- Offer access to our community & resources so employees have a safe and separate space for processing trauma and receiving empathetic support from professional peers.
- Engage staff with events, professionally recorded content, self-paced courses, and live cohorts that help create an alignment of values across all departments and tiers of direction, management, and production.
- Teach team members how to recognize and overcome implicit biases, privileged ignorance, and systemic discrimination within and outside the workplace.
- Develop the mindset that putting people first results in better business outcomes by creating a culture of inspiration and innovation that prioritizes the quality of the human experience.
“HmntyCntrd is without question what we as creators and designers of the future need: a space to come together to connect and develop ourselves and our creative process in a way that moves us forward toward actualization rather than traps us in a never-ending inertia loop of tech-enabled human suffering. It cannot have come at a more crucial and impactful time.”
AUBREY BLANCHE | SR DIRECTOR, PEOPLE OPERATIONS & STRATEGIC PROGRAMS
“Honestly, HmntyCntrd's course was the best thing I’ve done in years... Everyone working in product and UX needs to do it.”
- CANDI WILLIAMS | DIRECTOR OF CONTENT DESIGN
“OMG! I learned so many new ways of thinking about UX work. I'm focusing more on equity and inclusion in all aspects of my research and design work, making sure I'm taking the lived experiences of others into account. I’m so grateful for HmntyCntrd for giving me the opportunity to see the world in a new way.”
JARED SPOOL, CO-FOUNDER & CO-CEO
Interested in having HmntyCntrd support you and your employer in doing the personal work required to do your best professional work?
About Our Founder
Vivianne Castillo brings 10+ years of psychology and research experience spanning multiple contexts, cultures, and industries into crafting the actionable philosophy and practical solutions offered by HmntyCntrd®. Vivianne’s work has also been featured in notable publications such as:
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