The BR Pilot Project (Bearing Witness - Reclaiming Truth)

is a trauma-informed arts-based initiative to help victims and survivors

shape and share their experiences.

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I support victims and survivors in shaping and expressing their lived experiences through visual art,

writing, guided narrative work, and legacy projects. Whether the goal is personal healing,

connection with loved ones, supporting others through shared experience, advocating for reform, or

support in working with legal counsel, I help survivors give form to what they’ve lived—on their own terms. 

In addition to being a business and communications executive with over three decades of professional experience, I am also an artist and art therapy practitioner with additional training in healing arts, DEIA, negotiation, conflict resolution and mediation, and workplace psychological health and safety. I have also completed training in trauma-informed practice.

 

​Who Is The BR Pilot Project For

• Individuals and groups 

• Those ready to shape and share the truth—whether privately, with family, counsel, or institutions

• Survivors wanting to create a personal or public legacy piece or exhibition

• Individuals and groups exploring healing, accountability and justice, or collective change

• Organizations and legal practices providing trauma-informed services

 

How The BR Pilot Project Works
This process is grounded, respectful, and survivor-led. It may include:

• One-on-one guided narrative sessions

• Visual art or creative writing exercises

• Legacy project development and artistic exhibitions

• Supporting clients and/or legal counsel pursuing justice

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​What the BR Project Looks Like in Action...

 

For Victim Services and Community Organizations:

Community organizations supporting survivors can benefit from the BR Project to offer meaningful,
trauma-informed programming, including:

• Facilitated narrative and creative arts/expression groups (typically once weekly for four to eight weeks)

• Collective legacy projects, including visual art exhibits and written or audio/video storytelling

• Optional client support in preparing for media, institutional, and legal testimony

 

For Individual Survivors:

The BR Project supports individuals in sharing their lived experiences.
Services include:

• One-on-one narrative coaching to help organize and make meaning of what happened

• Creative legacy development, such as story writing, audio/video narratives, and artwork

• Support in preparing for proceedings, public testimony, or media engagement

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For Institutions Committed to Healing and Accountability:

Many institutions are being called upon to reckon with past and present harm. Survivors and communities are demanding more than apologies or policy reform—they are asking to be heard, acknowledged, and included in shaping what comes next. The BR Project supports institutions in moving beyond performative responses by embedding survivor-led storytelling into processes of accountability, building trust, and cultural change. The BR Project helps institutions:

• Collect and ethically curate survivor narratives in direct consultation with those impacted

• Co-create public storytelling or legacy art projects (e.g. exhibits, installations, written work) that honour lived experience and truth

• Facilitate leadership and staff reflection sessions to bear witness, engage with survivor testimony, and reflect on implications for institutional values, culture, and practice

 

For Legal Practices:

Survivors navigating legal processes often carry not only complex facts—but deep emotional injuries.

When clients are overwhelmed or retraumatized, their ability to contribute to the process can suffer. The BR Project provides a unique service that strengthens client relationships and supports more effective outcomes—while reducing harm. The BR Pilot project currently offers:

• Support to help clients safely share and articulate their experiences

• Support for survivors preparing victim statements that are truthful, structured, and aligned with legal needs

• Training and consultation for legal teams on trauma-informed communication and engaging with emotionally complex client narratives
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Why This Work Matters:

This work is about helping survivors speak not only to what happened—but to who they are, and what they choose to carry forward.

The BR Pilot Project stands for truth reclaimed, stories honoured, and voices made visible—in service of healing, connection, advocacy, and accountability and justice.

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