Trauma-Informed Equity and Organizational Change

Intellectual understanding alone isn't enough to move the needle on racial equity in the workplace.
This is where trauma-informed equity work begins.
Unlike traditional approaches, which focus on policy and individual behavior change, we support leaders and organizations in examining the impact of systemic inequities on the whole Self: body, emotions, mind, and Spirit.

By bringing together these distinct but complementary perspectives, we help you explore organizational change at the intellectual, practical, and energetic levels, creating space for deeper and more profound workplace transformation.

Collective healing. Systemic transformation. Cultures of equity. United communities. Lasting impact.

Collective healing. Systemic transformation. Cultures of equity. United communities. Lasting impact.

What is Racial Equity Work?

Racial equity work is the ongoing process of examining and dismantling the systems, structures, and internalized beliefs that create unequal outcomes for people based on race. It asks us to look honestly at both the external in the form of policies, practices, institution, as well as the internal: the unconscious biases, conditioned responses, and collective wounds that live within each of us.

A Different Approach.

Our racial equity work recognizes that meaningful organizational change asks us to look beneath the surface at the systems, relationships, beliefs, and collective patterns that shape how organizations function and how people experience belonging, power, and equity.

This work is held by two distinct but complementary perspectives: Lisa Arrastia's structural, systems-based approach rooted in lived experience, and Ky Scott's 30+ years of spiritual transformation and bio-energetic work bringing energetic sensitivity to the conflicts between dominant and marginalized communities.

This work recognizes that the blocks your organization is trying to transform have a counterpart in the collective consciousness, and that lasting change requires addressing both the internal and the systemic.

Meet the Team

Lisa Arrastia, PhD

Educator, Founder & Director of The Ed Factory

Lisa is a creative educator who designs relational, ethical learning opportunities that locate harm in structural conditions rather than individual failure. She developed love pedagogy, a practice rooted in inquiry and human connection, and audioethnography, a qualitiative, aesthetics-based practice that engages people in critically narrating their experiences within American systems. Following decades as a high school teacher, school leader, and professor, Lisa now devotes herself full-time to The Ed Factory, which works at the intersection of the arts, the humanities, and public life. The seminars she designs in education and cultural studies are rooted in narrative inquiry, layerd storytelling, and creative production. Lisa is Board President of Kite-Harmony’s Nest, a liberatory education center in Hudson, New York. She is working on two books: Love Pedagogy: A curriculum for Liberation and an autofictional work on race, memory, and the cultural geography of New York City.

Ky Scott, MEd

MEd (concentration of study in Equity Education)
Serving as Faculty at BBSH for 5 years, BIP, BHSP
Pathwork Helper

Ky Scott is a bio-energetic therapist, and equity educator who has spent more than 30 years supporting leaders, educators, spiritual teachers, and changemakers in their personal and professional transformation.

His work brings together deep training in healing and human development with a commitment to equity, social justice, and collective healing. Ky believes that personal transformation and collective healing are inseparable, and helps individuals connect their inner growth to meaningful change in the communities and systems they influence.

Upcoming & Ongoing Offerings

The Ed Factory’s Discourses of Difference: a Live Online Listening Seminar

January - February 2027

Discourses of Difference is a live, online listening seminar unfolding across four intensive weekends, using audioethnography, layered storytelling, and critical study to examine how race, power, and history shape the stories we tell about ourselves and others.

Through writing, close listening, digital remixing, and creative production, participants move between personal narrative and broader historical and structural contexts, culminating in a public Hearing Collective where narrators and participants listen together and reflect on what the work reveals. Sign up here.

  • Live, online via Zoom

    23–24 Jan, 12:00–5:00pm ET
    6–7 Feb, 12:00–5:00pm ET
    20–21 Feb, 12:00–5:00pm ET
    27 Feb, 12:00–5:00pm ET
    28 Feb, 12:30–3:30pm ET

    Hearing Collective listening event

  • $550.00

    For registration and more information on tuition and early registration discounts click here.

“Celluloid Closet:”Foundations in Queer Cinema

January - February 2027

A live, online seminar attending to queer film history, desire, identity, visibility, surveillance, and the politics of representation.

Across five Saturday sessions, participants study ten landmark films with the tool of cinematic marginalia, examining how film has shaped internalized queerphobia and the stories we tell about ourselves and others. Participants will explore through personal writing, small group discussion, and a short final presentation. This seminar is ideal for Queer leaders, educators, school counselors, and straight allies committed to being conscious and effective accomplices.

“Celluloid Closet” is taught in partnership with The Ed Factory.

  • Five Saturdays:

    January 23 – February 20
    11am–2pm EDT

    Live Online via Zoom

  • Pricing and Registration link coming soon.

White Racial Affinity Group

Starting in March 2027

This is an ongoing monthly offering for white racial accomplices committed to going beyond surface level support. In small groups, participants do the inner work of transforming internalized racism and building the skills to show up as true, grounded partners in collective transformation.

White leaders learn that the first step in showing up for the larger anti-racist work, is focusing on the deep inner work of interrogating our own miseducation of history and identifying our internalized racism as it lives with in bodies, emotions and thoughts. This is a brave & safe space to lean into community for building resilience to look in the harsh mirror of truth.

  • Starting March 2027. Specific dates and times to be announced

  • $50 facilitation fee to set up your group, with check-ins every four months

Schedule a 15-Minute Consultation.

Interested in attending an event? If you don’t see a register link or have questions, please reach out. We’ll make sure you have all the information you need to attend.

“Think for yourself, act for yourself, challenge, and question authority. But do it with others. As urgent as the moment is, we need to build and strategize for the long-term, and have the patience to weather the setbacks and challenges that are coming. The kind of change we want, systemic change, will not happen overnight.”

-HOWARD ZINN
A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES