A community-led approach to healing
The Safe Embrace Trauma Healing (SETH) model is a new paradigm for trauma recovery that democratizes access to mental health and healing resources.
Developed by Elayne Kalila Doughty, MA MFT, the SETH approach takes the power of healing solely out of the hands of experts alone - and places it into the hands of communities who most need to access their inner strength and innate healing wisdom.
Developed by Elayne Kalila Doughty, MA MFT, the SETH approach takes the power of healing solely out of the hands of experts alone - and places it into the hands of communities who most need to access their inner strength and innate healing wisdom.
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Traditional Model
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SETH Model
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This approach is critical in many communities in the Global South, where the absence of licensed mental health workers is surpassed by the vast need for replacing the cycle of trauma due to violence, poverty, exploitation and abuse with a new cycle of healing that spreads at the grassroots level, from community to community and generation to generation.
The SETH approach is also just as relevant in the Global North, where issues like racism, oppression, gender-based violence, trafficking, and bullying are ubiquitous in our own communities, demanding a radical shift in how we heal ourselves and each other.
The SETH approach is also just as relevant in the Global North, where issues like racism, oppression, gender-based violence, trafficking, and bullying are ubiquitous in our own communities, demanding a radical shift in how we heal ourselves and each other.
Healing Modalities
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COLUMN WITH BACKGROUND COLOR Somatic
Awareness 
Somatic Awareness
highlights the mind-body connection, giving survivors knowledge, self-awareness, and tools to manage regulate their nervous systems. |
COLUMN WITH BACKGROUND COLOR Mindfulness
Mindfulness practices help survivors to be present with emotions, feelings, and sensations in the body, so they can fully move through.
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COLUMN WITH BACKGROUND COLOR Creative Arts Therapy
The Creative Arts (music, dance, drama, art) help to develop new relationships to mind, body, and spirit while honoring culturally relevant healing traditions.
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COLUMN WITH BACKGROUND COLOR Social Rehabilitation
Social Rehabilitation places survivors into a safe and supportive community where they can heal and develop new connections to others and themselves.
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Outcomes
The global SETH model is designed to impact communities on multiple levels:
To date, Global Gratitude Alliance, SETH's implementation partner, has trained over 300 community leaders from 177 organizations in 12 countries who serve over 60,000 community members around the world. Learn more here.
- Trauma healing: Survivors' symptoms of trauma are ameliorated.
- Capacity building: Local staff learn skills to address traumas safely and effectively.
- Community building: Survivors learn to set up support groups in their local communities
- Secondary trauma healing: Local staff learn tools for coping with secondary trauma, stress, and burnout.
To date, Global Gratitude Alliance, SETH's implementation partner, has trained over 300 community leaders from 177 organizations in 12 countries who serve over 60,000 community members around the world. Learn more here.