Transforming Workplace Culture
Through Restorative, Culture Shift & Justice
Sweet Livity LLC is a consulting firm specializing in workplace health and well-being for businesses and organizations. Our team of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) practitioners brings a unique perspective to Human Resources, combining restorative justice, intersectional racial equity, and wellness support to revolutionize HR approaches.
Our services address specific client needs with the goal of mitigating trauma and promoting healthy, supportive work environments. We develop strategies that foster shared leadership, increased collaboration, better communication, and enhanced worker satisfaction and well-being.
This word cloud shows the depth and range of the workplace culture that we support leaders and organizations to address.
Beyond consulting, we offer education and training programs to help businesses build stronger foundations for workplace health. Our team is committed to creating inclusive, supportive, joyful workplace cultures focused on the well-being of all employees.
Our Comprehensive Services
Healing Justice Consulting
Cultivating organizations as healing spaces through immersive experiences that shift traditional consulting models to experiential approaches focused on collective care and social justice change.
Restorative HR & Workplace Conflict Management
Listening sessions, mediation spaces, crisis triage, and healing workshops introducing treatment modalities that support people with low capacity in meaningful ways.
Organizational Development
Culture shift for organizational transformation implementing "below the green line" principles in toxic environments where motivation and retention is low and safety is compromised.
Education & Training Programs
Apprenticeship training in communication, conflict resolution, wellness, restorative justice practices, diversity equity inclusion justice, and restorative HR policy development.
"Below the Green Line" Framework for Change Management
Drawn from the work of Margaret Wheatley and others, Sweet Livity applies this framework to think about how to build more resilient organizations and collaborations. This framework posits that if an organization or system attempts to resolve its problems by addressing the three "above the green line" areas only, any change is insubstantial, temporary, ineffective, and often costly.
This includes the following aspects of an organization's way of doing business (systems infrastructure):
- Structure: Manpower (staff, personnel), Materials (supplies, money and other), and Machine (equipment, facilities, and physical environment)
- Pattern/Plan: Goals, Objectives, Standards, and Laws
- Process: Procedures/Methods/Practices (ways of working)
This theory of transformational change proposes that equal, if not more, attention must focus on the three areas of organizational behaviour "below the green line" (cultural infrastructure).
- Beliefs/Identity: How key participants feel about their role in the organization/system, including behavior/attitudes/support needed
- Conversation/Information: Communication of information, who has access to information and how information is disseminated
- Relationships/Connections: How people and various departments/units are linked, and collaboration