ABSTRACT
The Sanctuary Model® represents a theory-based, trauma-informed, evidence-supported, whole-culture approach that has a clear and structured methodology for creating or changing an organisational culture. The objective of such a change is to more effectively provide a cohesive context within which healing from psychological and social traumatic experience can be addressed. As an organisational culture intervention, it is designed to facilitate the development of structures, processes and behaviours on the part of staff, clients and the community as a whole that can counteract the biological, affective, cognitive, social and existential wounds suffered by the victims of traumatic experience and extended exposure to adversity.
