founder of healing systems
Understanding that not all healing happens in traditional paradigms and that community is often the expert on their own journey, The Healing Centred Cooperative was formed in 2020. After a successful project bringing breathwork and music to newcomer communities, the Co-op was not able to survive the pandemic chaos in health care and dissolved in 2023.
Christine is a natural systems entrepreneur.
Health journey map with Frances Westley of the Social Innovation Fellowship (Getting to Maybe) at the Banff Centre of Arts and Creativity, 2018.
"How does one facilitate individual and community resiliency?" Christine Gibson TUFH 2018 Limerick, Ireland
Relevant Work and Training:
Co-founded Safer Spaces Training to work with organizations and professional bodies to enhance trauma-informed discourse and environments. Our team runs workshops around communication, DEI, and an individual / systems approach to trauma.
On Advocacy Committee for Canadian Women in Medicine (CWIM)
Founded and Director of The Healing Centred Cooperative, a professional organization of dreamers hoping to enhance healing care. Awarded a City of Calgary “Change Can’t Wait” grant to create music therapy and breathwork program for newcomers affected by COVID-19.
Selected for and completed the Social Innovation (Getting to Maybe) Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Completed Sprint Lab training and became a Fellow of Alberta Health Services Design Lab team
Completed Certificate in Social Innovation at Mount Royal University
Completed IDEO U Certificate in Human Centred Design Thinking
Trained with Margaret Wheatley’s Warriors For the Human Spirit program for system collapse
Alberta Health Services Design Lab Fellow
Created Solutions Studio where patients co-design solutions to their complex challenges
Embedded in Deep Adaptation work, attended workshop with Jem Bendell and Katie Carr