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Case studies

Chayn's work in practice

Organisations around the world borrow, adapt and build on our trauma-informed resources. These are their stories.

Case studies

Each organisation has adapted our trauma-informed approach in its own way. Choose a story to see how.

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    FreeFrom

    How FreeFrom adapted Chayn’s White Paper on Trauma-Informed Design into an internal guide for safer survivor focus groups and interviews.

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    William Joseph

    How design agency William Joseph used Chayn’s trauma-informed design principles, white paper and workshops to support safer research and stronger teams.

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    La Sobremesa

    How Chayn’s strategy co-creation process is inspiring La Sobremesa, a Latin American consultancy, and three more organisations.

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    Mapa

    How Brazil’s Mapa found confidence in its design choices, and permission to work in the open, through Chayn’s trauma-informed resources.

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    Mhor Collective

    How Scotland’s Mhor Collective deepened its co-design practice through Chayn’s resources and free training on trauma-informed design.

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    Everyone’s Invited

    How Everyone’s Invited found a model for survivor-led work, and for how a safe space should feel, in Chayn’s trauma-informed approach.

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Read Chayn's reports

Our research and impact reports share what we have learned from survivors, and how our work is growing.

  • Chayn Research

    Explicit Harms of Non-Explicit Images

    Defining image-based abuse in Pakistan and the diaspora. Chayn's research into how any image — nude or ordinary — can be weaponised once it is shared without consent.

  • Impact report

    Our 2023–2024 Impact Report

    How Chayn supported survivors and built the movement to end gender-based violence in 2023–2024 — our reach, depth of impact, and movement-building work.