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Connected Conversations – Ep. 23 | Designing for Healing: Trauma-Informed Spaces with Ghizlaine Mallek
Can the spaces we live and work in help us connect & heal?
In this transformative episode of Connected Conversations, Ghizlaine Mallek explores the world of trauma-informed design—an approach to shaping physical environments with emotional safety, healing, and community resilience at its core.
She also speaks Arabic, French, and Derja.
Drawing from her own experience as a migrant from Algeria during the civil war, Ghizlaine shares how design became a personal and professional tool for healing—and how we can all rethink our homes, schools, and public spaces to better support mental health and…
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