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Museums hold stories.
People do too.
Hand Made Dreams brings trauma-informed learning and museum wellness together to help museum professionals create more thoughtful, responsive, and human-centered experiences.
JOIN AT THE BEGINNING
2027 Founding Membership
$275 for 2027
Regular Individual Membership: $350/year
Founding Member enrollment closes November 30.
Learning begins January 11, 2027.
PEOPLE | PLACES | POSSIBILITIES
How Hand Made Dreams Supp0rts Museums
LEARNING • WELLBEING • LASTING IMPACT
TRAUMA-INFORMED
MUSEUM LEARNING
Professional learning for museum professionals.
INSTITUTIONAL
TRAINING + STRATEGY
Customized learning and support for museum teams.
MUSEUM
WELLNESS
Programs and resources supporting wellbeing and emotional accessibility.
More human-centered museums for a brighter tomorrow.
OUR MISSION
Museums are not only places where stories are preserved. They are places experienced by people.
Hand Made Dreams helps museums and cultural institutions create more human-centered experiences through trauma-informed learning, staff development, museum wellness, and emotional accessibility. We support the people who welcome visitors, facilitate learning, care for collections, lead
Every person carries a story. Every space shapes how that story is experienced.
IN THE FIELD
Featured Work + Collaborations
Bringing storytelling, wellness, reflection, and human-centered practice into cultural spaces.
STORYTELLING | COMMUNITY | ART
Boca Raton Museum of Art / Living Anthologies
Hand Made Dreams contributed trauma-informed expertise to support the Living Anthologies collaborative team in creating an emotionally safer environment for personal storytelling and reflection.
ART WELLNESS EXCHANGE
UnitedHealthcare/
Let's Move
Through the Hand Made Dreams’ collaboration with UnitedHealthcare’s Let’s Move program, members engage in wellness-centered experiences using visual prompts to support emotional awareness and connection.
AUDIO | REFLECTION | ACCESS
Bloomberg Connects/Audio Visual
The reflection can be experienced through the Museum's digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, extending the experience beyond what visitors see to include moments for reflection as they engage with the museum.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Ashley L. Witherspoon, MSW, LCSW
Museum Wellness Strategist + Founder of Hand Made Dreams
Hand Made Dreams brings together mental health expertise, storytelling, and museum practice to help cultural institutions create more thoughtful, emotionally aware, and human-centered experiences.
My work is grounded in a simple belief:
Every person carries a story. Every space shapes how that story is experienced.
