Partnerships

Belonging, starting with being, is built together.

No one creates a culture of belonging alone. Tap In works alongside practitioners, schools, venues and communities who share our belief that people need to feel safe being before they can belong.

Portrait of Janice Stewart-Yates smiling, wearing a patterned silk scarf
Featured partner

Janice Stewart-Yates

Co-Lead and Facilitator, Trauma-Informed Practice and Peace Education

Janice Stewart-Yates is an educator and facilitator specialising in peace education and transformative learning in global education settings. She has designed and delivered programmes across diverse international contexts, equipping educators and communities to build resilient, inclusive spaces.

Her work brings trauma-informed practice into schools and organisations, helping them create safe, healing environments rooted in understanding, cooperation and shared responsibility. Janice works where peace, belonging and educational equity meet, so that every voice is valued, heard and nurtured.

Our work together

Peace education meets trauma-informed DEI

  • Trauma-Informed Belonging study. Designed by Nicole Bonnah and co-led with Janice.
  • AIELOC Conference 2026, Bangkok. Co-presenters.
  • The Weight of Elsewhere retreat. Facilitator.
  • The Anatomy of Inclusion workshop. Created by Nicole. Janice co-facilitates, bringing peace education and deeper trauma-informed insight.
Nicole Bonnah and Janice Stewart-Yates presenting to a full room of educators at the AIELOC Conference 2026
Nicole and Janice presenting at the AIELOC Conference 2026, Bangkok.
Nicole Bonnah and Janice Stewart-Yates co-hosting REM Beijing, microphones in hand
Co-hosting REM Beijing.
Janice Stewart-Yates presenting beside a slide on why belonging is important
Janice presenting The Anatomy of Trauma-Informed Belonging.
Janice Stewart-Yates speaking with a microphone to guests seated at tables
Janice speaking at Trauma-Informed Talks on Tap.
Janice Stewart-Yates speaking beside a colourful DEI mandala painting at a Tap In event
Janice with the DEI mandala by Tenzin Dolma, Snowland Arts.
Small group around a table in conversation, worksheets and coffee mugs in front of them
Small-group dialogue in an Anatomy of Belonging session.
Anatomy of Belonging Parent Audit worksheets fanned out on a table
The Anatomy of Belonging Parent Audit, a Tap In resource.
In the room

What partnership looks like

Reel from REM Beijing at InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun, by Monika Schlosser
REM Beijing at InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun. Reel by Monika Schlosser.
Reel from Loving Strangers: The Compassion Principle, showing guests writing reflections, talking and embracing around a long dinner table
A signature session

Loving Strangers: The Compassion Principle

One. Why are you here today?

Two. Silent written reflection.

Three. Open discussion.

Each guest leaves a card on our Commitment Wall: an act of compassion they will practise that week.

Reel by Nicole Bonnah.

Teachers gathered around a long table with coffee and workshop cards
Tap In Coffee Collab, a session for teachers of the Beijing Inclusion Network.
Collaborators

Practitioners we create with

Aisha Moffett

Founder and coach, CORE. Resilience and transformation.

Rachel George

Grief practitioner, founder of Soulful Mourning.

Kamara Coaxum

DEI Lead, International School of Beijing. Partner on our Rooted Response parent series.

Veronica Molinari

Wellness practitioner, founder of Youlmage. Aromatherapy and sound healing.

Tenzin Dolma

Partner artist, founder of Snowland Arts.

Feniá G.

Poet and artist.

Kathlyn Kocher Paananen

Former DEI Lead, International School of Beijing. Partner on our parent dialogue series.

Partners, sponsors and venues

The people and places who make it possible

International School of Beijing
Western Academy of Beijing
Cheers
Li-Pi Records
Basil, fitness with flavour
Freeleaf
Transformational Leadership Consulting Services
SchoolsInternational School of BeijingWestern Academy of BeijingKeystone Academy
SponsorsIHG InterContinentalCheersBasilBeloved DesignsLi-Pi RecordsFreeleaf
VenuesInterContinental Beijing SanlitunShangri-La BeijingBar ShakeBar ViveBar OvertoneJinShangLi-Pi Records
Creative partnersMa Xiaoya

Production for What Inclusion Means to Me, plus Voices of Light photography and film.

Snowland Arts

Founded by Tenzin Dolma. Partner artist.

Snowland Arts artists with a collaborative portrait painting
Networks and mediaBeijing Inclusion Network

Member

AIELOC

Association of International Educators and Leaders of Color. Conference presenters, 2026.

The Informed Perspective

Media partner, Perspectives podcast.

Programme partnersTransformational Leadership Consulting Services

Invited speakers on anti-assimilation, and partners in their year-long programme.

Our REM platform draws on community resources from the UK organisation Race Equality Matters.

Partner with us

Schools, venues, practitioners and organisations: if you want to build belonging with your community, we would love to hear from you.

nicole@tapinthinktank.com

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