ABOUT US

Fred is a certified trauma professional, S.T.A.R. Practitioner (Strategies for Awareness & Resilience), and Somatic Abolitionist. He has over 400 hours of trauma training and 22 years of experience navigating organizational cultures as a business executive, community organizer, social entrepreneur, and Christian pastor (which is still his primary vocation). He is the founder of 3e Restoration Inc., a national non-profit and community development agency that equips, encourages, and empowers faith communities and other agencies to do the same for neighbors transitioning through social displacement. Fred was one of the leaders to organize the City of Williamsburg's historic Truth & Reconciliation Committee. He is also a founding member of the board of directors for Virginia Racial Healing Institute, an Advisory Board member for Sentara Williamsburg Regional Hospital, Freekind, and Bacon Street Youth and Family Services, a member of the leadership team for Williamsburg's local chapter of Coming to the Table, and a member of Greater Williamsburg Trauma-Informed Community Network's Steering Committee.

Fred received his B.S. in Ministry/Bible at Amridge University and his Master’s of Religious Education in Missional Leadership from Rochester University. Currently he is a candidate for a Doctorate of Ministry in Contextual Theology in at Northern Seminary in Chicago. Fred has also served as an adjunct professor where taught courses in philosophy, ethics, leadership, pastoral care, intro to Christianity, and ethnography. He has also served as a guest lecturer on the subjects of racialized cultural systems, poverty, and missiology at various universities, such as William & Mary and Oklahoma Christian University. Fred has authored one book (Racialized Cultural Systems, Social Displacement and Christian Hospitality) and several curriculum offerings, including The FloorPlan: Living Toward Restoration & Resilience.

Alison is an Alabama native and attended Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama where she received a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies and a Master of Education in Community Counseling. Alison began her counseling career in adolescent residential treatment in 2001 as she simultaneously earned her National Counseling Certificate and received her licensure in professional counseling. As a former LPC, Alison practiced counseling for seven years before the birth of her son after which she remained home. Following her time as a primary caregiver, Alison ventured into the realm of tutoring and education, beginning with two years as a reading recovery tutor and then transitioning to full- time teaching as a middle and high school humanities educator for five years. Alison places great value in combining her counseling and education experience into training others to be both trauma-aware and trauma-responsive.

Alison and Fred have been married for 20 years and together they have one son, Ian, age 15 and their son through guardianship, Javari, age 22.

WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING COLLABORATIVE SESSIONS:

For Business Institutions, Non-Governmental, and Governmental Organizations:

  • Understanding Trauma-responsive Engagement: Tools for Your Organization

  • Trauma-responsive Organizational Leadership

  • Trauma-responsive Workplace Competencies

  • Care and Resilience in a Culture of Collective Trauma

  • Hospitality as Leadership & Presence

  • Community Development: Collaboration is Our Power

  • Community Development: Redemptive For-Profit Practices

  • Community Development: Competition or Collaboration

For Faith Communities (Churches) & Faith-Based Organizations

  • Hospitality as Leadership & Presence

  • Hospitality as Liberation in a Culture of Collective Trauma

  • The Trauma-responsive Congregation

  • Faithful Presence & Christian Community Development

Sessions range any where from two hours in length to sixteen hours in length with a follow-up prepare-discern-implement process. For more details let’s talk: connect@plxculture.com

COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

As a Collaborative our unique partnership allow us to bring an array of expertise to you. Our work would not be possible without these partners. So, when you work with us, you have the opportunity to work with them.

  • Peace'In'It Counseling

    Prell Gross, LPC & Owner

    www.peaceinitcounseling.com

  • 3e Restoration Inc.

    www.3erestoration.org

  • Made 4 Connection Trauma Care & Coaching

    Barb Stewart, Executive Director

    www.made4connection.org

  • Virginia Racial Healing Institute

    www.varacialhealinginstitute.org

What others

are saying

Listen to what others are saying.

  • Carla, Child Development Resources

    Philoxenia Culture, LLC workshops were game changers for Child Development Resources, Inc. on our journey toward more trauma responsive service delivery. They worked with us to create a training that met our staff where they were, individualizing the content to move us forward in our understanding of the impacts of stress and trauma on ourselves and the families we work with.

    The training Philoxenia Culture provided built a foundation of trauma studies knowledge so that we were all using the same vocabulary and had the same understanding of terms.

    Following the training, we have continued to use the strategies we learned by embedding the language and approaches in our practice. If you are looking to take your organization to the next level in trauma responsive service, we would highly recommend Philoxenia Culture’s support and training.

  • Nikiesha, New Horizons

    “This was not just training, it was an EXPERIENCE. This experience gave us a life-giving moment and a space to engage in introspection, challenge our assumptions, create a shared understanding, and redirect our efforts. The information was shared with such enthusiasm and conviction, that we were thoroughly engaged from start to finish. We explored several practical strategies that we could use to become more responsive to our youth and young adults. Three words - Innovative, Impactful, and Inspiring!!”

  • Kim, Executive Director with Bacon Street Youth & Family Services

    “Fred is one of the best professionals I’ve had the pleasure to work with. He is authentic, genuine, engaging and fun. His presentations are always well thought out, and I walk away feeling uplifted and enlightened. Bravo!”

We provide training and field research for companies, institutions, non-governmental organizations, non-profits, and government organizations in the areas of:

Trauma Responsiveness & Resilience | Hospitality as Leadership Formation | Community Development Practices | Redemptive For-Profit Tactics.

These four disciplines are uniquely integrated into our work offering a holistic person-centered, systems-based approach:

Strategies for Trauma-Awareness & Resilience | Ethnography | Hospitality as Leadership & Witness | Contextualized Collaborations

OUR FIVE-FOLD TRAINING APPROACH

  • Eyes & Ears

    It all starts with what we see and hear as we learn to receive new information as an invitation to new possibilities.

  • Head & Heart

    Next, you’ll discern the your reactions and responses to what you have seen and heard.

  • Hands & Feet

    The last step? We learn how prepare and implement what we discover.

  • H.I.P.

    H.I.P., Hands-on Illustrative Practices, is a learning method unique to us that allow participants to engage the input with their bodies.

  • T.A.P.

    T.A.P., Take-Away Practices, is a learning method unique to us that prepares and equips participants to embody the content in real-life.

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