Building Psychological & Social Safety Today

Studies clearly show that teams need psychological and social safety in order to collaborate effectively across differences and to support innovation, learning, and growth. In fast-changing environments and diverse teams, establishing this sense of safety can be difficult, yet it is entirely possible. This 1-day workshop offers a practical, evidence-informed four-step framework for shaping psychological and social safety practices that include and protect all members of the team, rather than centering only certain preferences, needs, or voices.

Going beyond buzzwords and one-size-fits-all tips, the workshop first examines what science says about how the differences in our identities and access to privilege and power shape our experiences of safety in groups today.

It then turns these insights into practical, customisable strategies that you can use – or help others use – to design settings and encourage behaviours that promote safety and effectiveness in your teams.

Throughout the course, you will map your own context and start designing a practical action plan ready to evolve further, test, and implement beyond the course.

In this course, you will learn how to help yourself and those you work with so that you/they can better:

• Articulate a deeper understanding of psychological and social safety and how identity, context, and power dynamics shape risks, needs, and perceptions across differences. 
• Design concrete strategies using a four-step process to intentionally support psychological and social safety across different groups and situations.
• Plan for specific circumstances and take a draft action plan back to your own context to build further, test and implement. 

This course format is one that uses conceptual inputs, discussion, structured case analysis, peer sharing, demonstrations of different techniques, and action-planning for your context.

This course is for you if you work with people from diverse backgrounds and identities and who want to build psychologically and socially safe environments, in roles such as:

• Organisational development trainers / facilitators, consultants, and coaches,
• Higher education staff and faculty, program leaders, student supports, international offices,
• HR: People managers, Organisational leaders, L&D professionals,
• Diversity, Inclusion and Collaboration specialists,
• Leaders who work with diverse interest holders whose differences span cultures, disciplines, functions, geographies or other considerations.

Contact us if you have questions about the suitability of this course for your circumstances.