Thursday, October 23, 2025

Declaring it a safe place doesn’t make it so

“This is a safe space” doesn’t make it a safe space.

But, we’ve all heard this phrase shared at the start of a presentation or sharing time.

The trouble is, this statement alone doesn’t make it so.

A place is only made safe to share openly and judgement free if there are communal understandings already in place and agreed upon by all.

This creates a space of safety.

Unless you’ve done the work prior, you can’t just declare a space as safe.

You need to put the work in first…

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