Creating Psychological Safety

Be Fearless, Stay Safe

Psychological safety is the degree of fearlessness to give conscious and open expression to who we truly are. The lack of psychological safety (fearfulness) between individuals in the places people live, learn, play, work and pray leads to the immensity of human potential being unconsciously employed protectively rather than proactively.

Psychological safety is a deeply personal issue. The level of felt psychological safety that an individual brings to their relationship with another determines the quality of the interaction between individuals. Key people in authority need and deserve the psychological safety opportunities to examine their own current level of psychological safety so that they can fearlessly inspire their charges to move from fearfulness to fearlessness.

The author hopes that the reader will experience the psychological safety to create fearless and inclusive relationships in all their life settings. The pathways to psychological safety are outlined throughout the book with special attention given to parents, teachers, managers and leaders, who are the architects of the relationships they create with significant others – be those of an unconscious psychological safeguarding or conscious psychological safety nature.