Psychological Safety by Design
Build the conditions in your team and workplace for people to speak up,
contribute, challenge, learn and belong.
Psychological safety isn't simply about being nice, getting along or creating a comfortable workplace. It is about creating the conditions where people can take the interpersonal risks that make healthy teams and organizations possible – asking questions, admitting mistakes, offering different perspectives, challenging assumptions, raising concerns and learning together.
Psychological Safety by Design uses Worldview Intelligence as its foundation to help participants understand why people experience the same workplace differently – and how those differences influence trust, communication, belonging and willingness to speak up.
Through exploration, practical tools and facilitated conversations, participants will:
Understand how worldviews and assumptions shape workplace relationships and perceptions of safety.
Explore the Six Dimensions of Worldviews – reality, history, future, values, practices and knowledge – and their connection to psychological safety.
Recognize behaviors and workplace conditions that create or undermine psychological safety.
Understand how the brain responds to perceived interpersonal threat and uncertainty.
Practice skills for speaking up, listening across differences, navigating disagreement and responding to vulnerability.
Examine the role of leadership, team norms, workplace practices and organizational systems in creating psychological safety.
Identify practical actions they can take immediately to strengthen psychological safety within their team or organization.
The Four Components
See the Worldviews We Bring
Understand how worldviews, assumptions and lived experiences influence how we perceive and respond to the workplace.
Understand What Creates Safety
Explore the conditions, behaviors and workplace dynamics that make it safer – or riskier – for people to speak, contribute and belong.
Practice Conversations That Matter
Build practical skills for curiosity, listening, disagreement, feedback, speaking up and responding in ways that strengthen trust.
Design for Psychological Safety
Move beyond individual behaviour to examine team norms, leadership practices, systems and structures that shape people's experience of safety.
By the end of the day, participants will have gained:
Greater awareness of how worldview experiences influence psychological safety.
Practical skills for creating safer interactions and conversations.
A shared language for talking about safety, trust, difference and belonging.
A personal and team action plan for turning insight into practice.
Psychological safety doesn't happen by accident. It is shaped by what we believe, what we do, how we respond – and the conditions we create for one another.