Cultivating Safe Spaces
WHAT IS Cultivating Safe Spaces?
Cultivating Safe Spaces (CSS) is a wholistic training that uses traditional Indigenous knowledge and values to build heart-centered spaces that promote diversity and inclusion. The framework was developed in 2019 by Elaine Alec and is inspired by En’owkinwixw, a Syilx (Okanagan) approach to collaboration and decision making using established protocols and agreements to cultivate a safe space for people to work together.
The framework includes 3 areas of understanding to support cultivating safe spaces: the four necessary conditions for cultivating safe spaces, the four protocols for cultivating safe spaces, and understanding the four perspectives for cultivating safe spaces.
WHO IS Cultivating Safe Spaces FOR?
CSS Training is ideal for individuals and organizations that want to:
- Learn tools, protocols, conditions, and teachings to cultivate a safe space for yourself and others, while promoting diversity and inclusion
- Learn how to actively decolonize spaces and apply teachings within the workplace and your personal life
- Gain self-awareness and confidence to move deeper into your healing
- Participate in reconciliation and meaningful relationship building
Offerings
TYPES OF CULTIVATING SAFE SPACES TRAININGs OFFERED
- 45-90 minute presentations provide an overview of the Cultivating Safe Spaces framework
- 3-4 hour workshops provide opportunities for participants to learn more about each piece of the framework
- 5-6 hour workshops provide opportunities for participants to learn more about each piece of the framework and interact with each other through breakout opportunities to discuss implementation of the CSS framework
Virtual and In-Person training sessions are available.
