Cultivating Safe Spaces

ABOUT YOUR WORKSHOP:

The Cultivating Safe Spaces workshop is based on the groundbreaking work of Elaine Alec and helps people to understand what decolonizing looks like in practice when working with groups and community programs. The Cultivating Safe Spaces workshop is designed to empower you with the practical skills needed to create an inclusive atmosphere for collaboration and understanding within your teams and groups. It provides a framework and tools to support meaningful and genuine relationship building and reconciliation. It will invite you to look inwards.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn and reflect upon the Four Necessary Conditions for Cultivating Safe Spaces.

• Understand the Four Protocols needed to Cultivate Safe Spaces.

• Explore the Four Perspectives that come together to create and Cultivate Safe Spaces.

Big thanks!! This workshop is sponsored by and hosted at theDock - Centre for Social Impact. theDock is a space for community building and collaboration within the local social impact sector, we thank them for their contribution to the work we do to provide affordable education to Victoria's non-profits and charities. For more info on this super agency, https://www.thedockvictoria.com/

ABOUT YOUR TRAINER:

Susana Guardado was born in El Salvador and came to Turtle Island at the age of 17. She is grateful and happy to now live in the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking territories. Susana worked for two decades as a community-based youth worker in Victoria including work as a violence prevention educator through the Red Cross and the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre, a school-based Youth and Family Counsellor, and a Drop-In Centre Coordinator. She was also a Coach for the Youth Program Quality Initiative which supported organizations in Victoria to assess and strengthen their youth programs.

“My early years as a front-line youth worker and as a prevention-educator on issues such as suicide, child abuse and sexualized violence taught me the importance of skilled group-facilitation for positive social transformation and have provided me the skills needed to hold space for difficult conversations. The youth I worked with taught me to create fun, engaging and meaningful learning environments that cater to diverse audiences.”

Susana is a certified Cultivating Safe Spaces Facilitator as well as a visual practitioner who integrates visuals into her facilitation and learning design work. For more information on her work, visit: www.brightlightideas.ca

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

theDock - Centre for Social Impact, 722 Cormorant Street, Victoria, Canada