How comparatively well-off we feel as children affects our later appetite for interpersonal risk taking in the workplace Authors: Tom Geraghty & Jade Garratt, Psychsafetycom In our work and experience with teams and organisations all over the world, we always suspected […]...
Safety and the Myth of Self-Reliance There are many myths that we Americans embrace, and the myth of triumphant self-reliance isin the top five Let’s list our heroes: lone tycoons, solo cops, misunderstood dreamers, lone and desperateparents; each is resourceful, […]...
Vertical and horizontal psychological safety Psychological safety means feeling safe (note: not necessarily comfortable) to take interpersonal risks To foster it, we need to consider the dynamics of both the transmission and reception of information – whether that’s an idea, […]...
Individual Resilience, or “Grit” You won’t find many articles on psychsafetycom about individual resilience Organisational resilience, certainly, but rarely the individual kind We tend not to find it an especially useful, or often fair, way to frame things This sometimes […]...
Coaching and Psychological Safety: listening, trust and letting go of control By Jade Garratt When I first trained as a coach, I realised there were two things I wasn’t very good at: I meant well, but I was uncomfortable with […]...
Emergence, substrate, succession, indicator species & ecotones I started my career in ecology, as an experimentalist working in a research station’s wonderfully named “Weed Science” department – a title that sounds more like a kooky 80s film than a scientific […]...
Are you at the Sharp End or the Blunt End Most people who’ve been to school (and many who haven’t!) have strong opinions about education Understandably so – education speaks to how we raise our children, what we value as […]...
In part one we explored the benefits and risks in naming psychological safety In part two, we explored power and diversity In part three we dived into dissent, non-determinism, and the seductive danger of metrics This week, in our fourth and final part of […]...
Part 2: Different people, different safety Continuing our reflections on the last five years In part one, we explored the name psychological safety itself, and here in part two, we get into diversity, myths, the proliferation of bad advice, and […]...
It’s here! The Psychological Safety Trainer Toolkit has officially launched We’re incredibly excited to share this with you Based on five years of delivering psychological safety training, workshops and consultancy, we’ve created the most complete resource available for anyone who […]...
Part 1: The Power and Peril of Naming Over the past five years of our work in psychological safety, it has transformed from a little-known term, understood and explicitly practised by only a small group of researchers and practitioners, to […]...
Not Feeling Seen: Eye Contact and Psychological Safety There really is some bad advice and research around in respect to psychological safety, in particular how it relates to aspects of neurodiversity and culture In this piece, we’re going to dive […]...
Psychological Safety Is Necessary But Not Sufficient We sometimes hear “But psychological safety isn’t enough!”, and well… Obviously It’s rather like saying that having a fully functioning car isn’t enough to make a road trip – and of course it […]...
Every year we hold Psych Safety Days and other events for our wonderful community to come together, share insights, learn new practices and examine emergent research and evidence We’re currently putting together ideas for Psych Safety Day (or Week!) 2026, […]...
There isn’t a “one-size-fits-all”, cookie-cutter, road map approach to psychological safety There are some foundational practices and principles, but the experience of psychological safety, and how it manifests, is different for everyone Our background, culture, neurodiversities, a...
By Jade Garratt It will probably come as no great surprise to those of us who work with the concept of psychological safety that one of the earliest references to the term in academic and psychological literature comes from Carl […]...
Welcome to The State of Psychological Safety Survey 2025 – the largest global survey on psychological safety ever! Psychological safety is the core ingredient behind high-performing, innovative, and happy teams It shapes whether we feel safe speaking up, sharing ideas, […]...
Barriers to Psychological Safety Executive Summary This research explores the experiential barriers to speaking up at work: not just structural or cultural factors, but the lived fears and beliefs that inhibit voice and learning Drawing on responses from 138 participants, […]...
How you respond matters “Everything you do is important to your organization People are watching you The people in your organization determine how to move forward after both successful work and how to recover after failure by watching how you […]...
Executive Summary This study examined which practices most effectively foster psychological safety in teams and organisations While behaviours such as listening and empathy underpin interpersonal safety, practices (structured, named activities like retrospectives or social contracts) create the scaf...
