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 These are grass-roots, practitioner-led events that are inclusive and accessible for all […]...
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...
Executive Summary This study explored how feedback in the workplace affects both performance and psychological safety While feedback is intended to drive growth and improvement, its delivery often has mixed results Based on responses from 61 participants, the findings show […]...
Psych Safety Day 2025 was wonderful! Malaga and Seville were gorgeous, very hot, and a fabulous way to wrap up 2025 and begin looking forward to what’s happening in Psych Safety for 2026 And if you’d like to have your […]...
Executive Summary This study examined the relationship between job security and psychological safety, challenging the common assertion that “psychological safety is not job security” While the two concepts are distinct, the findings suggest that perceptions of job insecurity (such as […]...
Executive Summary In this Research Pulse, 121 respondents were asked how familiar people in their workplace are with the concept of psychological safety The results show a broadly “middle-ground” distribution: most people have heard of it, but few would call […]...
How We Think About Learning at Psych Safety At Psych Safety, we care deeply about how learning happens Not just what people take away from a session, but how it feels to be there – what kind of space it […]...
Executive Summary This study explored why people foster psychological safety, examining whether motivations are primarily moral, relational, or performance-driven While psychological safety is often discussed in terms of its organisational benefits: innovation, learning, quality, and performance, th...
By Jade Garratt Which of these do you think might damage psychological safety in a team The answer, of course, is that all of them can Sometimes it’s individual behaviours that cause harm to the psychological safety experienced by members […]...
Why Just Culture Isn’t Sticking by Tom Geraghty What Do We Mean by “Just” Culture The concept of a “Just Culture” was first developed in James Reason’s 1997 book Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents When we say “Just Culture”, […]...
By Jade Garratt Have you ever found yourself reacting to something a colleague said as if you were a child being told off by their parents, even though you’re both adults and peers Or ever said something to a teammate […]...
Comfort vs Need by Tom Geraghty What do we do when the things that help some people in the team feel psychologically safer don’t work for everyone Perhaps one person says they need time away from the main meeting group […]...
“Sociological” Safety By Tom Geraghty The term psychological safety has been in use since Carl Rogers’ work in the 1950s and was applied to organisational contexts by Schein and Bennis (among others) in the 1960s Since Amy Edmondson’s influential research […]...
