Psych Safety Days, Events, Meetups and Open Lean Coffee

Next Meetup: Psychological Safety Open Lean Coffee: September (date TBC) 2025

The next psychological safety meetup is in October 2025

And our next Open Lean Coffee will be open for registration soon!

Everyone is welcome – there will be opportunities to contribute verbally, or by text, or simply observe if that’s what you’re comfortable doing.

Psychological Safety Meetup Format

The general format is usually a 1-hour to 90-minute virtual meetup, sometimes longer, using Zoom as the platform, open to everyone, focussed on psychological safety theory, practice, and related topics.

We start off with a brief introduction and housekeeping, followed Lean Coffee (or alternatively by short talk and then group discussions) There’s no expectation to speak up – you may remain silent, with your video off, for the entire meetup if you wish.

Thanks to the folks at the psychsafety community for helping organise it.

If you’d like to listen to the music that we used in a past meetup, you can listen to the Psychological Safety playlist on Spotify here!

Psych Safety Days

We also run in-person Psych Safety Days and Live Events! With a different location each time, we’ve been joined by wonderful practitioners, experts and community members at our Psych Safety Day USA 2022, Psych Safety Day Barcelona 2023, Psych Safety Day Seville 2024, and planning Psych Safety Day Malaga 2025!

For 2026, things are looking a little different, so you can have your say here in what Psych Safety Day 2026 will be like! We may even run it as a Psychological Safety Week if there’s enough interest!

Speaking at the psych safety meetup

If you’re interested in speaking at one of the psych safety meetups, contact us here and let us know what you’d like to speak on.

We love to hear from subject matter experts, but we’re also really happy to hear from people who simply wish to tell their story. We are particularly excited to hear from people from marginalised or minority groups, and if you’ve never presented before or are nervous about it, don’t worry – we’ll provide you with support and guidance to help you put together a talk and deliver it with confidence.

And get in touch if you’re interested in supporting or hosting one of our Psych Safety Days!

The Social Contract / Code of Conduct for meetups and workshops

We will work towards creating a psychologically safe space for everyone
We will respect each other and treat all with dignity
We will keep an open mind, and be curious, not judgemental.
We adhere to the Chatham House Rule – you are free to share what was discussed, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of any participant may be revealed.
We do not record the discussions. We do not permit using video or audio recording services, or tools (such as AI tools) to record or summarise the discussions.
We can contribute in different ways – through chat, virtual post-its, reactions, and/or verbally, using the hand raise option if available.
Any racism, homophobia, transphobia, or other intentional exclusionary language behaviour will result in removal and a ban. We can all learn, and none of us are perfect, so if you make a mistake and apologise when it’s pointed out, it’s great, however repeated offences will not be tolerated.
Meetups and community events are not a platform to promote commercial products or services. Articles on commercial websites are ok, if they’re relevant.
Safeguarding: If you have a concern about the meetup, another attendee, or other problem that you want to raise, you can email tom@psychsafety.com or jade@psychsafety.com and we’ll do whatever we can, in confidence.
We reserve the right to remove people from sessions due to repeated or persistent breaches of this CoC.
Have fun!

Past psychological safety meetups and Psych Safety Days

Psych Safety Day 2024

May 2024

After the success of our last Psychological Safety Day in Barcelona, we decided to do Psych Safety Day again in 2024, in Seville!

Psych Safety Day 2023

July 2023

Psych Safety Day 2023 was was a full-day comprehensive workshop encompassing core elements of all the online sessions and all the practices from the Practice Masterclass, including TRIZ, Empathy Mapping, After Action Reviews and Retrospectives.

Psychological Safety and Curiosity

23rd May 2023

Thanks so much to the awesome Cherisa Zafft for facilitating this psychological safety meetup, and all the wonderful people who attended. It was fab; we had some great conversations and I learned a lot from the amazing folks there.

You can listen to Cherisa’s summary of the event in this awesome video, and check out the great wordcloud that we generated in the meetup 🙂

Some useful resources that Cherisa has gathered include this on the Johari Window, and the Stinky Fish!

The Spectrum of Psychological Safety, with Cherisa Zafft and Patrick Senez

18th April 2023

This meetup was fab, thanks so much to the excellent facilitation skills of Cherisa Zafft and Patrick Senez, as well as all the wonderful folks who joined us 🙂 You can grab the meetup materials and outputs in this pdf. We’re already talking about running another one in May, centred on psychological safety and curiosity.

Psychological Safety Open Space

5th December 2022

Based on Harrison Owen’s Open Space Technology, this event was a unique opportunity for us to connect meaningfully with our Psychological Safety community.

We discussed intersectionality and privilege, quiet groups, different cultures and how psychological safety looks different for different people, and why we must be careful not to use a broad brush of what psychological safety looks like and apply it to everyone in the same way.

Psychological safety and neurodiversity with Sam Knuth

20th September 202

This was an amazing session with Sam Knuth speaking on neurodiversity, autism lived experience and psychological safety. The slide deck is available here.

Diversity in The Field of Psychological Safety

9th June 2022

This was an incredible session, facilitated by Romy Alexandra and Stephanie Fleming, featuring a conversation with Dr Kimberly Young-McLear. Dr. Kim is a Black, queer, scholar, activist, engineer, and educator who is unreservedly committed to human resilience, human dignity, and human rights. Kimberly is credited as the first to spearhead policy changes for locs and other natural hairstyles within the military, removing both racist language and authorising hair styles. In 2019, she attended the State of the Union as a Guest of Honour where she represented Connecticut’s 2nd District for her tireless efforts to stand against systemic bullying and harassment in the Coast Guard.

Human Factors, Resilience Engineering and Systems Safety, with Nora Jones

29th March 2022

We were lucky enough to have the amazing Nora Jones, Founder and CEO of Jeli, speaking to us. Nora is most well known for her amazing work on Chaos Engineering and has a great passion for psychological safety and the intersection of software and people.