As a Certified Cultivating Safe Spaces Facilitator my work is grounded in fostering meaningful connection, purpose, and trauma-informed approaches. I am committed to supporting healing and creating lasting, positive change by equipping individuals, teams, and communities with practical tools and perspectives that encourage safer, more inclusive spaces.
What is Cultivating Safe Spaces (CSS)?
The CSS framework offers tools and insights to support meaningful relationship-building and reconciliation. This training provides practical knowledge and approaches to strengthen your ongoing commitment to working respectfully and effectively with others. By reflecting on our perspectives, deepening self-awareness, and supporting personal and collective healing, we contribute to more inclusive and supportive communities.
CSS training plays an essential role in supporting meaningful change and positively influencing those around you. The training experience can have a significant impact on how you communicate, respond, and manage relationships within your work environment, professional network, and personal life. It will also equip you with practical tools and language to help cultivate safe, respectful spaces for your teams, clients, and partners.
Creativity / Community Reconciliation / Education / Leadership / Mental Health and Well-Being / Operations/ Storytelling / Systems Innovation
CSS Training includes:
Four Necessary Conditions for Cultivating Safe Spaces – Understanding Self, Love-Based Practice, Patience, and Discipline. Promotion of the Four Protocols for Cultivating Safe Spaces – Well-being, Inclusion, Freedom, and Validation (and why they matter). Exploring the Four Perspectives – Tradition, Relationship, Innovation, Action. Understanding Vicarious Trauma.
The CSS Framework in the workplace is essential for everyone’s well-being. When people feel a sense of belonging, they are more engaged, satisfied, and able to communicate openly, leading to stronger collaboration and problem-solving. This approach supports diversity and inclusion by making space for all voices and challenging systems of power and privilege. It also fosters creativity, innovation, and better decision-making. Most importantly, it encourages kindness and empathy, allowing individuals to express themselves without fear and building a more supportive, respectful work environment. Cultivating Safe Spaces training benefits individuals, teams, and organizations by creating healthier, more inclusive workplaces and providing tools that extend into all areas of life.
For training inquiries and rates, please email me for more information.
Emily is a welcoming and warm facilitator who has taken the time to ensure she has provided the most inclusive space both physically and emotionally for those who attend. She is well educated, open and honest. The session was empowering and provided a basis of what is needed to begin the process of reconciliation within cultural contexts and within individual families. It was a pleasure to hear the voices of others and their experiences and how they are moving forward to make differences within their communities.
~ Cultivating Safe Spaces Full-Day Training Participant
I really appreciated how Emily brought up reconciliation and how it has affected everyone. Ways it may have impacted various cultural groups and how to move forward with gaining our own understanding of what reconciliation looks like on an individual and how to help on a more global perspective.
~ “Introduction to Cultivating Safe Spaces” Training Participant
Emily created a very warm, open and inviting space to be able to share one’s experience. I wasn’t too sure what to expect going in and was unprepared to delve as deep as the session was going at first. Once I was able to get a sense for what the session was about, I felt completely welcomed and safe to share what I had discovered about myself.
~ Public “Introduction to Cultivating Safe Spaces” Workshop Participant
