I had the privilege of being invited to talk about psychological safety at SAST Q4 this year. I was expecting a cosy room with 20-ish people but due to high level of interest we had to use the big room for the 50+ people coming to listen. It was wonderful surprise though, this is such an important topic.
I was honoured by being voted as one of the community talks for Agile Testing Days 2018. My talk Mind the Gap was about how we can improve our ability to act rather than react. Based on Virginia Satir’s model ‘ingredients of an interaction’, I gave some tips on how to exploit the time between stimulus and response to make more conscious choices in life.
11th of October was premiere for the training in Psychological Safety that I created together with Gitte Klitgaard. It was a full day workshop in conjunction with Brewing Agile in Gothenburg. Let us know if you’re interested in attending an open training or would like us to run it at your company, we’d love to do it again.
The training is based on tools and methods developed by pioneering family therapist Virginia Satir and is aimed at helping you as a leader to interact with the people around you more congruently. You will learn techniques for becoming more centered in yourself before interacting with others, to connect more deeply with other people and to stay relevant in the current context. You will also learn about ‘coping stances’ that interfere with authentic communication and how to replace them with more effective and empowering alternatives.
Being a congruent leader means that you will experience an enhanced ability to create new options and act on them in difficult situations while balancing your own needs with the needs of people around you.