In this episode of the Go Smudge Yourself Podcast, Jen Green presents the Four Conditions of Cultivating Safe Spaces from the CSS Podcast: Understanding Self, Love-Based Practices, Patience and Discipline. She discusses the Four Conditions, expands on the Love-Based Practices and gives examples of how these Conditions are affirmed and implemented. Jen also touches on Nested Systems and how the Conditions fall within a Nested System.

In this episode of the Cultivating Safe Spaces Podcast, Jen Green and Lisa Dutchak discuss how they met Elaine Alec, found Cultivating Safe Spaces and became facilitators. They talk about Perspectives and which demographic Lisa plans to facilitate for through her consulting company, Lisa Dutchak Consulting. Listeners will also hear conversations surrounding allyship and decolonizing the way we move through the world.

In this episode of the Cultivating Safe Spaces Podcast, Jen gives an overview of the Four Protocols of Cultivating Safe Spaces. These protocols are a crucial part of working from a position of love and of working in love-based practices. Listeners will learn not only each of the Four protocols of CSS but also the corresponding fear-based colonial practice that they counter.

In this episode of the Cultivating Safe Spaces Podcast, Jen discusses how perfectionism is a colonial tool that upholds White supremacy and how perfectionism shows up in our behaviours and thought patterns. She also explains how perfectionism differs from excellence and teaches listeners how to cultivate their own standard of excellence.

In this episode of the Cultivating Safe Spaces Podcast, Jen explains the WHY we need to cultivate safe spaces. Often times we might question if changing the way we do things is even really necessary, so in this episode, we discuss who most spaces are currently made safe for as a default, what a safe space actually is and what some of the benefits of cultivating safe spaces are.

“We can be so much more if we respect the way that we each work and think, and the gifts that we carry. These gifts weren’t placed opposite on the wheel for nothing. We balance each other out.”