cultivating safe spaces
To change the world by providing a framework that supports the well-being of all humans by promoting belonging, connection, and safety. Our vision is to reach one billion people across the world by certifying one million people to teach the framework in all sectors, spaces, and languages.”
What Is cultivating Safe spaces?
Cultivating Safe Spaces (CSS) was developed in 2019 by Elaine Alec and she hosted her first workshop February 2020. Since then she has delivered this training and presentation to over 300 groups and over 10,000 people worldwide.
The framework includes 3 areas of understanding to support cultivating safe spaces: the four necessary conditions for cultivating safe spaces, the four protocols for cultivating safe spaces, and understanding the four perspectives for cultivating safe spaces.
We receive daily requests to deliver this training to groups and organizations across the world. Workshops and learning experiences have been delivered to front line workers, community members and first responders to elected leadership, executive leadership, doctors, lawyers and negotiators and policy makers.
This training is in high demand, and as a result, Elaine has developed a Cultivating Safe Spaces Train the Trainer program and we now have 95 Certified Cultivating Safe Spaces Facilitators who deliver this workshop and learning experience.
Cultivating Safe Spaces is a worldview shifting framework that was developed to empower individuals who may be struggling to understand what decolonization and reconciliation looks like.
Since then CSS has developed into much more than that. It is much more than diversity, inclusion, cultural safety and employee wellness. It is a framework that supports systems change and shifts in policy, process, agenda development and encourages participants to work from their best selves by centring well-being to promote effectiveness and productivity.
This training takes participants from a place of insecurity and overwhelm to a state of focus and empowerment and enhances their ability to communicate effectively and make valuable contributions to the ongoing transformation of systems.
TYPES OF CULTIVATING SAFE SPACES OFFERINGS
45-90 minute presentations provides an overview of the Cultivating Safe Spaces framework.
3 - 4 hour CSS Trainings and Workshops provide opportunities for participants to learn more about each piece of the framework.
5-6 hour CSS Trainings and Workshops provide opportunities for participants to learn more about each piece of the framework and interact with each other through breakout opportunities to discuss implementation of the CSS framework.
Cultivating Safe Spaces Conference brings together 200 people from across North America who are actively working to shift systems to support well-being. Our next CSS Conference will be held May 16th and 17th in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Visit our conference website for more information. We also offer a limited 1-day Train the Trainer on May 18th. Visit our Train the Trainer page to learn more.
Calling My Spirit Back Retreat is for individuals who want to incorporate the CSS Framework into their own personal healing and well-being and who want to challenge themselves to incorporate the framework into their daily lives and practice. (The retreat is full for 2024)
Intro to Cultivating Safe Spaces
We have updated our “Intro to Cultivating Safe Spaces” which will be priced at a special introductory offer of $100 until June 1st.
PRIVATE TRAININGS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION OR GROUP
- Visit our CSS Facilitators or Contact Page.
We have a wonderful team of Certified Cultivating Safe Spaces Facilitators who specialize in various areas, from corporate to educational institutions and governments, youth workers, health teams, teachers, law enforcement and community groups.
PUBLIC OFFERINGS FOR INDIVIDUALS
Each of our CSS Facilitators hosts public workshops, presentations and learning experiences through virtual and in person offerings. Seat prices range from free to $750 per person.
TRAIN THE TRAINER
Once you have experienced the effectiveness of the Cultivating Safe Spaces tools, you’ll want to share it with everyone. Elaine has developed a “Train the Trainer” course, delivered four times a year, to certify Cultivating Safe Spaces facilitators. She shares everything from her hundreds of hours of work and $20,000 worth of resources and research, to her business model and templates. What Elaine is trying to say is, “You can do this too, and I will share everything I’ve learned with you.”
A message from Elaine
wáy x̌ast sx̌əlx̌ʕált My name is telxnitkw, it translates into “Standing by Water” I am Syilx and Secwepemc and have roots with the Colville and Nez Perce nations.
In my best-selling book, Calling My Spirit Back, I touch on the four necessary conditions and protocols to transform our lives into ones of self-awareness, love-based practice, patience and discipline. It is these teachings and tools that guide me and have helped me overcome adversity, to build successful businesses, regain overall health and well-being, and bring pure love into my life.
I went from a completely burnt-out businesswoman and helper who struggled with boundaries and exhaustion to a confident and empowered facilitator who teaches others how to cultivate safe spaces for themselves and others in their personal and professional lives.
This training has helped people struggling to understand what decolonizing and reconciliation looks like in practice go from insecure and overwhelmed to being focused and empowered so they are able communicate and contribute effectively to transforming systems.
I receive requests every day to deliver this training and I cannot keep up with the requests and so I developed a Cultivating Safe Spaces Train the Trainer.
People come to Cultivating Safe Spaces Workshops for a multitude of reasons that may include:
● I want the skills needed to create nurturing spaces that promote diversity and inclusion, fostering a positive environment for everyone involved.
● I'm interested in learning effective techniques to support my teams in overcoming burnout and managing the stresses that accumulate over time.
● I'm committed to understanding how to decolonize my work processes, policies, and approaches, aligning them with more inclusive and equitable principles.
● I want to build a thriving business guided by a heart-centered approach, combining success with compassion.
● I'm determined to enhance my self-confidence and move beyond the barriers that have been limiting my ability to fully engage in the impactful work I know I'm capable of.
● I'm eager to understand and actively contribute to reconciliation efforts, even though I currently lack a clear starting point.
