Key details
- Duration: 4.5 hours
- Delivery: In person
- Cost: Fully subsidised for eligible individuals
This interactive workshop explores a holistic approach to psychological safety and its role in wellbeing, learning, and effective teamwork.
Together, through discussion, reflection and practical activities, participants will explore what psychological safety looks like in practice across both workplace and learning environments.
The workshop encourages participants to consider how individual behaviours, workplace practices and organisational processes can either support or create barriers to participation, wellbeing and learning.
Participants will build a shared understanding of what psychological safety looks like in practice and how each of us can act as custodians of meaningful, sustainable culture change.
This session aligns with the Skills SA Student Support Standards and supports the principles of providing safe, inclusive and supportive learning environments where students and apprentices/trainees can participate, learn and succeed.
This workshop is for people working in Adult Community Education (ACE) providers and Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) with a Funded Activities Agreement with Skills SA.
- Define psychological safety and understand its significance for supportive learning environments within contemporary Australian work health and safety expectations.
- Recognise behaviours, systems and workplace or training conditions that may support or undermine psychological safety.
- Identify potential barriers to participation, engagement and learning for people experiencing mental health challenges.
- Apply practical strategies to foster trust, respectful communication, inclusion and appropriate challenge.
- Understand the shared responsibilities of employees, students, apprentices and trainees in contributing to safe, respectful and inclusive workplace and learning cultures.
- Recognise how individual actions and organisational practices can contribute to positive wellbeing, participation and learning outcomes.
- Understand how the workshop supports the principles of the Skills SA Student Support Standards including the importance of safe, inclusive and supportive environments for students, apprentices and trainees.
Certificate of attendance
Lunch
Donny Deane, Inclusion and Diversity Advisor, Sonder
Donny is a professional facilitator with a passion for creating inclusive learning spaces that are grounded in psychological safety.
With over five years of experience across community and vocational services, Donny provides a unique perspective to the complex concept of psychological safety. Moving beyond a “tick-box” or purely clinical approach, Donny explores how psychological safety truly looks and feels in day-to-day environments, relationships, and teams.
Donny supports learners and teams discover their own learning styles by encouraging genuine participation, creating space for different perspectives, and celebrating individual strengths.