6 Keys to Emotional Safety

1) Fixing & Rescuing

2) Asserting & Interrupting

3) Proving & Pleasing

4) Assumptions & Conclusions

5) Reactions and taking things personally

6) Pity and sympathy mistaken as empathy

We are present, attentive and detached yet engaged.

Caring without care-taking.

Listening, curious, silent, still, relaxed, receptive and available.

Empathy is free of assumptions.

So rather than assume something’s hard, we can ask, “What’s that like for you?”

Rather than jump to make things better by offering a positive spin or explaining why someone doesn’t have to feel the way they feel…

We can offer presence and curiosity.

This is what creates emotional safety:

An open energy that offers people an opportunity to express, explore and feel whatever is arising without needing to change.