When I’m not at work I’m involved in a local church, and the role I have means that recently I had to refresh my safeguarding training. The first instalment of the training is called ‘Creating Safer Spaces’, which included awareness of how the physical spaces that we occupy can influence safe behaviour.
A few days later, I’m back in the office and my mind wanders to the question, what does “safe space” mean here?
What we have created is a space that for many will be far removed from “Business As Usual”. A place where different things can happen. In the (attributed) words of Albert Einstein, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” But doing things differently can be difficult when we are in our usual place.
So away from ‘normal’ life, with ‘normal’ expectations, we have found that Like Work But Different provides:
- an environment where you are safe to think outside the box.
- a space where you are safe to be creative.
- a safe place for difficult questions to be asked and where radical solutions can be proposed.
It might seem a bit ‘out there’ and strange, but this safe place could be where your next big idea is waiting…