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Psychological Safety Accreditation

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Are you a leader, corporate trainer, independent or in-house coach looking to differentiate your practice with a unique, scientifically credible offering to help improve lives, workplaces and well-being? 

Are you interested in being at the forefront of two rapidly emerging fields gaining corporate attention and traction – psychological safety and brain-based leadership? 

Are you looking to add to your coach or toolkit and access a new revenue stream to adapt and thrive in an ever-evolving market?

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The S.A.F.E.T.Y™ Accreditation Program

Be at the frontier of human development with neuroscience-based training, skills and tools to support the people, groups and organizations you work with.

Using the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Assessment and Toolkit to help people gain insight into their psychological safety needs and the strategies to nurture their well-being for improved lives, health, performance and relationships, this 8-week virtual accreditation equips you to conduct personal S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Assessment debrief sessions.
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Benefits of getting S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Accredited for you and your clients

What You Get
Additional Benefits
What Your Clients Get
How Your Clients Benefit
What You Get

What you get:

  • Online learning portal and resources
  • Peer and faculty learning forums
  • 3 x S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Assessment Practice Codes
  • Psychological Safety Book and S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Reference Guide
  • Live debrief assessment with an assessor
  • Awards 28 ICF Continuing Coach Education + 12 Resource Development Credits
  • First year’s membership to the Alumni Network (value USD299)
  • Qualify to enrol in S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Team Accreditation (Stage 2)
Additional Benefits

Additional benefits for you:

  • Use of the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Accredited logo & Licensed IP
  • Listed on ABL’s Accredited Facilitator webpage
  • Access to purchase Participant S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Toolkits
  • Alumni online forum, resources and support
  • Quarterly live webinars for ongoing learning and updates
  • Discounts on Assessment codes and pre-work e-modules
What Your Clients Get

What your clients get:

  • Increased awareness and skills to:

  • Nurture their psychological safety and wellbeing
  • Mitigate their biases to improve decision making
  • Manage their triggers and stress for improved health
  • Communicate their needs to deepen relationships
  • Embed new habits and behaviors to improve overall effectiveness
How Your Clients Benefit

How your clients benefit:

  • Greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence
  • Improvement in mental and physical health and wellbeing
  • More positive exchanges, collaboration and better conflict resolution
  • Enhanced focus, motivation and productivity
  • Deeper and more connected relationships
  • Improved happiness, satisfaction and performance
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This webinar provides an introduction to the opportunity and pathway  for coaches, consultants, leaders and trainers to set themselves apart with a psychological safety accreditation. 

Learn about the brain-based approach to psychological safety, the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Model and the neuroscience-based training, skills and tools you will use to support the people and organizations you work with.
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Some of the organizations utilising the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Model to build safe, inclusive & resilient workplaces

Why Psychological Safety Matters

Much, if not all of our motivation and behavior is driven by our brain’s nonconscious need to feel safe. When our brain is triggered into a threat state our cognitive functioning is compromised increasing our susceptibility to emotional, impulsive, irrational thinking and behavior that decreases our ability to think and perform.


The S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Model describes six domains of threat or reward that are important to the brain: Security, Autonomy, Fairness, Esteem, Trust and You. Understanding the needs, rewards, motivations, biases and stress triggers of each domain can provide valuable insights into yourself and others and help improve interactions, teamwork and productivity.


Become equipped to teach our model and debrief S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ profile reports to help individuals and teams understand:

  • Their brain’s threat and reward sensitivities
  • How they derive their sense of psychological safety
  • The nonconscious biases driving their decisions and behavior
  • Their potential stress triggers and how to manage them
  • How to enhance their motivation and engagement
  • How their behaviors may be perceived by others
  • The potential impact of their profile on themselves and others

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"Google’s Project Aristotle revealed the most agile and high-performing teams were those with a high sense of Psychological Safety."

S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Accreditation Modules

Module 1: Orientation & The Learning Brain

Accreditation Purpose:

To equip facilitators to effectively explain and debrief the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ assessment and to help their coachee become brain-conscious and self-aware

Accreditation Learning Objectives:

At the end of the accreditation process you will be able to:

  • Explain Psychological safety and the research
  • Explain the brain fundamentals that influence our psychological safety
  • Explain the nonconscious triggers that drive behavior (S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ model)
  • Explain the attributes of high and low domain scores
  • Explain the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ profile report and the impact of the scores
  • The top down (N.E.T.S.™) and bottom up (T.R.A.I.N.™) approaches to managing triggers
  • Debrief the report in order to generate self awareness and insights
  • Have a next steps action plan for how to embed and use this new learning

Debrief Learning Objectives:

At the end of the debrief the coachee will understand:

  • The importance of psychological safety
  • The fundamentals of the brain
  • The nonconscious drivers of behavior
  • Their S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ profile and scores
  • How they derive their psychological safety
  • The attributes of their S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ profile and their impact on themselves and others
  • Strategies to manage S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ triggers
Module 2: Psychological Safety Fundamentals

This module equips you to:

  • Introduce the debrief and psychological safety
  • Explain the brain fundamentals and the critical role of the nonconscious and biases
  • Explain the brain’s need for safety and the impact of threat

Effective delivery will help your coachee: 

  • Understand the importance of Psychological Safety and its impact on behavior and performance
  • Understand the basic brain fundamentals, the brain’s need for safety, and the impact of when it is under threat
  • Understand the critical role of the nonconscious drivers
Module 3: S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Model & Assessment

This module equips you to:

  • Explain the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ model as the triggers/biases that impact psychological safety
  • Explain the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ model and its 6 domains
  • Explain the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ report structure

Effective delivery will help your coachee:

  • Understand the connection between psychological safety and the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Model
  • Understand the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Model and its 6 domains
  • Understand their S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ profile report
Module 4: S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Domain Attributes

This module equips you to:

  • Understand and explain the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Report results and their impacts
  • Explain the experiences, triggers, strengths, challenges, language of each domain
  • Explain how to protect and nurture psychological safety of various profiles

Effective delivery will help your coachee:

  • Understand their S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Report results and impacts
  • Understand their potential triggers, strengths, challenges
  • Understand how their sensitivities may be impacting themselves and others
  • Understand what they need to protect their psychological safety
Module 5: Top Down Trigger Management

This module equips you to:

  • Explain the two approaches to managing psychological safety
  • Explain the impact of stress on the brain and the importance of building a strong PFC and braking system
  • Explain the Safety N.E.T.S.™ model and the role of Nutrition, Exercise, Training and Sleep in building a strong resilient brain

Effective delivery will help your coachee:

  • Understand the detrimental impact of stress on our physical and psychological safety
  • Understand the different approaches to stress and trigger management
  • Understand the tools to build their brain resilience through nutrition, exercise, training and sleep
Module 6: Bottom Up Trigger Management

This module equips you to:

  • Explain the bottom up approach to managing psychological safety
  • Explain the T.R.A.I.N.™ model as a process to manage triggers

Effective delivery will help your coachee:

  • Become aware of their nonconscious ‘triggers’
  • Understand the benefits of labelling rather than suppressing their emotions
  • Critically reflect on their biases and perspectives
  • Understand reappraisal and perspective taking
  • Identify and communicate their psychological safety needs
Module 7: The Debrief Conversation

This module equips you to:

  • Understand the types of conversations and your role in the debrief
  • Understand an effective conversation process
  • Cater to the brain and its safety throughout the debrief process
  • Understand the conversation skills, hints and tips of a safe conversation

Effective delivery will help your coachee:

  • Feel psychologically safe and supported
  • Think and generate insights
  • Open up and engage in dialogue
  • Reach a deeper level of self-awareness
Module 8: Conducting the Debrief

This module equips you to:

  • Consolidate the learnings from Module 1-7
  • Model the format and flow of the debrief
  • Explain the use of scripts and visual aids throughout the debrief
  • Highlight the resources and references used throughout the debrief

Your skill in conducting a successful debrief will help your coachee:

  • Understand the importance of psychological safety
  • Understand the fundamentals of the brain
  • Understand the nonconscious drivers of behavior
  • Understand their S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ profile and scores
  • Learn how they derive their psychological safety
  • Understand the attributes of their S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ profile and their impact on themselves and others
  • Learn strategies to manage S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ triggers
  • Reflect and generate insights about their profile
  • Set intentions and create actionable next steps in light of their learnings
  • Feel psychologically safe and supported
  • Open up and engage in dialogue
  • Reach a deeper level of self-awareness
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Your Commitment

Weekly Commitment
Engagement Commitment
Weekly Commitment

Weekly Commitment:

The following times are averages only, some weeks require 4-5 hours, others 2-3 hours. Average 3-4 hour weekly commitment to complete:

  • Recorded webinar (30-60 mins)
  • Readings, activities and resources (10 mins)
  • Online knowledge quiz (10 mins)
  • Content review & practice (30 mins)
  • Delivery practice & feedback (60 mins)
  • Peer engagement and activities (10 mins)
  • Weekly live Q&A webinar with instructors (30 mins)
  • Final assessment: Observed 90-minute live-virtual debrief
Engagement Commitment

Engagement Commitment:

To achieve and maintain your accreditation status learners are required to:

  • Sign and adhere to the Service & Licensing Agreement terms
  • Complete all program activities
  • Successfully conduct a live debrief (assessor observed)
  • Maintain annual alumni membership (USD299)

What to expect on the 8-week journey

Research based content

Access to the experts

Debrief skills, tools & guides

Blended online learning

Peer learning & practice

Accreditation status

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Meer Your Trainers

Dr Dan Radecki PhD, MA

CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER

Dr Dan Radecki is Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at The Academy of Brain-based Leadership (ABL) and co-author of the book “Psychological Safety: The key to happy, high-performing people and teams”. He also serves as Executive Director of CNS Research and Development at AbbVie Inc and holds a Bachelors in Psychology, Masters in Biopsychology and PhD in Neuroscience.


Working as a leader in the corporate world allows Dan the unique perspective on how our knowledge of brain functioning can aid leaders in maximizing their results as well as the results of their teams. 

Leonie Hull

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Leonie is Co-founder and CEO of the Academy of Brain-based Leadership and has over 20 years’ experience in management and consulting, predominantly in values-based organizations.


Leonie co-authored the book “Psychological Safety: The key to happy, high-performing people and teams”. She has been instrumental in the design, development and implementation of the learning and accreditation pathways for building psychological safety at an individual, relationship, team and organizational level.

Psychological Safety: The key to happy, high-performing people and teams

By Dr Dan Radecki PhD, MA and Leonie Hull. 

Co-Founders of the Academy of Brain-based Leadership.

Dr Dan Radecki at TEDx

About the Academy of Brain-based Leadership

Since 2008 cofounders Leonie Hull and neuroscientist Dr Dan Radecki have been at the forefront of interpreting and applying neuroscience research to the workplace, and creating and teaching brain-based leadership programs.

In 2015 they launched The Academy of Brain-based Leadership to help organizations build psychologically safe, inclusive cultures where all people are empowered to be themselves, believe their contribution is valued and that their needs matter.

​​Upcoming Intake Dates & Pricing

May 6, 2024

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USD$2,495

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Our Guarantee

We stand behind the quality and effectiveness of the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Accreditation Program. If, after completing the program, you do not feel adequately equipped with the knowledge and skills outlined here, we will offer you a full refund, no questions asked. Your satisfaction and success are our top priorities, and we are committed to ensuring that you receive exceptional value from our program.

FAQ'S

Is there a way to learn more about the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Accreditation Program?

Yes! You can speak to one of our team, or watch our on demand webinar about Teaching Psychological Safety by clicking one of the buttons below. 

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How will completing the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Accreditation Program benefit me as a coach, corporate trainer or leader?

Getting accredited will not only equip you with comprehensive knowledge and practical skills in psychological safety and brain-based leadership, it will also give you a credible science-backed tool to use with your clients to generate greater self-awareness and insight. 


This expertise will enable you to effectively support individuals and organizations in fostering inclusive cultures, enhancing team dynamics, and driving sustainable performance improvements. Additionally, accreditation through our program will elevate your credibility and differentiate you in the market, positioning you as a trusted authority and thought leader in these rapidly emerging fields.


You also get:

  • Use of the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Accredited logo & Licensed IP
  • Listed on ABL’s Accredited Facilitator webpage
  • Access to purchase Participant S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Toolkits
  • Alumni online forum, resources and support
  • Quarterly live webinars for ongoing learning and updates
  • Discounts on Assessment codes and pre-work e-modules
How will my clients or coachees benefit?
Transform lives & workplaces with awareness & skills to help others:

• Understand & nurture their psychological safety and wellbeing
• Mitigate their biases to improve decision making & inclusion
• Manage their triggers and stress for improved focus & health
• Be emotionally intelligent in relationships, collaboration & conflict
• Embed habits to improve health, engagement & performance
What sets the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Assessment apart from other assessment tools in the market?

The S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Assessment is not a personality sorter, an indicator of your personality style or a test for any of the widely used personality dimensions. The S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Assessment provides an outline of how your brain is motivated in your current context, thus suggesting how quickly or easily you may be triggered by each domain. No one domain is better than another, there is no wrong or right answer. Every

one of us is motivated by all five of the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ domains. We all seek Security, Autonomy, Fairness, Esteem, and Trust in our lives, and we have all been, and will continue to be, triggered by each domain to some degree.

 

With a focus on wellness and psychological safety, the tool has been carefully conceived and empirically designed based on neuroscience research to provide critical data and insights to increase self-awareness of our biases and triggers, and to gain an appreciation of the impact of our profiles on others. This can help us manage our own psychological safety, as well the psychological safety of those around us.

 

The S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Assessment is designed to provide data and insights important for individuals and teams to consider as they think about managing stress, enhancing performance and collaboration and building psychological safety. It is not designed for recruitment and selection of individuals into particular jobs.

Is there ongoing support or resources available to participants after completing the program?
You'll get the following tools to support the one-on-one debrief to support learning and build self-awareness with your coachees:

• S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Assessment Profile Report
• S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Reference Guide (exclusive to accredited alumni)
• Psychological Safety Book

Accreditation registration also includes your 1st year’s alumni membership (value USD299) with the following benefits upon successful completion of the program:

• Use of the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Accredited logo & Licensed IP
• Listed on ABL’s Accredited Facilitator webpage
• Access to purchase Participant S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Toolkits
• Alumni online forum, resources and support
• Quarterly live webinars for ongoing learning and updates
• Discounts on Assessment codes and pre-work e-modules
Are there any prerequisites or qualifications required to enroll in the program?

Whilst anybody can join, we find that participants with professional coaching and/or facilitation experience, or those who use coaching in their leadership style tend to engage more effectively with the learning material and integrate it into their professional practice.

How long does it take to complete the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Accreditation Program and what’s the time commitment each week?

The course runs for 8 weeks and includes a blend of online classes, peer learning & practice and self-paced study.

The average time commitment each week is approximately 3-4 hours, however some weeks require up to 5 hours. This includes:

  • Recorded webinar (30-60 mins)
  • Readings, activities and resources (10 mins)
  • Online knowledge quiz (10 mins)
  • Content review & practice (30 mins)
  • Delivery practice & feedback (60 mins)
  • Peer engagement and activities (10 mins)
  • Weekly live Q&A webinar with instructors (30 mins)
  • Final assessment: Observed 90-minute live-virtual debrief
What times do the online classes run?

The online classes run on Thursdays at 5 pm and Fridays at 7 am US Pacific Time each week. You can choose to attend either class, or both if you like. For conversion times see the intake page of the course you are interested in attending. 

What's included in the program?

• Online learning portal and resources
• Peer learning activities and forums
• Weekly Q&A with the experts
• 3 x S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Codes
• Psychological Safety Book & S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Reference Guide

• Live debrief assessment with an assessor
• 28 ICF CCEs + 12 Resource Development Credits
• Qualify to enrol in S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ Team Accreditation Program (Stage 2)

I'm already a coach. Can I earn ICF Continuing Coach Education Credits by completing this program?

Yes! This course entitles you to 28 Continuing Coach Education Credits and 12 Resource Development Credits. 

How much does the program cost and what payment options are available?

The course costs USD$2,495 which can be paid by credit card or wire transfer. There are no payment plans available. 

How do I get started enrolling in the program?

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