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Half Day | Max. 12 Participants
Workshop Outcomes
- Develop a clear, evidence-based understanding of psychological safety and its direct relationship to team performance, wellbeing, and psychosocial risk management obligations
- Build self-awareness of how personal stress responses, nervous system states, and communication patterns shape the psychological safety of the team environment
- Demonstrate a repertoire of practical leadership strategies for building, sustaining, and repairing psychological safety across diverse team contexts and challenging workplace situations
Topics Covered
- Psychological safety, neuroscience, and leadership — how the brain's threat detection system operates in team environments and why leader behaviour is the single greatest influence on team psychological safety
- The regulated leader — understanding how a leader's own nervous system state and stress responses directly affect team dynamics, and developing somatic awareness as a leadership tool
- Building psychological safety in practice — evidence-based strategies for everyday leadership conversations, responding to conflict and mistakes, and embedding safety as a sustained team culture
Location
- Willing to work remote
- Willing to work interstate
How can this workshop be delivered?
- Face to Face
- Virtual
Overview
Psychological safety is not a soft concept — it is a measurable team condition with direct links to productivity, retention, innovation, and wellbeing. It is also an emerging compliance consideration under Australian psychosocial safety legislation, making it an area of genuine organisational risk when absent.
This half-day workshop equips managers and team leaders with the knowledge, self-awareness, and practical skills to actively cultivate psychological safety within their teams. Drawing on neuroscience, behavioural science, and somatic awareness, participants develop insight into how their own nervous system states influence their leadership presence — and how to regulate these in service of their team. Suitable for people leaders at any level in general office-based settings, this workshop complements psychosocial risk management, leadership development, and cultural change programs. Structured around guided practice, reflection, and peer discussion, it builds durable leadership capability rather than surface-level awareness.
Workshop Outcomes
- Develop a clear, evidence-based understanding of psychological safety and its direct relationship to team performance, wellbeing, and psychosocial risk management obligations
- Build self-awareness of how personal stress responses, nervous system states, and communication patterns shape the psychological safety of the team environment
- Demonstrate a repertoire of practical leadership strategies for building, sustaining, and repairing psychological safety across diverse team contexts and challenging workplace situations
Topics Covered
- Psychological safety, neuroscience, and leadership — how the brain's threat detection system operates in team environments and why leader behaviour is the single greatest influence on team psychological safety
- The regulated leader — understanding how a leader's own nervous system state and stress responses directly affect team dynamics, and developing somatic awareness as a leadership tool
- Building psychological safety in practice — evidence-based strategies for everyday leadership conversations, responding to conflict and mistakes, and embedding safety as a sustained team culture
Who is this workshop for
Designed for managers and people leaders at any level who want to develop the self-awareness and practical skills to actively cultivate psychological safety within their teams. Particularly suited to organisations where psychosocial safety compliance, cultural change, or leadership capability are current priorities. Best delivered as a companion to Safe to Speak — the all-employee equivalent.
Handouts/materials provided
Each participant receives a professionally designed PDF handout created specifically to accompany this session. It includes key reference content from the workshop, self-assessment tools for identifying personal patterns and priorities, and a structured planning template for applying what they've learned. The handout is designed to be used during the session and kept as a practical resource afterwards.
What to bring
Just yourself and a willingness to reflect. All workshop materials, including your participant handout, are provided on the day. No prior knowledge or preparation is required.
Facilitator
About the facilitator
Caroline Crosbie works at the intersection of neuroscience, performance, and workplace wellbeing — helping individuals and teams in demanding environments perform sustainably, regulate effectively, and work together well.
With over 30 years of experience and a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Ireland, Caroline brings a rigorous evidence base to everything she delivers. Her work draws on sleep science, nervous system regulation, and the psychology of team dynamics — translated into practical tools that work in real workplaces, not just training rooms.
She works primarily with leaders, managers, and teams in government and professional services — environments where the pressure to perform is high, the margin for error is low, and the human cost of getting it wrong compounds quietly over time.
Caroline's programmes are part of the Sustainable Performance Series — a suite of evidence-based workshops designed for organisations that take performance seriously and understand that sustaining it requires more than resilience training.
Key Expertise
- Psychological safety and team effectiveness
- Stress, anxiety and nervous system regulation
- Sleep science and work performance
- Burnout prevention and sustainable performance
- Emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness
Industry Focus
- Government and public sector
- Local government
- Health and community services
- Professional services
- Mining and resources
Based in:
About the facilitator
Caroline Crosbie works at the intersection of neuroscience, performance, and workplace wellbeing — helping individuals and teams in demanding environments perform sustainably, regulate effectively, and work together well.
With over 30 years of experience and a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Ireland, Caroline brings a rigorous evidence base to everything she delivers. Her work draws on sleep science, nervous system regulation, and the psychology of team dynamics — translated into practical tools that work in real workplaces, not just training rooms.
She works primarily with leaders, managers, and teams in government and professional services — environments where the pressure to perform is high, the margin for error is low, and the human cost of getting it wrong compounds quietly over time.
Caroline's programmes are part of the Sustainable Performance Series — a suite of evidence-based workshops designed for organisations that take performance seriously and understand that sustaining it requires more than resilience training.
Key Expertise
- Psychological safety and team effectiveness
- Stress, anxiety and nervous system regulation
- Sleep science and work performance
- Burnout prevention and sustainable performance
- Emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness
Industry Focus
- Government and public sector
- Local government
- Health and community services
- Professional services
- Mining and resources
Based in:
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