Achieving psychological safety is hard. It requires time and effort in building a lot of trust.

What if there was a way to accelerate the process?
What if there was a very simple tool that we can adopt that makes even the more introvert people feel comfortable opening up?

What if we had already known about that tool and have just forgotten how powerful it is?

That tool is Metaphors, an extremely powerful sorcery lost in time.

Yes, because as children we grow up learning through stories that are metaphors for topics that may be too difficult for our younger minds to digest.

As adults we hide hard truth behind stories that seem apt to children and instead speak deep truth.

A wolf, a wooden puppet, an animal farm.

In this workshop we’ll aim to rediscover the power of metaphors as a way to create an environment where it’s psychologically safe to share stories, facts, feeling that otherwise it would normally be hard to share.

We’ll try a series of exercises operating at different level to learn techniques to have conversations that feel safe for the people involved. We’ll draw symbols, we’ll build ducks with Lego, we’ll impersonate objects, we’ll become objects.

We’ll project our thoughts into metaphors. Safely.

About the speaker:

Francesco is a Collaboration Alchemist on a mission to make the world of work more fun. His current focus is on building learning experiences in a safe and inclusive environment by leveraging all of the cutting-edge techniques for Visual Thinking, Brain-Science based learning and Facilitation for highly collaborative meetings to ensure people are and feel at the center.