SAFE 2B in Six Weeks

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no intention of doing

Tracing the trajectory of my life, two things stand out:

1. Since childhood, I've really enjoyed understanding 'how things work'.
2. I've been driven by a pressing need to escape the debilitating impacts of multi-generational cycles of trauma and family dysfunction.

Let's start with #1: Over the years, I developed an aptitude for disassembling bicycles, engines, kitchen equipment, and other objects to reveal and reverse-engineer the relationships between components I discovered inside. This led me to a diploma in mechanical engineering and an impressive ability to read a machine the way people read a book.

#2 starts here: Many of the lessons that I've learned about mechanical systems also apply to human relationships, and it's thanks to this that I've succeeded in breaking the cycles of pain that have plagued my family for generations.  What I discovered could benefit your organization or community enormously.

Have you ever wondered where the 'instructions' are coming from that determine whether or not you smile or say hello to one stranger in the room when you're strenuously avoiding eye contact with a different stranger?

If, for example,  you're with a friend, where's your friend getting their instructions from, and why are their internal instructions different from yours? Why are they eliciting different responses from responses that you get?

It's helpful for me to answer questions like this because people are always doing and saying things without planning to do or say them. In fact, most people open their eyes at day's break with little intention of doing or saying half the things they say and do. That's interesting to me. 

Here's what I discovered:

No matter how nice or kind we wish to be, some of the things we do generate interpersonal friction while others are a response to friction.

Our hands may be on the proverbial steering wheel, but the car is not being consciously directed by us and it keeps hitting into things.

The more we can learn about the instructions coming from within us and our co-workers, the more power we have to reduce or eliminate the friction impacting productivity and preventing connection.

We can choose to keep things the same, or we can evolve as an organization or a community.

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enriching relationship

Over the years, my quest to reveal answers succeeded, but these answers were never just "Blowing in the Wind", as Dylan had suggested.

Knowing is dominated by cerebral activity.

Synapses in a person's brain might be overflowing with information, but  how these synapses have intentionally been wired that determines whether a person constantly generates and encounters friction, or instead, nurtures harmonious and enriching relationship with every encounter.

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What's in it for the student

Graduates of this SAFE 2B course:

• Business owners committed to social sustainability and the emotional wellbeing of their staff
• HR Professionals
• Mediators, ADR practitioners, Investigators, other Conflict Resolution Professionals
• Group facilitators and educators responsible for structuring mental and emotional safeguards into their delivery
• Professionals and volunteers working in the mental health field
• Grassroots organizers building bridges to minimize divisiveness while executing their mission
• Health Practitioners elevating their practice to be more trauma informed
• People struggling to eliminate stress, friction and conflict in their families, communities and workplaces

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