Psychological Safety Field Guide

Help teams and leaders improve everyday behaviours that strengthen trust, learning and collaboration.

The Psychological Safety Field Guide is a practical companion to the Psychological Safety work developed by Make Happy, drawing on research and ideas from Amy Edmondson, Google’s Project Aristotle, Flow theory and creative problem-solving practice.

It’s designed to help teams and leaders explore, reflect, and act – turning established ideas into everyday behaviours that strengthen trust, learning and collaboration.

What this board helps you do

• Build a shared understanding of psychological safety
• Reflect honestly on how safe, effective, and focused your team feels today
• Explore team effectiveness using a visual radar (Project Aristotle)
• Understand the conditions for ‘Flow’ — and what blocks it
• Practise simple, small scale actions that build safety in day-to-day work
• Commit to small, concrete actions you can take straight away

How to use this board

This board works well in facilitated workshops as a supporting tool, or as an alternative where in-person sessions are not possible.

• Work through the frames in order. Each section includes light prompts and interactive elements designed to spark discussion not provide answers.
• You’ll finish with a Now / Next / Later action frame to turn insight into momentum.

Co-designed by Steve Morris and Jonathan Bannister.

Use the Miro Template

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