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Why most psychosocial safety initiatives are "doomed to fail"
Treating psychosocial safety as a problem to be solved is itself problematic, according to an expert who says leaders need to feel safe themselves to cultivate safety.
Most current workplace strategies for health and wellbeing are "doomed to fail", because they ignore "the essential biological needs of humans", says Mackerel Sky – Leadership Matters founder Dr Isabelle Phillips.
She says a theory from biomedical researcher Stephen Porges, who has spent five decades studying the autonomic nervous system and the evolutionary need to feel safe and connected, is set to "rewrite history"...
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