Creating Safety Through Presence and Honesty with Natalie Keany

About this episode

Tessa interviews Natalie Keany about the importance of presence and honesty in creating safety during facilitation.

In this interview Tessa spoke to Natalie from [https://www.evolvebreathbody.com/](https://www.evolvebreathbody.com/) about: - Boundaries and consent - Slowing down consent with practising when body is saying yes and when no - How presence underpins all the other practices - In longer sessions or trainings, it's important not to make big decisions until learning integrated - Honesty is important from the facilitator to create a feeling of safety in people's nervous systems - Sharing your own experience as a facilitator is context dependent - sometimes might be more appropriate to share with those that opt in into a smaller group - Holding space skills are natural to humans - more like a remembering than a learning

People in this episode

Host: Tessa Venuti Sanderson

Guest: Natalie Keany

Topics covered

• boundaries
• consent
• presence
• facilitation
• safety
• nervous system

Keywords

• boundaries
• consent
• facilitation
• safety
• nervous system
• presence
• honesty

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Evolve Breath Body

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