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 # Seaside chat: Psychological safety
-
-_Planning notes on a 2024-01-11 meeting with Sunny Hospital, Stefanie Butland, Matt
-Fisher._
-
-
-## What is a seaside chat?
-
-The idea is encouraging a working team to have a regularly scheduled
-session without an agenda but it's about conversations. Deciding what you want to learn
-as a team, for example.
-
-The chat would start with a topic, and participants would lead.
-
-Reminds Matt of
-[Open Space Technology](https://peggyholman.com/papers/articles/good-work-for-2100-colombian-street-kids/)!
-
-
-## Defensiveness / psychological safety
-
-People would like to share but uncomfortable, fear of criticism, that's what they're
-used to from their grad program, etc.
-
-That environment is TRAUMATIC.
-
-Our goal is to help open the topic, help people be more comfortable, make it easier to
-talk about.
-
-Good _and_ bad interactions can be contagious / self-reinforcing.
-
-Stefanie:
-
-* Could be monthly repeated forum to share challenges and positive experiences, provide
-  long-term safe supportive space
-* Avoid solution engineering! e.g. "You could have said" or "you should do"
-
-
-## Sunny and my experiences working on Proj Forge from both sides are inspiring to share!
-
-* Sunny learned something from someone with a different perspective.
-    * GitHub Actions was new, shared it with colleagues.
-* Matt received energy from Sunny's participation and warm reception of an idea.
-    * In another community, I felt challenged, discouraged, demotivated about the
-      response to the same idea. I'm not saying my idea was good and deserved a positive
-      response, but: both positive and negative responses are very inexpensive to give,
-      but the outcome of a negative response can be very expensive. "Open science is kind
-      science" (Andy Barrett)
-
-
-## Structure
-
-1 hour
-
-Aside from basic structure setting the stage for the discussion, no leading / no
-pre-defined speakers. Any speaking by facilitators should serve the purpose of enabling
-group discussion, e.g. sharing an anecdote as an ice-breaker (more below).
-
-Topic is set in advance: "Psychological safety"
-
-
-### Potential sub-topics from:
-
-* how to give and receive criticism
-* trauma and how it effects our future decisions
-* how to create a safe environment
-* empowerment
-* cultural understanding
-* best practices to cultivate healthy scientific collaboration
-
-
-People who propose topics briefly share why they think it's a good topic.
-
-
-### Schedule
-
-If we have >8 people, let's vote with a tool like slido or menti
-
-Define psychological safety.
-
-Call out the current culture has psychological safety problems.
-
-
-#### 5 minutes submitting topics
-
-What does psychological safety mean to you? E.g.
-
-* Constructive criticism
-* Empowerment
-
-Some things about psychological safety that are important to you or have happened to you
-
-
-How do you handle situations that make you unsafe?
-
-
-#### 5 minutes choosing topics / voting
-
-#### Sharing experiences / ice breaker
-
-To set the tone, ask if anyone would like to share a psychological safety experience or
-reasons they thing psychological safety is important. If not, we have some stories ready
-to go.
-
-
-##### Sunny & Matt's negative and positive experiences
-
-_TODO_: Think about how to share negative experiences in a way that isn't too shamey
-
-E.g. Sometimes our projects aren't well-received by our peers, and that can cause us to
-"drop" ideas we would otherwise pursue.
-
-
-#### Let go!!!
-
-Let the participants lead the conversation from here.
-
-
-## TODO
-
-* Create a private GitHub repository to workshop our plan
-* Figure out how to set a time? Ask Stefanie? Use when2meet to poll people?
-* Develop an invitation that clearly describes what to expect from this meeting, i.e.
-  not a lecture, a safe discussion environment, etc.

_notes/2024-01-11_meeting.md

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+# Seaside chat: Psychological safety
+
+_Planning notes on a 2024-01-11 meeting with Sunny Hospital, Stefanie Butland, Matt
+Fisher._
+
+
+## What is a seaside chat?
+
+The idea is encouraging a working team to have a regularly scheduled
+session without an agenda but it's about conversations. Deciding what you want to learn
+as a team, for example.
+
+The chat would start with a topic, and participants would lead.
+
+Reminds Matt of
+[Open Space Technology](https://peggyholman.com/papers/articles/good-work-for-2100-colombian-street-kids/)!
+
+
+## Defensiveness / psychological safety
+
+People would like to share but uncomfortable, fear of criticism, that's what they're
+used to from their grad program, etc.
+
+That environment is TRAUMATIC.
+
+Our goal is to help open the topic, help people be more comfortable, make it easier to
+talk about.
+
+Good _and_ bad interactions can be contagious / self-reinforcing.
+
+Stefanie:
+
+* Could be monthly repeated forum to share challenges and positive experiences, provide
+  long-term safe supportive space
+* Avoid solution engineering! e.g. "You could have said" or "you should do"
+
+
+## Sunny and my experiences working on Proj Forge from both sides are inspiring to share!
+
+* Sunny learned something from someone with a different perspective.
+    * GitHub Actions was new, shared it with colleagues.
+* Matt received energy from Sunny's participation and warm reception of an idea.
+    * In another community, I felt challenged, discouraged, demotivated about the
+      response to the same idea. I'm not saying my idea was good and deserved a positive
+      response, but: both positive and negative responses are very inexpensive to give,
+      but the outcome of a negative response can be very expensive. "Open science is kind
+      science" (Andy Barrett)
+
+
+## Structure
+
+1 hour
+
+Aside from basic structure setting the stage for the discussion, no leading / no
+pre-defined speakers. Any speaking by facilitators should serve the purpose of enabling
+group discussion, e.g. sharing an anecdote as an ice-breaker (more below).
+
+Topic is set in advance: "Psychological safety"
+
+
+### Potential sub-topics from:
+
+* how to give and receive criticism
+* trauma and how it effects our future decisions
+* how to create a safe environment
+* empowerment
+* cultural understanding
+* best practices to cultivate healthy scientific collaboration
+
+
+People who propose topics briefly share why they think it's a good topic.
+
+
+### Schedule
+
+If we have >8 people, let's vote with a tool like slido or menti
+
+Define psychological safety.
+
+Call out the current culture has psychological safety problems.
+
+
+#### 5 minutes submitting topics
+
+What does psychological safety mean to you? E.g.
+
+* Constructive criticism
+* Empowerment
+
+Some things about psychological safety that are important to you or have happened to you
+
+
+How do you handle situations that make you unsafe?
+
+
+#### 5 minutes choosing topics / voting
+
+#### Sharing experiences / ice breaker
+
+To set the tone, ask if anyone would like to share a psychological safety experience or
+reasons they thing psychological safety is important. If not, we have some stories ready
+to go.
+
+
+##### Sunny & Matt's negative and positive experiences
+
+_TODO_: Think about how to share negative experiences in a way that isn't too shamey
+
+E.g. Sometimes our projects aren't well-received by our peers, and that can cause us to
+"drop" ideas we would otherwise pursue.
+
+
+#### Let go!!!
+
+Let the participants lead the conversation from here.
+
+
+## TODO
+
+* Create a private GitHub repository to workshop our plan
+* Figure out how to set a time? Ask Stefanie? Use when2meet to poll people?
+* Develop an invitation that clearly describes what to expect from this meeting, i.e.
+  not a lecture, a safe discussion environment, etc.

_quarto.yml

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   navbar:
     left:
-      - text: "About"
-        href: "about.md"
+      - text: "Placeholder"
 
 
 format:

index.md

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 ---
-title: "seaside-chat-psychological-safety"
+title: "Seaside chats: Psychological safety"
 ---
 
-This is a Quarto website.
+## What is a seaside chat?
 
-To learn more about Quarto websites visit <https://quarto.org/docs/websites>.
+The idea is encouraging a community to have a regularly scheduled session for
+safe, self-facilitated discussion with a limited agenda.
+These discussions often focus on technical, organizational, or interpersonal challenges.
+For example, exploring challenges with data visualization, open science, or psychological safety.
+
+The chat would start with a topic, and participants would lead with facilitators playing
+a role of ensuring the space is safe and that diverse voices are heard rather than
+leading the discussion.
+
+
+### Structure
+
+* Check-in / icebreaker (word cloud / survey / prompt): 5 minutes
+* Discussion on experiences / challenges: 25 minutes
+* Discussion on what we can do about it: 25 minutes
+* Wrap-up / prep next meeting: 5 minutes
+
+
+#### Discussion format
+
+* Gather ideas people want to talk about in some shared space, e.g. Google Doc,
+  Etherpad, Hedgedoc. Ideally, our tool can also allow voting.
+* Anyone can start talking about something
+* Use "raise hand" when others are talking to request to speak next
+* When discussion slows down, refer to the shared space with ideas to find the next
+  topic.
+
+
+## What is psychological safety?
+
+:::{.callout-note}
+TODO: Add some reference material, maybe a research paper, about what psychological
+safety is. Catherine Hicks might have one that's useful, but I think most of her
+research is software development focused.
+:::
+
+Psychological safety is the degree to which people feel comfortable speaking about
+sensitive subjects without fear of negative consequences.
+
+For example, many of us have experienced traumatic hyper-critical environments
+(academia, ...) that have resulted in low levels of psychological safety. Often, we feel
+uncomfortable or self-conscious speaking up because we're worried about how people will
+respond.
+
+Our goal is to help people become more comfortable sharing their work by discussing
+psychological safety, our experiences, and how we can all do better.
+
+
+## What can we do about it?
+
+Good _and_ bad interactions can be self-reinforcing or contagious. Our actions can
+establish virtuous cycles. Let's talk about what we want to see.
+
+
+## Cadence
+
+:::{.callout-note}
+TODO: We haven't yet decided on a cadence. Should we meet monthly to provide a long-term
+supportive space?
+:::