Relational Safety
Understanding Safety, Boundaries and Healthy Relationships
Relational Safety is a one-day online therapeutic group programme designed to help participants understand how sexual trauma can affect boundaries, trust, consent, closeness, withdrawal, protection, and relational confidence.
For many people, past experiences can influence how safe, connected, and secure relationships feel. This programme provides a supportive space to explore these experiences while building practical skills for creating healthier relationships with ourselves and others.
Using an Internal Family Systems (IFS) and nervous system-informed approach, participants explore how nervous system responses, attachment patterns, and past experiences can influence current relationships. Through education, reflection, and practical exercises, participants develop greater awareness of relational patterns and strengthen their ability to create safe and meaningful connections.
Participants are never required to disclose personal trauma experiences, and all sharing remains optional. The focus is on learning, self-awareness, and practical skill development rather than trauma processing.
What We Will Explore
Participants will explore:
Understanding relational safety
Attachment and connection
Healthy boundaries
Trust and vulnerability
Nervous system responses within relationships
Communication and emotional regulation
Recognising relationship patterns
Building healthy and sustainable connections
Participants will gain practical strategies for strengthening relationships and creating greater emotional safety.
Who Is This Programme For
This programme may be suitable for people who:
Want to build healthier relationships
Find relationships challenging or overwhelming
Struggle with boundaries or people-pleasing
Want to better understand attachment and connection
Are navigating relationship changes or transitions
Would like practical tools to improve communication and connection
No prior experience is required.
What To Expect
Participants can expect:
A respectful and supportive environment
Psychoeducation and practical learning
Guided reflection and discussion
Opportunities to develop new skills
No pressure to disclose personal experiences
A trauma-informed and strengths-based approach
Participants will leave with greater insight into their relational patterns and practical tools for building safe, healthy connections.
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Details
Dates: Term 3 Thursday 23rd July / Term 4 Thursday 17th December
Location: Online
