An educational intervention
Supporting schools and developing young minds for a new world.
"Safe in Space" is a programmed designed to support schools in their RSHE curriculum. We focus on safeguarding and personal development in the finer areas of daily life. Our responsibility is to deliver the skills required to make calculated decisions in the areas of Personal Safety and Protective Behaviours, developing the students Confidence and Ownership of events. We do this through a system designed to educate students on core life skills, because we believe safety shouldn't stop at the school gates.
As a course "Safe in Space" equips the student on the practical tools required for managing conflict in areas that require self motivation. Our interactive workshops promote Resilience, Courage and Ownership for actions taken. We address decision making and de escalation under pressure and pysiological tools that are scientifically proven to work, in such situations. We understand that schools can't do everything, we lean into those areas that require acute focus and specialised care.
The core system concentrates on mitigating potential issues through awareness, both self and situational, the ability to make the correct decisions under pressure in order to administer their dichotomy of control. These specialised practices enable the student to develop into a competant and reliable contributor to society.
Fundamentally "Safe in Space" is a personal exploration of the students character development.
Learning Outcomes:
Self Awareness, Situational Awareness, Understanding physiological responses, Boundary Setting, Coercion Awareness, Confidence building, De -escalation Techniques and Personal Safety procedures
A personal message ..
As a father of 3 boys living in London, i started to see a worrying site in our children. A decline in response activity. Their senses were not as engaged as i thought they should be. Tools for success past the school gates. My observation led me to the question: Do our children understand cause and effect, on a primitive level? Instinctually are their senses being engaged in the laws of nature, outside the classroom walls, outside the virtual reality of a playstation, outside the comforts of our first world houses? If not, why not? Could it be our youngest generation are losing their ability to make decisions, to engage in real time practical thinking? Can they read a room? Could it be that they are so desensitised that the theory of "use it or lose it" was actually in perpetuation?
I too thought evolution was a slow burner, but after much research it turns out that i was wrong. "The energy cost to maintain the senses are so heavy that they would literally degrade if not engaged". Furthermore, degradation happens much faster because it takes just a few broken genes to lose a complex function, but thousands of precise, coordinated mutations to build a new one. Could it be that our children's senses, the vital development of our evolutionary process were being degraded due to our urban lifestyles? Surely the answer isn't to go back into the cave.
With this information, experience and skill set, I decided to develop a 2 hour immersive experience for the child, focusing on child safety past the school gates, science back tools to mitigate potential hazards in the urban environment and a new sense of "ownership of action" for the child. It had to be simple and easy to administer. A course was design to fit the requirements of the RHSE Curriculum - SAFE IN SPACE
We don't want children to live in fear, but equally the devil you know is better then the one you don't. We want our children to be equipped for events, ready with a sensible approach to difficult situations in order to find a clear path forward. A course to promote a calmer and more skilled decision maker.
Wil Coleman
Our Evolution
"When a society goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along".
Carl Sandburg
Over time, humans have developed a set of intrinsic skills to stay alive. These survival tools have shaped who we are today. In the last 30 years technology has slowed down their use and therefore effectiveness of these skills. Our lives are less about adapting to a changing environment, and more about repetitive cycle's. It's a first world condition. So, our senses have been suppressed to the point where our ability to function under pressure has regressed. We now live in a distracted society, where devices demand attention and take us away from reality. Our decisions are based on a "feel good factor" and less on a "survival factor". Devices, whilst useful can be damaging to the very essence of who we are: decision makers and action takers. Our children are crippled with indecisiveness and attention issues, its not just the food they eat but the environment they keep. The laws of nature are simple "you don't use it: you lose it". Our instincts were born and conditioned in the wild. Even though now we live in suburbia, the threats are still here.
Danger is still here, just in different forms, and by far the biggest danger for our children is the false sense of security that is an illusion. Unfortunately our social pursuit for comfort is making it easier for children to be taken advantage of. The fundamental principle of Safe in Space is:" You are responsible for yourself". Accepting control of any situation puts you in a position of power, this is where ownership and character is born.
Our mission at "Safe in Space" is to ignite the senses through practical conditioning. We create an environment that allows students to engage their impulse freely, with real time constructive analysis, encouraging the student to critically think under pressure and interact first hand with the outcome of their decisions. Focusing on self and situational awareness through an interactive experience will encourage competence in assessing real life situations that they may face outside the safety of the school environment.
