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Safe Space

A safe space can be defined as ‘an environment where everybody can feel comfortable to express themselves and fully contribute, without being afraid of being attacked, humiliated or seeing their experience being belittled’


Relevant links

  • Lugrin V Inclusivity in healthcare and the concept of ‘safe space’: opportunities and challenges British Journal of Sports Medicine 2022;56:533-534.
  • Karin K. Flensner & Marie Von der Lippe (2019) Being safe from what and safe for whom? A critical discussion of the conceptual metaphor of ‘safe space’, Intercultural Education, 30:3, 275-288


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