This session will draw attention to the integrative miracle that is sensing that we are safe. It will answer questions such as: What do all humans need when we are distressed? How widely do we need to see to be able to understand and respond? What patterns will help us to discern the next steps towards healing? and What practitioner skills and attitudes are fundamental to facilitate healing from trauma? This conversation will focus on the ordinary phrase ‘sense of safety’ and the transdisciplinary evidence for its usefulness in practice. It is about a big wide vision for community wellbeing relevant across the disciplines. It is about health across the whole person in their culture and context, and about microskills of developing shared language and therapeutic goals centred on building sense of safety. This paradigm shifting work is grounded in generalist whole person ways of seeing, and influenced by First Nations understanding of connections to country, community, and spirit. It is unifying vision emerging from fifteen years of clinical work as a family physician (general practitioner) offering trauma specific care and ten years of transdisciplinary doctoral and post-doctoral research searching for ways to integrate trauma-informed care into everyday health, education, and public policy.
 
 At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
 1/ Describe the transdisciplinary value of the ordinary English phrase ‘sense of safety’.
 2/ Name the seven Sense of Safety Whole Person Domains relevant to whole person wellbeing
 3/ Describe five dynamics that build sense of safety.
 4/ Name five practitioner skills and attitudes that facilitate a sense of safety.