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Sarah Jessie Tucker | Poet | Storyteller | Facilitator

I've spent over 14 years supporting senior leaders, from lawyers to producers, but at heart, I'm a poet, storyteller, and Cultivating Safe Spaces (CSS) facilitator. Since 2012, I've been on my own journey of healing and understanding self. Along the way, I've discovered how powerful it is when we begin to understand our patterns, regulate our emotions, and take responsibility for how we show up. When we can catch ourselves before projecting onto others, we create the conditions for stronger, more resilient teams and relationships that can truly grow and last.


That’s what draws me to this work. I love facilitating workshops and conversations that invite people to slow down, reflect, and build more compassionate, connected spaces for themselves and for each other. If that resonates, I’d be honoured to bring this work to your organization, team, or community. Explore my CSS profile to learn more.

CSS directory bio

Workshops

Virtual

Virtual training is available for up to 30 participants. We offer 90-minute, 3-hour, and 5-hour training. When booking a 5-hour training you have the option of creating a full day or 2 half days. 

In-Person

Up to 25 participants can attend in-person training. We offer 90-minute, 3-hour, and 5-hour training. When booking a 5-hour training, you have the option of creating a full day or two half days. We welcome community invites. When invited 90km outside of Toronto, there will be extra costs for travel and accommodations.

Offerings

Sarah facilitates workshops that help teams shift from burnout to belonging. We partner with nonprofits, artists, law firms, and corporate teams. Hire Sarah for any of the following workshops, or request a custom workshop.


  • Intro to Cultivating Safe Spaces
  • Cultivating Safe Spaces for Grant Writing
  • Understanding Self

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What is Cultivating Safe Spaces?

A leadership model rooted in Indigenous knowledges, neuroscience, emotional safety, and systems change. The Cultivating Safe Spaces (CSS) Framework was created in 2019 to support communities in trauma-informed facilitation. A relational leadership framework that belonges everywhere people gather — boardrooms, classrooms, councils, movements, and beyond. CSS was founded by Elaine Alec, and e-courses are available through Naqsmist Storytellers Inc. 

Cultivating Safe Spaces: Intro e-Course

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Frequently Asked Questions

Cultivating Safe Spaces is for all humans. The CSS framework is a worldview-shifting framework that empowers individuals who may be struggling to understand what trauma, decolonization and reconciliation look like.


In-person, up to 25 participants, investment ranges from $2,000 - $5,000; virtual, up to 30 participants, investment ranges from $1,200 - $4,000. Sliding scale for limited budgets will be considered, as long as we are maintaining reciprocity for my time and energy (such as a fee, acknowledgment, marketing, or donation). Please contact us in the form below to inquire about sliding scale fees.


Format depends on duration booked. Tyipcially a 3-hour in-person training looks like the following:

  • Opening circle
  • Presentation
  • Breakout groups
  • Break
  • Presentation
  • Breakout groups
  • Closing circle


Participants learn about the CSS framework, colonial vs. decolonial, and what is trauma diagrams. Breakout groups give participants an opportunity to discuss and brainstorm how to apply the framework to their lives and work. Everyone receives a workbook and a link to access their copy of the CSS framework. 


Benefits include improved communication skills, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, trust building, self-confidence and inclusion. The CSS framework transforms spaces in the following ways:

  • Bridge awareness with an actionable strategy
  • Fosters safety, belonging and connection
  • Navigating hard conversations with resilience 
  • Embeds lasting change, shifting group and organizational dynamics toward inclusivity


Cultivating Safe Spaces is for everyone. Sarah was within the founding cohort and is now a licensed facilitator. We pay a yearly fee to maintain our licensed certification. Reconciliation is a shared responsibility. Sarah facilitates CSS in her own way with her lived experience and stories learned through her journey of understanding self. 


We highly recommend reading Elaine Alec's books, Calling My Spirit Back and Coming of Age. https://www.elainealec.com/


CSS e-courses https://naqsmist.mykajabi.com/CSS-ecourses


See the cultivating safe spaces podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/5Ihvcos0TUif9BzrF9P8tH?si=ca93d64979134a62


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In the spirit of reconciliation, I acknowledge that it is a privilege and an honour to live, work, and create on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta. At SJT Writing we are lifelong learners of Truth and Reconciliation and strive to practice decolonization.

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