Day One Presentations
Welcome
During this opening session, we created context for a rich, open, and engaging environment to explore how positive culture improves health and safety.
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"Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!" : The Role of Culture in our Efforts to Improve Health and Safety
In-Depth Session
In this session, we began by introducing a strong foundation for the Symposium by exploring the meaning of "culture" and its importance to sustaining healthy and safe behaviors. Together, we explored ways to understand culture and its influence on behavioral choices within the social environment. Examining culture allows us to connect with existing values and shift certain beliefs and attitudes to reduce risky behaviors and grow protective behaviors, which we define as a "positive culture."
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Communication: A Catalyst for Growing Positive Culture
In-Depth Session
This session engaged attendees in developing a deeper understanding of how communication can be used as a catalyst to improve health and safety. Communication includes a variety of methods ranging from mass media campaigns to leveraging the power of individual voices.
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"Don't Tell Me What to Do": Exploring the Role of Psychological Reactance
Emerging Ideas
Psychological reactance is a negative reaction triggered by a perception that something or someone is impinging on an individual's autonomy and freedoms. This reaction can impede efforts to improve health and safety on many issues including traffic safety ("don't tell me to wear a seat belt"), prevention ("don't tell me what to do"), and violence ("don't tell me how to act"). During this session, we introduced the concept and ways to quiet the negative responses.
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Day Two Presentations
Moving Beyond Bystander Engagement: Growing Safety Citizenship to Improve Health and Safety
In-Depth Session
This session introduced safety citizenship, which seeks to involve the majority of people engaging in safe behaviors to influence the smaller group engaging in risky behaviors. Safety citizenship requires creating a culture that values "our safety" and empowers early identification of potential risk, being proactive, and bystander engagement.
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"Don't Just Look for Your Lost Keys Under the Street Light": Engaging Workplaces to Improve Health and Safety
Emerging Ideas
Often, efforts to improve health and safety focus on reaching children in schools. While this strategy is important, it neglects the need to address the behaviors of adults. Workplaces provide an important opportunity to engage adults about health and safety behaviors. This session explored interventions designed for workplaces as opportunities to expand our portfolio of strategies to improve health and safety.
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The Importance of Social and Emotional Skills to Improve Health and Safety
In-Depth Session
Social and emotional skills include caring about others, making good decisions, behaving ethically and responsibly, developing positive relationships, and avoiding negative behaviors. Bolstering social and emotional skills can improve a wide variety of safety and health-related outcomes. During this session, we explored the important and powerful effects of social and emotional learning to improve health and safety.
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"Shhh ... Let's Not Talk About That Now": Stigma - A Barrier to Progress
Emerging Ideas
Many people in need of services do not access them because of perceived stigma. Understanding stigma and methods to reduce it are important for our efforts to grow a culture that supports health and safety for everyone. In this session, we explored the meaning of stigma, how it is manifested, and ways to address it.
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Day Three Presentations
Specific Leadership Skills to Grow a Positive Culture
In-Depth Session
Improving health and safety and transforming culture are acts of leadership. But what leadership skills are necessary to support and sustain effective actions? This session explored different leadership skills that are important to cultural transformation applicable to a variety of settings.
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Collective Conversation: A Powerful Tool to Move Forward
During this closing session, we engaged in purposeful dialogue to gather the wisdom shared over the previous days and identify opportunities and needs for the future.
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