🧶 That's only the most basic #EmotionalSafety. Further along, it allows communication and discussion of these tension boundaries, and pushing toward them if it is unanimously deemed enjoyable. The power to set limits is to the most vulnerable persons. (At least, it should be, if the ES is true.)

So, for me, right now and about tension and release, there is no boundary between ES and gameplay. If a boundary arises, it would rather be because the desired gameplay is not ES-compatible. Right?

🧶 That's only the most basic #EmotionalSafety. Further along, it allows communication and discussion of these tension boundaries, and pushing toward them if it is unanimously deemed enjoyable. The power to set limits is to the most vulnerable persons. (At least, it should be, if the ES is true.)

So, for me, right now and about tension and release, there is no boundary between ES and gameplay. If a boundary arises, it would rather be because the desired gameplay is not ES-compatible. Right?

🧶 Now, #emotionalSafety and gameplay.

I will speak of gameplay in terms of tension and release. In my eyes, tension and release is one of the important elements of an enjoyable game. And I’d say ES is needed when there is too much tension, most often in an asymmetric way.

ES needs and will lead to tension release. However, many gameplay tools/advices are for building asymmetric tension and keeping it. (Hence, in my mind, one of the points that lead to opposition to ES.)

Are you with me?

For me, #emotionalSafety is about feeling safe and being safe to: open up, speak up, disagree, express needs, ask for changes, surface concerns or vulnerability during the game, without fear or pressure.

It’s about knowing what to do, respectfully, and not being lost without guides, in difficult (gaming) situations.

What do you think? Would you agree with that? Am I missing obvious points, making assumptions? Overgeneralizing? Forgetting important parts? Does anything needs to be nuanced?

Still thinking on the limits, or lack of limits, between emotional safety and the gameplay and rules in #ttrpg

For me, emotional safety is (ES) firstly about trust, support and care. Secondly about techniques, protocols, social norms and culture in small groups and in the larger ttrpg culture to ensure that trust, support and care. 🧶

#emotionalSafety

Did anyone wrote or otherwise shared their thoughts about the continuum going to and from mental and emotional safety tools and practices in #ttrpg to good - efficient collaborative tools and practices? Notably: should they be separated or fused? I am vainly trying to wrap my head around that, for a long time.

#EmotionalSafety

Safety is Required for Wellness
CW: This podcast episode mentions within the context of needing safety in all aspects of our lives the topics of: restrictive eating, diet plans (like Weight Watchers), physical safety, physical assault, and sexual harassment and assault.

This episode is very close to my heart and
https://podcast.chickenyogi.com/safety-is-required-for-wellness/
#PodcastEpisodes #cPTSD #disorderedeating #emotionalsafety #gendersafety #physicalsafety #safety #worksafety