THE SAFE FRAMEWORK · WILD ROSE THERAPY & EVENTCARE SOLUTIONS

Wild enough to explore,
safe enough to stop.

A practical framework for holding safe, supportive wellness spaces.

A partnership

Who is behind SAFE.

Melissa Way and Natasha Trafford-Chant, co-designers of the SAFE Framework

Wild Rose Therapy & Coaching

Natasha Trafford-Chant

Founder, Wild Rose Therapy & Coaching

Natasha brings over twenty years of experience across NHS mental health services, crisis care, trauma therapy, education and organisational development.

Her work focuses on creating psychologically safe environments where individuals, teams and communities can thrive.

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EventCare Solutions

Melissa Way

Strategic Health Advisor

Melissa brings extensive NHS operational leadership experience alongside expertise supporting healthcare providers delivering medical services at events.

She works with organisations navigating evolving healthcare legislation, clinical governance and CQC registration requirements, ensuring event medical provision is safe, effective and compliant.

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The framework

SAFE – a practical spine for the work you already do.

Developed from clinical, trauma-informed and event practice, and now being shaped with facilitators, organisers, medical and welfare teams and attendees through our open surveys.

SScope of role

Knowing what you are and aren't responsible for, so boundaries stay clear and care stays sustainable.

AAttunement

Reading the body, the group and the room before a moment escalates, and responding with sensitivity.

FFacilitation

Skilled holding of edges – knowing when to invite in, when to pause, and when to stop.

EEthics

Trauma-informed practice, informed consent, and aftercare woven through every stage of the work.

What we offer

SAFE Framework Programme

Reflective Practice

A space for facilitators to pause, think and learn from real experiences.

  • Explore moments that felt difficult or unexpected
  • Reflect on boundaries and what you might do differently
  • Support your own wellbeing as a facilitator

Practical Training

Interactive training for wellness facilitators, volunteers and event teams.

  • Recognise when someone is becoming overwhelmed
  • Understand choice, consent and scope of practice
  • Know when and how to ask for more help

SAFE Event Planning

Support for organisers who want to build care into their event from the start.

  • Choosing and briefing facilitators
  • Planning welfare and support routes
  • Thinking about the participant journey before, during and after

Event Support

Flexible support for individual events and organisations.

  • Psychological safety reviews
  • Team briefings and reflective debriefs
  • Policies, toolkits and ongoing advice

Psychological safety at wellness and music events

Wellness event safety, event welfare and facilitator safeguarding.

Wellness event safety

Wellness event safety covers far more than first aid cover and a risk assessment. Breathwork, ceremony, cold exposure, movement and deep sharing circles can all open people up quickly, often in unfamiliar surroundings, on little sleep and away from their usual support.

Practical wellness event safety means knowing who is in the room, what a session can and cannot hold, when to slow a session down, and who takes over when someone needs more than the facilitator can offer. The SAFE Framework turns that into shared language across the whole event team.

Event welfare

Event welfare is the care people receive around the programme: the quiet space, the person who notices someone leaving a session in tears, the handover between welfare, medical and production, and the follow up in the days after everyone goes home.

Good event welfare is planned before gates open. Clear thresholds for escalation, a named point of contact on every shift, a de-escalation plan that does not default to calling an ambulance, and aftercare that reaches attendees and crew alike.

Facilitator safeguarding

Facilitator safeguarding runs in two directions. It protects participants through scope of role, informed consent, appropriate touch, vetting and clear boundaries. It also protects facilitators, who often hold intense material alone with no supervision, no debrief and no reflective practice.

We are gathering what facilitators already have in place, where they feel exposed, and what support would genuinely help, so that safeguarding guidance is written from real practice rather than borrowed from a clinical setting that does not fit a field at 9pm.

What participants receive

Everything you need to hold the room and yourself.

Live training

Facilitated sessions with real practitioners, in small enough groups to actually be seen.

Practical scenarios

Work through the situations you actually face – not tidy hypotheticals.

The SAFE events toolkit

Frameworks and language you can bring into your next event on Monday morning.

Checklists & templates

Pre-event, in-event and aftercare – ready to adapt to your context.

Certificate of attendance

Recognised evidence of your training for insurers, venues and clients.

Follow-up resource

A written companion so the work keeps landing after the room clears.

A partnership

Clinical depth meets event healthcare experience.

Wild Rose Therapy

Trauma-informed therapeutic practice

Bringing clinical understanding of trauma, nervous-system regulation, consent and boundaries into the room. The language, thresholds and aftercare are grounded in real therapeutic work.

EVENTCARE SOLUTIONS

Medical and harm reduction advisors

Bringing leadership, facilitation and real-world event experience into the room. The reflection, learning and practical tools help organisers and facilitators make confident decisions and turn good intentions into action.

The partnership

Get to know the people behind SAFE.

SAFE is co-designed by two practitioners bridging medical safety and psychological safety at wellness events. Learn more about the mission, values and experience that shape the framework.

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