There is a benefit to both safe and brave spaces; they go in tandem. Safe spaces are important for bridge building by bringing in and holding community. Brave spaces ask us to tap in deeper, and ask folks to model vulnerability and be in authentic expression with a trusted community. 

We need both spaces to sustain our advocacy efforts, rest, and do our own healing as leaders. Keosha shares that brave spaces are about challenging others' expectations of how they want us to show up and rejecting societal expectations and assumptions of how to lead and make change.

Safer and braver spaces are an active commitment. We can’t assume they are always safe; we have to actively create these conditions, check-in, and make adjustments. Stephanie suggests using the language saf-er and brav-er to speak to this ongoing work.