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House Party and the Four Stages of Psychological Safety

Image from the 1990 film, House Party

One of my all time favorite films is the original House Party that came out in 1990. Growing up, I would pop that tape into the VCR and watch it at least once a week. I rocked a flat top hair style. I even hosted my own house party freshman year in high school.

Now – these many years later, with a bald head and not VCR in sight – that movie and the whole idea of a house party has reemerged to represent something new for me: a metaphor for psychological safety.

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