It's Therapy Speak for "pitching ideas and asking questions is encouraged, you will not be reamed or looked down on if some of those are bad."

This is a good idea.

Unfortunately, using therapist jargon in other contexts sounds very strange, shibolethy and throws people off.

It’s not so jargony, is it? You’ve heard the word psychology before, and everybody knows what safety is. You can’t handle the two concepts applied together?

If so, what would you say in its place? It’s hard to write an article about a concept if you have to say "pitching ideas and asking questions is encouraged, you will not be reamed or looked down on if some of those are bad" every paragraph.

The irony of tech people complaining about jargon.

Sure, but I know what it means. Anecdotally, I've found for a lot of these borrowed phrases, unless the people I'm talking to are already familiar with family, I still have to explain what I'm talking about and how to apply it if I want to be understood.

And indeed, much irony.

I know, feel the same about codes of conduct. People who need those kinds of rules are the least likely to follow and most likely to weaponize them.

But I think we can agree it's a good thing to feel assured that having different opinions and occasionally being wrong is not going to be a problem, that this is something that could potentially affect the team in positive ways?

The kind of thing an abuser would want to manage. Or those with good intentions. Hard to say!

I'm just here to do good stuff and not starve, man. Y'all doing too much.