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Safe Shoots
You know the productions that just click. Team gels fast. People back each other up. Even brutal days feel okay because you trust who you're with.
You also know the other kind. No HR. No fixed employer. The same tension with the same person, week after week, never sorted. A blow-up everyone quietly moves past and never deals with.
The difference isn't luck. It's whether psychological safety got built in early, and whether whoever was leading had the tools for it.
This isn't a nice-to-have. It's basic risk assessment territory.
Physical safety. People who feel safe speak up about hazards before they become accidents.
The work. The best ideas rarely come from the most senior person in the room. They come from whoever feels safe enough to say them.
Reputation. This industry talks. Leaders known for treating people well get the crews who want to come back.
This is essential for every leader, on every team, on every production. Every production runs on freelance crews, tight schedules, and little to no HR backup. Anyone leading people on set will face a hard conversation or a struggling team member sooner or later. This is baseline training, not a specialism for leaders with a problem.
What's covered
Creating Psychological Safety On Productions: Small Steps, Big Impact. Build psychological safety through small, consistent actions
Identifying and Managing Psychosocial Risks. Spot the risks on a production and manage them before they become a bigger problem
Leading From A Place of Safety. Lead well even when you don't feel safe yourself.
Maintaining Safety Under Pressure. Practical tools for conflict, repair, feedback, and knowing when something's beyond what you can hold alone
What you'll walk away with
Confidence to build a team of freelancers who trust each other quickly under pressure, to have the hard conversations when they're needed, and to trust yourself as a leader.
Clarity on how to get to the bottom of what's actually happening when things get tense, what's yours to handle and what needs to go further up the chain, and the language to act on it.
Groundedness to hold your own sense of safety even when the people above you aren't holding it for you, so you're leading from steadiness rather than just reacting to whatever pressure lands next.
Become a Certified Safe Shoots by Dolly Leader
Complete the series of 4 x training modules and 6 x Executive Coaching sessions and you'll walk away with a Safe Shoots by Dolly certification showing you've done the work most of the industry still doesn't teach.
Why coaching's included
A workshop teaches you a framework. It can't sit with you through the conversation you're dreading. That's what coaching is for.
Training gives you the tools. Coaching tests them against your real job. It's the difference between knowing what to do and putting it into a real situation.
How Safe Shoots Works
Safe Shoots combines live group training with individual coaching, so you don't just learn the tools , you have time to apply them to your own leadership and production challenges.
Before we start
Discovery Call
We'll have a short 1:1 call to talk about your role, your current challenges and what you want to get from the programme as well as booking in your individual coaching sessions.
Training 1 - Creating Psychological Safety on Productions
Wednesday 4 November | 10am–12pmCoaching 1
Week commencing 9 November | 60 mins
Training 2 - Identifying & Managing Psychosocial Risks
Wednesday 18 November | 10am–12pmCoaching 2
Week commencing 23 November | 60 mins
Training 3 - Leading from a Place of Safety
Wednesday 2 December | 10am–12pmCoaching 3
Week commencing 7 December| 60 mins
Training 4 - Maintaining Safety Under Pressure
Wednesday 9 December | 10am–12pm
Christmas Break
A chance to step back, reflect and put the learning into practice.
January - Embed the Learning
The program continues with three further 1-hour individual coaching sessions:
Coaching 4 — W/C 11 January
Coaching 5 — W/C 25 January
Coaching 6 — W/C 8 February
Group Reflection & Celebration - Wed 10 February - 10-11.30am
These sessions are about turning the learning into lasting leadership habits, working through challenges as they arise and embedding the tools into your day-to-day practice.
In total
4 × 2-hour live training sessions
6 × 1-hour individual coaching sessions
1 × Discovery Call
Learn it. Apply it. Reflect on it. Embed it.
You know the productions that just click. Team gels fast. People back each other up. Even brutal days feel okay because you trust who you're with.
You also know the other kind. No HR. No fixed employer. The same tension with the same person, week after week, never sorted. A blow-up everyone quietly moves past and never deals with.
The difference isn't luck. It's whether psychological safety got built in early, and whether whoever was leading had the tools for it.
This isn't a nice-to-have. It's basic risk assessment territory.
Physical safety. People who feel safe speak up about hazards before they become accidents.
The work. The best ideas rarely come from the most senior person in the room. They come from whoever feels safe enough to say them.
Reputation. This industry talks. Leaders known for treating people well get the crews who want to come back.
This is essential for every leader, on every team, on every production. Every production runs on freelance crews, tight schedules, and little to no HR backup. Anyone leading people on set will face a hard conversation or a struggling team member sooner or later. This is baseline training, not a specialism for leaders with a problem.
What's covered
Creating Psychological Safety On Productions: Small Steps, Big Impact. Build psychological safety through small, consistent actions
Identifying and Managing Psychosocial Risks. Spot the risks on a production and manage them before they become a bigger problem
Leading From A Place of Safety. Lead well even when you don't feel safe yourself.
Maintaining Safety Under Pressure. Practical tools for conflict, repair, feedback, and knowing when something's beyond what you can hold alone
What you'll walk away with
Confidence to build a team of freelancers who trust each other quickly under pressure, to have the hard conversations when they're needed, and to trust yourself as a leader.
Clarity on how to get to the bottom of what's actually happening when things get tense, what's yours to handle and what needs to go further up the chain, and the language to act on it.
Groundedness to hold your own sense of safety even when the people above you aren't holding it for you, so you're leading from steadiness rather than just reacting to whatever pressure lands next.
Become a Certified Safe Shoots by Dolly Leader
Complete the series of 4 x training modules and 6 x Executive Coaching sessions and you'll walk away with a Safe Shoots by Dolly certification showing you've done the work most of the industry still doesn't teach.
Why coaching's included
A workshop teaches you a framework. It can't sit with you through the conversation you're dreading. That's what coaching is for.
Training gives you the tools. Coaching tests them against your real job. It's the difference between knowing what to do and putting it into a real situation.
How Safe Shoots Works
Safe Shoots combines live group training with individual coaching, so you don't just learn the tools , you have time to apply them to your own leadership and production challenges.
Before we start
Discovery Call
We'll have a short 1:1 call to talk about your role, your current challenges and what you want to get from the programme as well as booking in your individual coaching sessions.
Training 1 - Creating Psychological Safety on Productions
Wednesday 4 November | 10am–12pmCoaching 1
Week commencing 9 November | 60 mins
Training 2 - Identifying & Managing Psychosocial Risks
Wednesday 18 November | 10am–12pmCoaching 2
Week commencing 23 November | 60 mins
Training 3 - Leading from a Place of Safety
Wednesday 2 December | 10am–12pmCoaching 3
Week commencing 7 December| 60 mins
Training 4 - Maintaining Safety Under Pressure
Wednesday 9 December | 10am–12pm
Christmas Break
A chance to step back, reflect and put the learning into practice.
January - Embed the Learning
The program continues with three further 1-hour individual coaching sessions:
Coaching 4 — W/C 11 January
Coaching 5 — W/C 25 January
Coaching 6 — W/C 8 February
Group Reflection & Celebration - Wed 10 February - 10-11.30am
These sessions are about turning the learning into lasting leadership habits, working through challenges as they arise and embedding the tools into your day-to-day practice.
In total
4 × 2-hour live training sessions
6 × 1-hour individual coaching sessions
1 × Discovery Call
Learn it. Apply it. Reflect on it. Embed it.