This is also why all places benefit from practicing trauma-informed ways of crafting spaces, even if (and I would say especially if) they’re not therapy spaces or counseling or spaces for processing trauma. We can never guarantee that our spaces will be “safe,” and there’s no way to avoid all harm in a space no matter how many courses we’ve taken. But we can ensure that we are doing everything we can to minimize the chances for harm to occur, and maximize the quality of support we can offer when harm does happen.

Socially, tango can be a protective buffer to the effects of stress on a few different levels. It can also exacerbate the effects on those same levels.