Blog tagged as Bullying

How Union Stewards Can Stand Up Against Workplace Bullying 
For the past five months, I have been working on finalizing the second edition of The Union Steward's Guide to Dealing with Workplace Bullying. This was a book that refused to settle down and often mirrored the chaos in our national environment. Minor errors and printing problems kept popping up.
How We Get Trapped:  The Narcissistic Promise and Challenge


I wrote this blog several years ago after reading Shahida Arabi's excellent book entitled Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare. With Trump's second term just beginning, I thought a return to the concept of the narcissistic pattern would be appropriate. In Arabi's first chapter, Recognizing the Narcis...

The IVAT Conference and EPIC Moments for Healing Trauma

I just returned from 3 days of a 4 day conference in La Jolla, California that focused on dealing with trauma and violence in multiple forms.  I was able to present about workplace bullying from the organizational systems perspective a room of over 100 military, VA and state employees working i...

WHAT IS BULLYING? Understanding the Abuse
One way to understand bullying is to investigate evolution. Chimpanzees are examined as one marker of our distant past that explains bullying behaviors today.