FREEDOM FROM WORKPLACE BULLIES WEEK, OCT. 18-24

[Kathy]

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A Week for Support, Inspiration, Peace & Health

Freedom from Workplace Bullies Week is a chance to break though the
shame and silence surrounding bullying. It is a week to be daring and
bold.

~Bullied Targets~
Make this the time to break your silence. Tell co-workers, friends,
and family. Ask for help. Put your health first. Read the voluminous
research on health harm related to unremitting exposure to stress from
bullying. Schedule an appointment with a mental health professional
who understands bullying (see our Selection Guide). Talk to an
attorney for one hour to see if you have any legal recourse. Refuse to
believe the lies told about you and the shameful way you have been
abandoned. It is not about you; it's the perpetrator's need to control
others. Commit to either finding a new job or planning a fight-back
strategy to reclaim your dignity. Call your state senator and state
representative to ask her or him to sponsor the WBI Healthy Workplace
Bill.

~Spouses, Partners & Friends~
Give unconditional positive support to the targets. Believe them.
Provide needed respite from the toxic, stressful world of work targets
endure. Remind them of who they were before bullying injured them.

~Employers~
Learn how bullying is an unsustainable cost. Look beyond personalities
as causes to see how the workplace culture and environment make your
organization prone to bullying. Commit to correcting and preventing
it. Adopt the WBI/Work Doctor Blueprint to Prevent Workplace Bullying.

~Mental Health Professionals~
Learn about bullying at work. Trust what abuse victims tell you. Stop
holding targeted clients responsible for the unsolicited psychological
violence they endure. Understand how work environments, not personal
flaws, explain health-harming mistreatment. Stop committing the
fundamental attribution error. Believe that there are people as evil
as have been described to you. Learn more about workplace bullying at
WBI University so you can specialize. We will help market your
services.

~Unions~
Help bullied members. Stop defending abusive members. Adopt the
prevention of workplace bullying as an organizing tool. Schedule
training for members to become internal experts in bullying so they
can help member-coworkers. Make a bullying-free, safe workplace a goal
for members.

~School Administrators~
Learn about the WBI Workplace Bullying in Schools project, begun in
Iowa, to address bullying among adult employees -- teachers and staff.
Complement your student bullying with the program that reduces your
risk exposure while creating a healthy work environment to optimize
student success.


~Legislators~
Sponsor the WBI Healthy Workplace Bill in your state. 183 state
lawmakers already have already done so in 16 states. Listen to your
constituentsХ tales of workplace abuse. Add this bill to your populist
- for the people - agenda.