Bullying Prevention

It is not enough to ask leaders, employees, or students to befriend loners or victims of bullying and all of a sudden play friendly and be kind toward one another.  Primal responses to fear and abandonment create bully-type behaviors and reactions. These primal instincts that are fear-based become drives for humans to return to equilibrium or homeostasis during or after stressful events or pressures. Leaders, employees, and students often respond to this stress with unhealthy and sometimes unconscious internal drives to dominate and divide.  The unmet needs of individuals, organizations, and cultural groups must be addressed first so that instinctual impulses or the sympathetic nervous system arousal is not on automatic flight or fight. The question is, do you know the unmet needs of your leaders, employees, or students?