Zoom meetings from 3 PM to 6 PM - Last Saturday of the month
Capitol Chapter in Sacramento
Jeff Recht, Meeting Chair
Angie Martinez, Web Chair - Silicon Valley Chapter
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Saturday, October 30, 2021
No November Meeting
No December Meeting
2021 Public Remote Program
Saturday/Sunday
* Available seats for July 10-11 & 17-18, 2021
* To accommodate the demands of live Remote education spanning multiple time zones, there will be four (4) sessions.
* Sessions spread over two consecutive weekends.
* Saturdays start at 8:30 am (Pacific) end at 2 pm (Pacific), with 1 hour break.
* Sundays start at 8:30 am (Pacific) end at 2 pm (Pacific), with 1 hour break.
University will be Remotely presented via Zoom until further notice.
WORKPLACE BULLYING INSTITUTE (WBI)
PO BOX 578
CLARKSON, WA 99403
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2021 from 3 PM to 6 PM
AGENDA
NEW BUSINESS
Proclamation: Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week
Guest Speaker
Stories
Debriefing
Meeting Adjourned
Bullying is a systematic campaign of interpersonal destruction that jeopardizes your health, your career, the job you once loved. Bullying is a non-physical, non-homicidal form of violence. Because it is abusive it causes both emotional and stress-related physical harm.
Freedom from Bullies Week is a chance to break through the shame and silence surrounding bullying. It is a week to be daring and bold.
The power of workplace bullying is its ability to stay hidden in plain view. Make every workplace safe and take a stand against workplace bullying!
Dr. Namie, WBI University
https://workplacebullying.org/freedom-week/
September 28, 2021 FROM 3 PM to 6 PM
JOIN US
To join our monthly meetings, please provide your email address to Jeffrey Recht and he will add you to our email list. He will send you a ZOOM invite and password.
AGENDA TOPICS
1. New business - Proclamation
2. Guest Speaker
3. Video
4. Stories
5. Debrief
6. Meeting Adjourned
Guest Speaker Chris Jensen
Chris Jensen is the founder of Victors Over Narcissist Abuse, an online support group for men who have experienced emotional abuse by their partners or parents. Chris is a survivor of forty years of emotional abuse (ten by his adoptive parents, and thirty by soon-to-be-ex-wife) and is himself a seven-time survivor of workplace abuse. Having worked as a high-school English teacher for two decades, he now works freelance, developing resources alongside Dr. Gary Namie of the Workplace Bullying Institute. With keen interests in the Arts, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Politics, and Religion, Chris seeks to use his knowledge, skills, and insights to raise awareness of workplace bullying and create resources for targets, survivors, thrivers, advocates, and stakeholders alike. Chris will first introduce us to SafeHarbor, the new online community that he and Gary opened this past April. Then he'll speak on the topic of the Scapegoat Mechanism as it pertains to workplace abuse.
Healthy Workplace Bill
The Healthy Workplace Bill has been update with new language as of January 2021.
Freedom of Workplace Bullies Week
Please take the time to write to your City Councilmembers and your County Supervisors to add a Proclamation to the October 2021 Agenda.
BREAK THE SILENCE!
– Tell co-workers, friends, and family.
– Put your health first.
– Schedule a coaching appointment.
– Talk to an attorney.
– Do not believe the BIG LIE about you.
– Reclaim your dignity — fight back or find a new job.
– Don’t give in to fear, e.g., of being the next target.
– Share your bullying experiences with your targeted friend.
– Offer help. Targets are too ashamed to ask.
– Validate the target’s emotions, even if scary to you.
– Organize others AS A GROUP to confront the bully.
– Do not side with bullies against your friend, even when ordered to.
– Reinforce the target’s humanity. It’s the social compact among us all.
Next Meeting Saturday, October 30, 2021
August 28, 2021 FROM 3 PM TO 6 PM
Host Jeffrey Recht
Special Guest Carrie Clark
Special Guest Carrie Clark
Retired State employee and Union Steward, has defended many employees over the years facing workplace bullying. Jeffrey enjoys zooming every month and presenting new and exciting topics with attendees.
Special Guest Carrie Clark
Special Guest Carrie Clark
Special Guest Carrie Clark
Carrie Clark provides a unique view of bullying in the workplace. She brings a plethora of knowledge and experience related to politics and the Healthy Workplace Bill. She is pleased to learn of the new language added to the Bill.
Co-Host Angie Lomeli
Special Guest Carrie Clark
Co-Host Angie Lomeli
Angie Lomeli offers insight as a target of workplace bullying from both the government land education agencies. A perspective that motivates her to continue advocating and supporting the California State Bill to become a law.
JULY 31, 2021 FROM 3 PM TO 6 PM
Guest Speaker
Canadian Institute of Workplace Bullying Resource
Canadian Institute of Workplace Bullying Resource
Linda Crockett
Linda Crockett is the founder of the Workplace Bullying Resource Centre, and ABRC Counselling Services. She believes the first steps to enhancing psychological safety in the workplace is to build knowledge, stimulate open discussions, teach on the early warning signs, tactics, profiles, prevalence, and causes of harassment and bullying. In addition, offer solutions. Workers need to have an understanding and language to identify what is happening to them. Employers, leaders, and employees need tools to address this complex phenomenon. With information, skills, and tools, leaders and employees can prevent and/or intervene earlier before any harm has occurred.
Canadian Institute of Workplace Bullying Resource
Canadian Institute of Workplace Bullying Resource
Canadian Institute of Workplace Bullying Resource
Our mission is to provide services to individual and corporate clients with dignity, inclusion and integrity using evidence-based practices and approaches with openness and transparency.
Through our work, our mission is to enhance the quality of life for individuals and corporations. Our goal is to provide early intervention where we can and to provide repair and restoration of health functioning for those in need of help.
For workplaces, our mission is to provide counseling, consulting, and coaching services that lead to psychological health and safety for all everybody knows and gets excited about it.
AGENDA
- Introductions
- Jeffrey Recht Radio Interview
- Guest Speaker
- Announcements
- Story Time
- Meeting Adjourned
JUNE 26, 2021 FROM 3 PM to 6 PM
Bullied Out During Probation
Many bullies will size-up the new kid in town. If they find you as a threat, then the documentation begins. Anything and everything that appears wrong or can be expressed as wrong, will be wrong in the letter of the bully. Failing a new employee during the probationary period is the optimum time, because there is no legal defense for the target.
Agenda
- Introductions
- Announcements
- Guest Speaker Carrie Clark
- Story Time
- Meeting Adjourned
Please invite a friend to participate with us in July.
MAY 28, 2021 FROM 3 PM to 6 PM
Bullied Out During Probation
Many bullies will size-up the new kid in town. If they find you as a threat, then the documentation begins. Anything and everything that appears wrong or can be expressed as wrong, will be wrong in the letter of the bully. Failing a new employee during the probationary period is the optimum time, because there is no legal defense for the target.
Agenda
- Introductions
- Announcements
- Bullying Law in Puerto Rico
- Story Time
- Meeting Adjourned
Please invite a friend to participate with us in June.
APRIL 24, 2021 FROM 3 PM TO 6 PM
Agenda
- Introductions
- Announcements
- Bullying Law in Puerto Rico
- Story Time
- Next Meeting May 29, 2021
- Meeting Adjourned
The First Anti-bullying Law in the Great U.S. of A.
“Act to Prohibit and Prevent Workplace Harassment in Puerto Rico” (House Bill 306) was signed into law with the governor’s signature on Aug. 7, 2020. The primary purpose of the Act is to prohibit and prevent abusive conduct against employees in the workplace that affects worker performance, alters workplace peace, and threatens the dignity of employees.
Graciás Puerto Rico Gobernadora Hon. Wanda Vázquez Garced and the Legislatura.
March 27, 2021 from 3 PM to 6 PM
Guest Speaker Carrie Clark, CHWA Co-Founder
Guest Speaker Carrie Clark, CHWA Co-Founder
Guest Speaker Carrie Clark, CHWA Co-Founder
Carrie Clark is co-founder of the Healthy Workplace Advocates national network which is affiliated with the Workplace Bullying Institute. For seventeen years she has served as a labor advocate and activist with a goal to educate the workforce about workplace bullying and to pass anti-work abuse legislation in all states and at the federal level.
2021 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey
Guest Speaker Carrie Clark, CHWA Co-Founder
Guest Speaker Carrie Clark, CHWA Co-Founder
HEADLINE RESULTS
- 30% of workers bullied (compared to 19% in 2017)
- Estimated 48.6 Million Americans bullied at work
- 67% chance of losing job when targeted for bullying
- Mangers comprise 40% of those bullied
- Remote workers are bullied at a higher rate than others
- 90% of the public supports a new law to address bullying
The 2021 WBI National Survey is in and available for you to review. The full copy is available on our RESEARCH PAGE. Click on the link below for the abbreviated Single-Page Flyer.
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Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
MEETING FACILITATOR
The meeting will begin with Jeffrey Recht facilitating member self-introductions and guiding us through the day's program.
Angie Lomeli, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
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TIMEKEEPER
The meeting will be packed with several outstanding topics. In order to cover all agenda items, Angie Lomeli will keep time to remain on target.
- Introductions
- Announcements: 2021 Survey
- Guest Speakers
- Questions for Speakers
- Next Meeting March 27, 2021
- Meeting Adjourned
February 27, 2021 from 3 PM to 6 PM
Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
MEETING FACILITATOR
The meeting will begin with Jeffrey Recht facilitating member self-introductions and guiding us through the day's program.
Angie Lomeli, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Recht, Co-Chair
TIMEKEEPER
The meeting will be packed with several outstanding topics. In order to cover all agenda items, Angie Lomeli will keep time to remain on target.
- Introductions
- Announcements
- Guest Speakers
- Questions for Speakers
- Next Meeting March 27, 2021
- Meeting Adjourned
Announcements
Dr. Gary & Ruth Namie, WBI-U Founders
Dr. Gary & Ruth Namie, WBI-U Founders
WBI-U Training
- 2021 Courses Held Online
- 4 sessions / 2 weekends
- Sat/Sun 8:30 am-3 pm (Pac) Zoom
Dr. Gary & Ruth Namie, WBI-U Founders
Dr. Gary & Ruth Namie, WBI-U Founders
Dr. Gary & Ruth Namie, WBI-U Founders
Gary Namie is a social psychologist and anti-workplace bullying activist from Bellingham, Washington. He is the director of the Workplace Bullying Institute and Founding Father of CHWA.
January 30, 2021
Meeting Agenda
Guest Speaker Claudia Gold
Guest Speaker Claudia Gold
1. Brief Introductions
2. Announcements
3. Special Guest Dr. Namie
3a. Introduction and Upcoming Training
4. Guest Speaker Claudia Susan Gold
4a. Questions to Speaker
6. Stories of your accounts
7. Debrief
8. Next meeting information
9. Meeting promptly adjourned
Guest Speaker Claudia Gold
Guest Speaker Claudia Gold
Guest Speaker Claudia Gold
Claudia Susan Gold is a facilitator for "The Virtues Project", an international project that initially reached out to indigenous communities across the globe and later spread to people of various backgrounds.
Educated at Columbia University, she is a semi-retired clinical social worker and public health educator, with a background in educating University classes in the Humanities Department and enjoys teaching yoga. An enthusiast in expressive arts, she uses them to facilitate group sessions for mental health clients--adults and adolescents, as well as for staff in medical center departments, including for continuing
education. She enjoys writing fiction and non-fiction on Medium.com, doing Five-Rhythms dance, writing in calligraphy and reading and meditating on sacred writings.
The Virtues Project
Guest Speaker Claudia Gold
The Virtues Project
The Virtues Project™ is a global grassroots initiative to inspire the practice of virtues in everyday life, sparking a global revolution of kindness, justice, and integrity in more than 100 countries through Facilitators, Master Facilitators, Champions and Virtues Connections.
VIDEO:
The Five Strategies of The Virtues ProjectTM inspire individuals to live more authentic, joyful lives, families to raise children of compassion and integrity, educators to create safe, caring and high performing learning communities, and leaders to inspire excellence, ethics, and appreciation in the workplace.
October 31, 2020 Meeting
Meeting Agenda
Hear Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria's full speech about racism at the Air Force Academy
Guest Speaker Karen Harold
Our Agenda for the Halloween Meeting:
1. Introductions
2. Guest Speaker Karen Harold
2. A. Questions for Ms. Harold
3. Videos
3.A. Airforce Academy
3.B. The Bus Stop
3.C. The Silent Epidemic
4. Discussion on Videos
5. Stories
6. Debrief
7. Meeting Adjourned
8. Adjournment - Immediately
Guest Speaker Karen Harold
Hear Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria's full speech about racism at the Air Force Academy
Guest Speaker Karen Harold
Karen Harold is a mediator, alternative dispute specialist, author, keynote speaker and adjunct instructor at California State University Sacramento who coaches, educates, and advocates for the development and implementation of peacemaking and peacekeeping strategies to increase internal tranquility, improve relational interactions, reduce escalation of violence, call to account those who violate the law and victimize others, collaborate with local communities to develop actionable safety plans, and raise global awareness of the benefits of conflict prevention and living a culture of peace.
Hear Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria's full speech about racism at the Air Force Academy
Hear Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria's full speech about racism at the Air Force Academy
Hear Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria's full speech about racism at the Air Force Academy
African-American cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado were targeted this week with racial slurs. Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, the school's superintendent, made a powerful speech to the academy with an important message.
Anti bullying short film: The Bus stop (2017)
Anti bullying short film: The Bus stop (2017)
Hear Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria's full speech about racism at the Air Force Academy
Magic Cube 2017
You won't believe what happens to the bully in this video! This short film tells the story of Angela, an elderly woman who is bullied by a group of teenagers at a bus stop. She crosses paths again with, Carter, one of the bullies. Their confrontation leads to an unexpected outcome.
Workplace Bullying: The Silent Epidemic
Anti bullying short film: The Bus stop (2017)
Workplace Bullying: The Silent Epidemic
CBC News June 12, 2014
Victims are speaking out and employers are trying to figure out solutions at a new anti-bullying conference.
September 26, 2020
Agenda
Zoom Meeting ID: 816 8624 2786
See email for PASSWORD
- Introductions, please just state your name and where you work. No stories since that will be discussed in later the meeting. We are on a tight schedule for this meeting. (15 Minutes)
- VIDEO: Killer Stress- this is a video on stress and its effects. (1 hour 15 minutes.)
- Discussion of the Video (30 Minutes)
- Stories (30 minutes)
- Debrief - This is your turn to inform us in your mind; What worked for you and what did not work?
- We will be doing this each and every meeting. This is a method that unions use to improve meetings and so we are going to use it. We want to be of the best that we can with our meetings. So it will be your turn to inform us as to how you think that we can improve each meeting. We will take note of your feedback. (30 Minutes)
- Adjournment (Instantaneously)
Please note: We are instituting time management for our meetings and each section in the meeting, you will notice that there are now times by each entry on our Agenda. We will have a time keeper to remain on target. Please include that in your debrief as to if you think that worked or did not work.
Killer Stress
Commonly assigned to Psych students, this documentary provides an inside view of how the mind operates and how negative leads to negative actions and reactions.
August 29, 2020
Agenda
Proposed Agenda:
- Introductions of all attendees
- We will do some case facts
- You will be asked to how would you build a case around these facts.
- Stories
- Adjournment
Zoom Meeting
Zoom meeting. Topic: California Healthy Workplace Advocates Monthly MeetingTime: Aug 29, 2020 03:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom
May 30, 2020 - MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
Agenda
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81974317135?pwd=Q0I2MHlTa1BQUUR4eU1EeC80YXhWUT09
Meeting ID: 819 7431 7135
Password:
Proposed Agenda:
SPECIAL GUEST Dr. Gary Namie will drop in at 4 PM
A. Short Introductions of Members connected(No stories at this point since they will be discuss later in the meeting)
B. Gaslighting slides
C. Malignant Narcissism Article
D. No committees this meeting
E. Stories
F. Adjournment
Proclamation
Bullying is a systematic campaign of interpersonal destruction that jeopardizes your health, your career, the job you once loved.
Bullying is a non-physical, non-homicidal form of violence. Because it is abusive it causes both emotional and stress-related physical harm.
Freedom from Bullies Week is a chance to break through the shame and silence surrounding bullying. It is a week to be daring and bold.
The power of workplace bullying is its ability to stay hidden in plain view. Make every workplace safe and take a stand against workplace bullying!