Wrexham bullies?
Have you been bullied at any time by Wrexham Borough Council? Freedom to Care (which supports conscientious employees who have been bullied for speaking up) is interested in hearing from Wrexham Borough Council employees, past and present, in any job, who have a story to tell. Contact in confidence: freedomtocare@aol.com or Chris on 01978 750583 and see www.freedomtocare.org

How were you dealt with by your solicitor or barrister? I'm Karen Coates (I appeared with Tim Field on Richard & Judy) and I'm interested in the manner in which UK people were dealt with by their solicitor or barrister. I'm not interested in the legal advice itself. Arrogance, disdain, rudeness, not returning calls are just a few examples of how the very people who can help hurt individuals get back on track in fact exacerbate the problem. I am trying to get the profession on board, so I'm not interested in naming and shaming but instead working with those professionals who are enlightened to raise awareness, spread the word and ultimately improve the quality of legal services to targets of bullying. Contact Karen Coates at DAVKA@beckcot.freeserve.co.uk

Media requests:

Are you living or working with a control freak? I'm Hollie Smith and I'm writing another feature for Woman magazine, this time about the difficulties of living or working with a control freak. I'd like to find someone (female in the UK, any age) who has in the past or is currently going through this experience in the workplace. Email Hollie Smith at holliemsmith@onetel.net.uk

New York Daily News: I'm Jordan Lite and I'm a freelance journalist with an assignment from the New York Daily News to write about bullying in the workplace. I'm looking for people in the New York metro area to interview who have experienced any of the following while on the job: repeated, malicious verbal harassment of a general nature (NOT sexual harassment or discrimination based on race, gender, age, sexual orientation or religion); deliberate humiliation; or the withholding of resources or support that prevented them from performing their jobs. The abuse could have come at the hand of a supervisor or a colleague. In the case of teachers or people working in the retail or services industries, it could also have come from students or customers. I am especially interested in talking with people who experienced short or long-term health effects from the abuse -- stress, depression, insomnia, nightmares, phobias, gastrointestinal troubles, etc. -- or whose careers or lives outside the office were significantly impacted by it. No workers comp cases, please. Willing interviewees should e-mail me at joalli@mail.com ONLY if they live in the New York metro area. The paper strongly prefers that sources be identified by name, though exceptions may be made if absolutely necessary. The piece will be written such that the business where the abuse occurred and the bully will not be recognizable.

Set the record straight:  I'm Susan Wallace, a well-established freelance feature writer for UK women's magazines. I'm looking for a person in the UK who has recently won a tribunal or court case against a company for being bullied out of a job. Real names and photos will be used, so there must be no gagging order (which I know is often the case when compensation is involved.) It must not have been in any women's magazine already either. You will be handled sensitively and it's a chance to set the record straight. Tel 0151-233 3689 / 07801 055556 (I'll ring you straight back (UK)) Or e-mail suzyscoop@hotmail.com

Bullying in boarding schools: I'm Juliet Riddell, I am researcher for UK Granada Television. I am working on a programme about British boarding schools and trying to contact people that have attended them and experienced bullying. The best way to contact me is via email at Juliet.Riddell@granadamedia.com or to call me on 0207 633 2544.

From the makers of Big Brother: I'm Dawn McVeigh and I'm working on a new programme which will involve a dozen or so 18 year-olds living together. They need to be in the UK and available for a couple of weeks from the end of July to the beginning of August. At the moment we are in the processing of casting and we are looking for really good contributors - great characters who are brilliant talkers with a bit of a story to tell. As part of our research we are looking into issues that affect teenagers and we know bullying is one of them. For instance, we'd be interested to hear from anyone who has been bullied but confronted their attackers and come through the other side. Or possibly someone who was a bully but has changed. Contact: Dawn McVeigh, Researcher, Endemol UK, Tel 08705 100 791, email throwntogether@endemoluk.com

The London Support Group
The London Support Group meets at various locations in and around London and is a friendly group of like-minded people meeting in a safe environment. The next meeting is on Wednesday 25th June, following Tim's seminar on Recovery. Everyone is welcome to join us, regardless of whether you are attending the seminar. It is timed on the same day to enable some out-of-town members to join us before they head back home. For more information, email Jo at jo@jabrown.idps.co.uk

More information on support groups at resources/groups.htm

Some airlines are flying on a wing ... and a prayer
Stress and bullying at work have serious safety consequences if you're a pilot ... or passenger: http://www.pprune.org/ and workbully/bystand.htm which looks at the issue of pilots prevented from speaking up (see last two paragraphs)

Psychological Test Probes Minds of Psychopaths
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=4&u=/nm/20030528/sc_nm/science_psychopaths_dc

Corporate Social Responsibility recognised
Roger Cowe reports on the emerging importance of the well rounded manager: http://www.transparency.org/cgi-bin/dcn-read.pl?citID=55032

More on executive pay and corporate social responsibility
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=575

UK Government Partnership Fund
...provides support for workplace initiatives which improve working conditions: http://164.36.164.20/work-lifebalance/funding_partnership.html

See how one former target has got her life back together
http://www.relax-well.co.uk/colour&sparkle.html

The working environment should be included in research into bullying
http://www.arbetslivsinstitutet.se/workinglife/03-1/03.asp

Conscientious objector or hero?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3025495.stm

NHS employees can claim temporary injury benefit
Any NHS employee on an old Whitley-style contract is entitled to apply for temporary injury allowance if they suffer physical or psychological injury as a result of working for the NHS. Details at http://www.nhspa.gov.uk/Web_EAGuide/part13section2.pdf

Dr Robert W Fuller talks about his book Abuse of Rank
http://www.voanews.com/TalkToAmerica/article.cfm?objectid=FB3CBF18-7FCA-410F-B0BD88C38727272C and http://www.wamu.org/dr/2003/drarc_030407.html and http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15745

We're seeing less evil, honest
Ethics in the workplace: http://www.transparency.org/cgi-bin/dcn-read.pl?citID=60146

What is empathy?
http://www.seekerscircle.com/Articles/empathy.htm

Talking of empathy...
Are you able to empathise? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030520/140/e0fzi.html

Schadenfreude
That guilty pleasure we take in the misfortunes of others: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/s680880.htm

The work of Abraham Maslow
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/maslow.html

Managing anger
http://www.siu.edu/offices/counsel/anger.htm

Ever felt frightened, ashamed or embarrassed to tell your doctor how you feel?
You're not alone: http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/talking/gp/embarrassment.shtml

Preventing abused children being returned to abusers
http://www.janealvarez.com/

Locations: Transforming Schools from Bully-Havens to Safe Havens
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/interventions/bully/location.shtml

Myths and misperceptions page updated
I continue to deconstruct all the myths, misperceptions and stereotypes that surround and sustain bullying: workbully/myths.htm (workplace bullying) and schoolbully/myths.htm (school bullying)

Tim Field shares his insight
Understanding and tackling bullying at work: successunlimited/seminars/s1b.htm
Recovery and re-empowerment after bullying and abusive life events: successunlimited/seminars/s1b.htm

School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse: See It - Stop It - Prevent It
by Gail Pursell Elliott: http://www.innovations-training.com/

Bullies, Bigmouths and So-called Friends
By Jenny Alexander: http://www.madaboutbooks.com/index.asp?url=bookdetails.asp&book=42971 (for boys) and http://www.madaboutbooks.com/index.asp?url=bookdetails.asp&book=43506 (for girls)

How to recognize dangerous people
Books by Anna Salter: http://www.annasalter.com/publications_njs.html

Business ethics: facing up to the issues
By Chris Moon, Clive Bonny and others: http://www.profilebooks.co.uk/econcat/economist/bus_ethics.htm

If You Want to Make God Really Laugh Show Him Your Business Plan
101 Universal Laws of Business by Barry Gibbons, the former president of Burger King USA who went from flipping burgers to flipping 'eck: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1841120839/202-2051125-5070201

Warning! May Contain Nuts
Absolutely the First Definitive Review of the Incompetent, Inadvertant and Occasionally Illegal World of Business in the New Millennium ... Barry Gibbons masters the art of the short title with another irreverent, no-nonsense canter through corporate catastrophe: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1841124621/qid=1054904530/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_2_3/202-4482250-2661444

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Spreading the word
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Bully in sight: how to predict, resist, challenge and combat workplace bullying
Tim Field, Success Unlimited, 1996, ISBN 0-9529121-0-4
Foreword by Diana Lamplugh OBE
An insider's view which validates the experience of bullying
Over 7500 copies sold.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: the invisible injury, 2001 edition
David Kinchin
Success Unlimited, 2001
ISBN 0-9529121-3-9
An insider's view from a former sufferer.
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Bullycide: death at playtime, an exposé of child suicide cause by bullying
Neil Marr and Tim Field
Success Unlimited, 2001
ISBN 0-9529121-2-0
Introduction by Jo Brand
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