The Emotional Recovery from Workplace Mobbing Workbook: Practical Help for Recovering Targets

By Richard Schwindt

The Emotional Recovery from Workplace Mobbing Workbook is the companion volume to Emotional Recovery from Workplace Mobbing. Building on ideas from the first book it provides ideas, scenarios and questions to help mobbing targets move on. It goes deeper into how people can use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and Self hypnosis to move forward. In addition it addresses the sticky question of returning to work; how to prepare and what to watch for at your new employer. Scenarios and case studies are followed by questions designed to help you look inwards and learn from your experience. This is an ideal next step in your emotional recovery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: May 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9780992105426

Book preview

Author

Do these things first

Take care of your physical health.

Make yourself an expert on workplace mobbing.

Gather your real supports around you.

Respond on the High Road

Understand that we are mind, body and spirit.

Position yourself spiritually for change.

Understand how people heal emotionally.

Do you need to take care of something in your health? Are your sleeping, eating, exercise and hydration optimal? If not, this is where you start. You may need to go for a long walk with a friend or loved one or clear away the clutter in your bedroom so that your rest is undistracted. Perhaps you need to stop eating chips every night in front of the TV or skipping breakfast in the morning. Maybe having a bottle of water on your desk during the day will help you ensure that you are getting the liquid you need to stay energetic and well. Does your health care provider want you to follow something up like a blood test? When is the last time you had your teeth cleaned?

Someone out there cares about you, probably lots of people. Have you spoken to your friends lately? Have you enquired after their lives? Wouldn’t it be nice to get together for a drink or coffee? How about your spouse; are things going well at work for him/her? Does your son want someone at hockey tonight to watch his game? Does your daughter want someone to hear her English Essay? Is there someone you need to thank, consult or support?

When is the last time you picked up your guitar? Didn’t your buddy tell you the other day that he was going fishing on Saturday? What’s that, you’ve missed three Yoga classes in a row! Has the Pride committee called and asked for your help planning the weekend? You have time to get to church on Sunday; you know you always come out feeling better.

In a world full of complexities the items above are small and simple. And yet they are as important to wellbeing and recovery as anything else in this book.

Introduction

The reception to the Emotional Recovery from Workplace Mobbing has been excellent. The feedback from people who have been mobbed has been overwhelmingly positive. Former targets are often astonished that someone actually understands their experience and has put that in writing. This book is the companion volume.

E-books do well when they are direct, with a clear mandate and short punchy paragraphs. This is ideal for targets that may have difficulty with focus and concentration. I wasn’t able to read for pleasure for almost a year following my own experience; to focus on reading was to leave myself unsafe. I am always learning more about mobbing; mostly from my clients; it is their experience and input that informs this book.

The mandate of this book is to add practical skills to your repertoire and to help you with some of the predictable aftermath of the mobbing experience, including going back to work. I have also added some stories with questions and the experience of a therapist’s eye view of an interview with a mobbing target. These scenarios are meant to present you with a slightly distanced perspective on mobbing so that you can review your ideas, thoughts and emotional responses. If this was a hard copy paper book I would include lines for answering questions but my alternate suggestion is to get a notebook and answer some of the questions as you find them. I believe that writing is a powerful tool for healing but it makes a big difference to write in a structured way. This can include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy exercises, developing safety plan; ensuring that you have events accurately recorded and writing specific answers to the questions that arise during a mobbing.

These tools are meant to put power back in your hands and support your healing. The more tools you have the stronger you will be. And it’s not just the tools; it’s knowing that you have them.

Milton Erickson was well known as the best and most original medical hypnotherapist of his day. He once received a call from a woman who wanted his help but articulated that she was too shy to see him. She asked instead if