Month: February 2022

Now is the time for the Covid inquiry. The government has declared the covid pandemic to be over. Unfortunately we all know that it was a decision based on the government’s popularity over the ongoing saga of “partygate” rather than based on any evidence around infection, sickness, hospital capacity or deaths.  How to retraumatise a […]

Who am I to write about trauma? I’m not a psychology or social work professional, I’m not even in a related field. Even as an ethusiastic amateur, I struggle to read the scientific journal articles about this area. I do seem to read a lot of books which are more accessible than peer reviewed articles […]

Bailleur writes about organisations in the trauma trap where past injustices are not discussed and individuals, teams or organisations engage in unproductive behaviour to try to protect themselves from future pain. Whilst not mentioned explicitly, psychological safety is clearly missing from these organisations living deep in the organisational trauma trap. I only had a passing […]