Helping to bring more human-ness to work
Chat GPT announced itself in my world in December 2022, Twitter (as it was then) was full of people posting song lyrics about recent news in the style of recognisable songwriters like Nick Cave or Taylor Swift. I had a play and wasn’t that impressed then in 2023 all the self employed gurus were singing […]
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Baby steps towards becoming an eco social justice activist Step 1: Cancel Amazon Prime Possibly not the obvious first step for most people but it makes sense to me! Stop funding billionaire rocket projects, stop having all sorts of plastic nonsense easily available, stop supporting the exploitation of workers, right through the supply chain, and […]
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So this week (week ending 7/1/24), instead of reading Emergent Strategy like I said I would, I bought and read an entirely different book! Hidden Potential by Adam Grant was finally 99p for Kindle on the evil river website (I will link to there whilst it’s still 99p and when the price goes back up, […]
Read moreNow 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 […]
Read moreWho 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 […]
Read moreBailleur 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 […]
Read moreI’m supposed to write a blog post today. I missed last week’s and I’m determined to not let another week slide by. BUT. I live in a place called Bury South and our MP has today defected from the Conservatives to the Labour party and I’m honestly all over the place. The blog post I […]
Read moreI was going to call this “Frequently Asked Questions” but that seemed a bit over the top. Maybe one day people will frequently ask me something but not quite there yet…. When I sent out my original messages asking people to be on my list, I must have mentioned working with teams “post Covid” and […]
Read moreThis post is going to be a holding space for my initial thought and then as I read more widely I’ll be able to link these initial questions to full posts. Trauma and burnout – I suspect that trauma and burnout are going to both be common in the teams I’m working with. I need […]
Read moreThe past two years have been traumatic for health and social care staff but what do we mean by trauma and why is it important? The last two years have been the worst crisis I have lived through. The last two years have also been hell for many of the teams I work with in […]
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