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TELLS: Naming Early Signs of Workplace Mobbing

TELLS explains why early, deniable workplace mobbing harm is so hard to name—and why language matters before reputations freeze and exits narrow.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 7 May 2026

TELLS: Naming Early Signs of Workplace Mobbing

STRONGMAN: Manipulation by Force

Force does not always look like the monster. Sometimes it looks like the builder who makes appetite operational, containment elegant & punishment deniable.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 6 May 2026

STRATAGEM: Manipulation by Design

Before Macbeth reaches for the crown, the witches give him something more dangerous than power. They give him a premise.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 6 May 2026

STRAWMAN: Manipulation by Story

Before the box, there is the story. This vignette enters Set’s mind before the trap forms, exposing the first movement of the strawman: the private reduction of another person into a version small enough to punish.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 6 May 2026

KUDZU: Dark Ecology of Envy

KUDZU is a short uncanny fiction piece about envy, jealousy, and unchecked growth, told through the strange intelligence of an invasive vine.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 30 Apr 2026

Plausible Deniability in Workplace Mobbing: Hidden Manipulation Explained

Plausible deniability allows workplace harm to spread without clear statements. This post explains how truth is distorted through implication, repetition, and bias.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 8 Apr 2026

Plausible Deniability in Workplace Mobbing: Hidden Manipulation Explained

Scarcity Tactics at Work

Scarcity at work isn’t always real—it’s often engineered. This post explains how restricted resources are used to destabilize and control employees.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 6 Apr 2026

Double Bind: When You Can’t Win No Matter What You Do

A double bind at work creates impossible expectations. Learn how contradictory standards are used to confuse, control, and destabilize targets.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 3 Apr 2026

Double Bind: When You Can’t Win No Matter What You Do

Anatomy of a Smear Campaign

How smear campaigns use contradiction, narrative flooding, and social pressure to distort perception and isolate targets in the workplace.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 30 Mar 2026

Somatic Documentation: The Missing Layer in Workplace Mobbing Cases

Somatic documentation helps workplace mobbing targets track body-level evidence of stress, fear, shutdown, panic, insomnia & nervous system harm.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 19 Mar 2026

Somatic Documentation: The Missing Layer in Workplace Mobbing Cases

Salem Scapegoat's Trial: Witnessing the Weight

A leadership workbook and stage play for those who were actually the mirror. Trace the mechanism of scapegoating across history, institutions & identity. Name the pattern, dismantle the story & release the weight.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 12 Oct 2025

Salem Scapegoat's Trial: Witnessing the Weight

Gossip as Ritual: Psychological Warfare in the Modern Workplace

Gossip isn't harmless. It’s structural. Explore how social exclusion, verbal containment, and spiritual framing shape modern workplace harm.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 21 Aug 2025

Gossip as Ritual: Psychological Warfare in the Modern Workplace

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