End Workplace Abuse's The Truth About Work Series is a four-part, survivor-centered journey that:

• Exposes the hidden dynamics of workplace abuse
• Explores the emotional and psychological toll on targets
• Provides practical strategies for protection
• Connects individual experiences to the urgent need for systemic and legislative change.

Through powerful storytelling, trauma-informed insights, and actionable guidance, this series equips participants to recognize abusive patterns, rebuild after harm, and join a growing movement committed to creating workplaces grounded in dignity, accountability, and true psychological safety.

Target Stories – Inside the Experience

How Power, Personality, and Manipulation Create Workplace Abuse
Saturday, January 10, 12-1pmET

Workplace abuse rarely starts loudly — it begins in the shadows. Subtle shifts in tone, changed expectations, strained dynamics, and confusing interactions slowly intensify until the target is isolated, destabilized, or blamed.

In this session, survivors share what these early moments looked like, how abusers weaponized personality, hierarchy, and “professionalism,” and how tactics like gaslighting, DARVO, mobbing, and reputation sabotage quietly unfold over time.

Together, we’ll explore how power dynamics and culture make abuse possible and why it often goes unseen by everyone except the target.

This session exposes:

• The earliest signs something is “off”

• How abusers hide behind charm, authority, or manufactured narratives

• Why targets don’t speak up sooner — and why it’s not their fault

• How silence, complicity, and culture allow abuse to spread

This is the foundational session of the series — naming the patterns so others can finally recognize what’s happening to them.

Healing & Recovery – From Trauma to Transformation

Rebuilding Identity, Confidence & Mental Health After Workplace Harm
Saturday, January 17, 12-1pmET

The emotional toll of workplace abuse can be devastating — depression, anxiety, burnout, physical health issues, and a profound loss of self-worth. But healing is possible, and it often begins long before justice or closure ever arrives.

In this session, survivors share the hardest parts of recovery, the tools and practices that helped them find their footing again, and the unexpected ways purpose and strength emerged from the pain.

We focus on what healing really looks like — messy, nonlinear, courageous, and deeply human.

This session explores:

• How trauma from the workplace impacts the mind and body

• First steps that begin the healing journey

• Therapy, community, advocacy, and spiritual or grounding practices

• Untangling identity from what was done to you

• How survivors rebuild trust in themselves — and in work

This is a compassionate, validating space designed to show survivors they are not alone — and that transformation is possible.

Prevention & Protection – Lessons from the Front Lines

Recognizing Red Flags, Defending Yourself, and Staying Grounded
Saturday, January 24, 12-1pmET

If targets knew the signs earlier, many could protect themselves sooner — or avoid deeper harm. This session takes lived experience and turns it into practical, actionable strategies for staying safe professionally, emotionally, and legally.

Speakers share what they wish they had known: how to spot early red flags, what to document, how to communicate with HR without being misinterpreted, and how to protect your reputation when someone is actively undermining you.

This session teaches:

• Early red flags of abuse (and why people miss them)

• How to distinguish normal conflict from psychological abuse

• Documentation strategies that hold up — and ones that don’t

• What HR investigations really look like

• How to stay centered when you’re being targeted

• Your first step the moment you suspect something is wrong

This session is ideal for current targets, allies, and anyone who wants to be better prepared before harm escalates.

The Bigger Picture – Systems, Culture & Change

How We Fix Work: Accountability, Culture, and the Workplace Psychological Safety Act
Saturday, January 31, 12-1pmET

Workplace abuse isn’t caused by a few “bad bosses.” It’s enabled by systems that reward silence, tolerate misconduct, and protect abusers at every level.
This session connects personal experiences to structural change, showing how power, culture, and weak policies allow abuse to flourish — and how legislation like the Workplace Psychological Safety Act can transform the landscape.

Speakers share how their stories reflect larger patterns: discrimination, retaliation, mobbing, HR failures, and toxic work cultures designed to shield those in power.

This session highlights:

• Why organizations normalize or minimize abuse

• How accountability measures can prevent harm

• What systemic reform should look like

• How the Workplace Psychological Safety Act fills the legal gap

• How to shift the narrative from “bad apple” to “broken system”

• What true psychological safety actually requires

This is the forward-looking session — focused on reform, rights, and the collective change needed to end workplace abuse once and for all.