In this episode of Exposing Workplace Bullying, Dr. Jan Kircher reveals how bystanders stop being neutral and start becoming part of the abuse.
When they cross the line, they don’t just protect the bully — they help build the system that keeps bullying alive and amplify the harm it causes.
Resources:
StopBullyCulture.com for tools and support
Follow Dr. Jan Kircher for updates and stories
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Includes discussion of emotional abuse, institutional betrayal, and workplace harm.
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The Psychology of the Crowd
Workplace bullying doesn’t survive because of one person — it survives because of the crowd that allows it. In this episode, Dr. Jan Kircher breaks down how groupthink, bias, and the need to belong twist ordinary workplaces into systems that protect the bully and punish truth-tellers.
You’ll hear how bystanders learn to rationalize harm, how bias turns cruelty into conviction, and why neutrality is the most dangerous stance of all. This is where the psychology of the crowd meets the sociology of bully culture — and why understanding it is the first step toward breaking it.
Resources:
StopBullyCulture.com for tools and support
Follow Dr. Jan Kircher for updates and stories
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Includes discussion of emotional abuse, institutional betrayal, and workplace harm.
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The Myth of Neutrality
In this episode of Exposing Workplace Bullying, Dr. Jan Kircher challenges one of the biggest lies in bully culture—the idea that bystanders are neutral.
Neutrality isn’t harmless; it’s complicity.
Drawing from personal experience and years of research, Dr. Kircher reveals how bystanders protect power through inaction and what that means for those who experience bullying.
Resources:
StopBullyCulture.com for tools and support
Follow Dr. Jan Kircher for updates and stories
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Includes discussion of emotional abuse, institutional betrayal, and workplace harm.
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Bystanders: Who Are You?
Season Two of Exposing Workplace Bullying starts here. This episode pulls back the curtain on bystanders—the people who see bullying but do nothing.
Dr. Jan Kircher explores why silence is never neutral, how group dynamics protect bullies, and why betrayal from bystanders often hurts the most.
🎧 Listen now and see the full picture of bully culture.
Resources:
StopBullyCulture.com for tools and support
Follow Dr. Jan Kircher for updates and stories
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Includes discussion of emotional abuse, institutional betrayal, and workplace harm.
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Reclaiming Your Power: The Truth Beyond Survival
Reclaiming your power at work isn’t about fighting the bully — it’s about protecting yourself, staying steady, and building strategies that actually work. In this episode, Dr. Jan Kircher pulls together everything from Season One, showing how to move from surviving to rebuilding while preparing for Season Two: The Bystander Effect. Learn how to focus on your response, reduce harm, and maintain control in a system that often protects the bully.
Resources:
• StopBullyCulture.com for tools and support
• Follow Dr. Jan Kircher for updates and stories
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Includes discussion of emotional abuse, institutional betrayal, and workplace harm.
Exposing Workplace Bullying pulls back the curtain on what really happens when abuse is allowed to thrive at work.
It’s rarely obvious. It’s layered, protected by silence, and often dismissed as conflict or personality differences. That’s what makes it so hard to recognize—and even harder to stop.
This podcast dives into the complexity of workplace bullying: the power plays, the cowardice of bystanders, the complicity of HR, the executives who turn a blind eye, and how it quietly damages careers, mental health, and entire organizations.
Hosted by Dr. Jan Kircher, founder of Stop Bully Culture, each episode offers unfiltered truth and practical insight—so you can:
– Spot the systems that protect bullies (not just the bullies themselves) – Force accountability (whether you’re being bullied, a leader, or witness) – Take back your power — or use your power to change the culture
Because bullying isn’t just a problem with one person. It’s a failure of leadership.And it’s time to stop bully culture.
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