About a decade ago, I began learning from my spouse, Randy Kasper, the truth in the title to this blog. Randy had benefited from working with her mentor Dr. Jerry Epstein and they both learned and studied with his teacher, Colette Aboulker-Muscat (1909-2003). You may read more about these approaches on Jerry’s webpage: http://drjerryepstein.org/.
In risk management, we emphasize the need for us to recognize that “too much is too much.” This becomes evident in the obsessional pursuit of stalkers or those bent on revenge. The hashtags of #WeSaidEnough or #MeToo demonstrate from this lamenting chorus of voices that there’s been “too much” of this abusive behavior in our culture. The casting couch was long considered to be the prerogative or a benefit of those in charge, just as sex with students in college was regarded as another benefit of employment until the late 1970s.
In the fall of 2018, I had the opportunity to assemble a panel on how the understandings of harassment have changed based on social media, the me-too movement, and high-profile cases. This presentation took place at the California Association of Joint Powers Authority during their annual conference at Lake Tahoe. The moderator for the panel was Dr. Karla Rhay the Executive Director of California School’s Risk Management. In the past, I have conducted sexual harassment training for public risk management agencies with Dr. Rhay. My co-presenter was Samantha Corbin, one of the co-founders of #We Said Enough. Adama Iwu, her co-founder, was one of the Silence Breakers depicted on the cover of Time Magazine.
Ms. Samantha Corbin is a good speaker and is worth hearing if you have the opportunity. We are planning some more joint presentations that I will post about. I am working also with Jeff Ervine of