Bullying, toxic, predatory, and coercively controlling behaviours organisations and communities.

Many forms of abuse, bullying, intimidation, deceit, corruption, and manipulation have been increasingly exposed in communities we once trusted. Increasingly, laws and regulations are being created to protect populations from these behaviours. It is important that people in your organisation and community are familiar with current legislative frameworks regarding bullying and toxic behaviours and predatory and coercively controlling behaviours.

The financial, legal, and reputational risks inherent in an unaware community are high.

More crucially, it is important people feel confident to identify and address bullying and toxic and predatory and coercively controlling behaviours in your organisation and community to reduce pain and harm.


It is important that people in your organisation and community are familiar with current legislative frameworks regarding bullying and toxic behaviours and predatory and coercively controlling behaviours.

Consulting and advisory.

We provide input, feedback, and advice to organisations and communities in relation to bullying, toxic and predatory behaviours. Some of the specific advisory services we offer are included below.

  • Assist with clarification of whether a set of behaviours in an individual constitutes bullying and/or toxic and/or predatory and/or coercively controlling behaviours and propose steps an organisation or community can take to manage these behaviours.

  • Advise on how to manage individuals who have engaged in bullying, toxic, predatory, and/or coercively controlling behaviours.

  • Advise on how to support individuals who have been impacted by bullying, toxic, predatory and/or coercively controlling behaviours.

  • Create a communications program responding to bullying, toxic, predatory and/or coercively controlling behaviours.

  • Assist organisations and communities establish structures that support the prevention, early intervention, or tertiary response to these behaviours.

  • Identification of organisational and community vulnerabilities and risks regarding bullying, toxic, predatory, and coercively controlling behaviours.

  • Support organisations and communities grow their capability in preventing, identifying, and addressing these behaviours.

  • Help people understand the full set of behaviours that are considered bullying, toxic, predatory and coercively controlling.

  • Advise on and support with rebuilding cultures and dynamics damaged because of bullying, toxic, predatory and/or coercively controlling behaviours.


Training and education.

Our programs.

  • Contact the Kalmor Institute for a program outline.

  • Contact the Kalmor Institute for a program outline.

  • Contact the Kalmor Institute for a program outline.

  • Contact the Kalmor Institute for a program outline.


Coaching and on-on-one work.

We offer individual coaching and one-on-one work for people who are responsible for managing bullying, toxic and/or predatory behaviours.

We offer individual coaching and one-on-one work for those who have experienced or are currently experiencing bullying, toxic and/or predatory behaviours.

Our coaching and one-on-one work is delivered in four session programs.


Presentations and speaking engagements.

Presentations and public speaking engagement topics include:

  • Bullying: Understanding what constitutes bullying and what does not constitute bullying and how to address bullying behaviours.

  • The characteristics, motivators, and risks of toxic people in organisations and communities

  • How forensic specialists counter the DARVO approach in their interrogation process.

  • Coercive control and domestic violence – understanding motivations, behavioural patterns, and tactics.

  • Coercive control and its application across a range of communities including cults, child prostitution, domestic abuse, workplaces, parenting, and others.

  • Predators: what to look for and how to recognise them.

  • Coercive control: Understanding the definition, the impact, the tactics used as well as the shared attributes of coercive controllers and how these manifest in different contexts.