10 questions for systems under stress.

Home is where your lowest resting heart-rate is.

Dysfunctional workplaces, families, governments, and lifeboats sink when those inside them are under systemic stress. If the people in the system feel unsafe, the system will be dismantled by their stresses.

1: Who makes the rules here?
Laws that do not stress everyone equally = systemic stress

2: Who might harm others?
Belonging that is not consistently available = systemic stress

3: Who can say what?
Frequent and unkind verbal jousting = systemic stress

4: Who should hide and how often?
Nonverbal threats = systemic stress

5: Who is waiting to attack?
Constant vigilance required = systemic stress

6: Who feels powerful at the expense of the others?
Normalization of cruelty = systemic stress

7: Who gets to throw the tantrums?
Being forced to choose sides to avoid punishment = systemic stress

8: Who is accustomed to the violence?
Numbness to horror = systemic stress

9: Who will be allowed to take over?
Absence of hope = systemic stress

10: Who shall be blamed?
Identities that become crimes = systemic stress