The mental and physical health struggles we face as a community—at work, at home and for our children at school—impede our potentials to find meaning and achieve agency. And these struggles are mounting:       

·Direct and indirect costs of corporate mental and physical health care are unsustainable. 

     Our children face unprecedented rates of anxiety, depression and suicide while still struggling against stigma.

·      The mere presence (let alone prevalence) of school shootings is haunting all of us. 

To combat these crises, businesses are pouring money into wellness initiatives, families are searching for resources, and schools are desperate for help. 

Unfortunately, we’re trying to intervene at the wrong time, which is not proving effective.

Current intervention protocols—corporate wellness programs, punishment at home and at school—attempt to affect change at the BEHAVE stage. 

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But by the time we get to behavior, the belief system has been programmed. That belief system stems from the way we have been treated. 

So if we want to change behavior, we need to change the belief system. And to change the belief system, we need to intervene earlier because we know that early intervention protocols save lives. So why wouldn’t early intervention at the point of how we treat each other improve our mental and physical health?

The way we treat each other has a profound impact on our thoughts, feelings and behavior.

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Today, we are being dissed more than ever. Being dissed has consequences.

Today we feel “dissed,” disrespected by each other, in person and especially online.

As a result, we feel even more disses:

·      Distrustful 

·      Disinterested

·      Distracted

·      Disengaged 

These disses add up and affect our health, productivity and engagement. But they don’t have to. By intervening at the way we TREAT each other, we can change not only our lives, but the lives of those around us. 

Because the way we treat each other has the power to change our brains.