Curative Culture

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Everybody knows what the phrase toxic workplace means. Nearly all of us have experienced the pain frustration and humiliation it carries. Author Douglas K. Shaw asks the question </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Why isn't there a one-word antonym for toxic?</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> He decides to name define and apply a one-word antonym for a toxic workplace culture in this hopeful book of wisdom values and humanity-filled stories.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Having grown up in the natural beauty of Washington State Shaw draws parallels between the healing attributes of nature and the core values that define a workplace where both leaders and followers can recover from the scars left by the the brambles of toxicity.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a curative culture coworkers live in relation to Imago Dei the image of God. As such every co-worker is seen as having high value first as a human being and then as a productive member of a work community. This perspective suggests that leaders and aspiring leaders must answer the question </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Do I really want my employees to succeed... even coworkers that I do not like?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Coworkers bring their own questions about their colleagues too:</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Do I trust them and their intentions?</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Do I respect them?</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Are they safe?</strong></p><p></p>