Right Use of Power™ Core Curriculum
These dimensions are presented through talks, discussion, self-reflection, guided small group processes, and gathering group wisdom. The curriculum is based on the Right Use of Power™ Core Concepts.
DIMENSION ONE: GUIDANCE
(Direction: East)
Be Informed
• Own your power and influence.
• Understand your values and ethical guidelines.
• Know the dynamics of up-power and down-power roles.
FOCUS ON INFORMATION
(Direction: East)
Be Informed
• Own your power and influence.
• Understand your values and ethical guidelines.
• Know the dynamics of up-power and down-power roles.
FOCUS ON INFORMATION
- Reframing power as a good thing: the ability, to have an effect, and to have influence
- Differentiating role power and personal power
- Understanding the dynamics of up-power and down-power and using both positions to the highest and best
- Owning added responsibilities when in up-power roles using the 150% principle
- Gaining insights about your personal power and its impact on others
DIMENSION TWO: AWARENESS
(Direction: South)
Be Compassionate
• Engage your curiosity and history well.
• Attend to self-care
• Infuse your power with heart.
FOCUS ON SELF
(Direction: South)
Be Compassionate
• Engage your curiosity and history well.
• Attend to self-care
• Infuse your power with heart.
FOCUS ON SELF
- Discovering limiting beliefs resulting from your personal history with issues of authority and power
- Reframing and using feedback as an investment in relationship
- Working with disempowerment in Self and others
- Linking power as strength with power as heart, soul and wisdom
- Attending to multiple levels of self-care, self-awareness, and self-correcting
DIMENSION THREE: ACCOUNTABILITY
(Direction: West)
Be Connected
• Track your impact and ask for feedback.
• Stay in right relationship and use the 150% principle.
• Resolve and repair.
FOCUS ON RELATIONSHIP
(Direction: West)
Be Connected
• Track your impact and ask for feedback.
• Stay in right relationship and use the 150% principle.
• Resolve and repair.
FOCUS ON RELATIONSHIP
- Shifting conflict from trauma to opportunity
- Practicing resolving difficulties and repairing relationships
- Learning strategies for working with bosses who misuse power
- Understanding and de-activating shame so that it doesn’t impair relationships
- Responding non-defensively when impact and intention don't match
DIMENSION FOUR: EMPOWERMENT
(Direction: North)
Be Skillfull
• Think pro-actively.
• Stay present and in The Power Zone.
• Use your up and down-power leadership well.
FOCUS ON WISDOM
(Direction: North)
Be Skillfull
• Think pro-actively.
• Stay present and in The Power Zone.
• Use your up and down-power leadership well.
FOCUS ON WISDOM
- Responding constructively and pro-actively to power challenges
- Applying the socially intelligent model of power
- Knowing and using the four aspects of the power spiral
- Increasing effectiveness by expanding one’s range of comfort with the power parameters
- Exploring four leadership power styles
ADVANCED and SPECIALIZED TOPICS
Depending upon the focus and length of the program you choose, you will increase your awareness and skill in these areas:
Depending upon the focus and length of the program you choose, you will increase your awareness and skill in these areas:
- Ethical codes and guidelines
- Contemporary ethics issues
- Everyday ethical decision-making
- Common ethical errors
- Grievance processes
- Transference
- Supervision and referrals
- Diversity issues
- Values and influence
- Apology and forgiveness
- De-escalation of conflict
- Boundary styles and boundary development
- Conscious and ethical use of touch
- Non-ordinary states of consciousness
- Multiple role relationships
- Social engagement nervous system
- Barriers to and resources for empowerment
- Systemic power dynamics
- Power paradox and the shadow of power
- Ethics as soul work
