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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.

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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
  • 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


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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
  • 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


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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
  • 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


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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
  • 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:
  • 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​
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View upcoming Right Use of Power™ workshops and classes on our Calendar.
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