Diana & Doug Couch
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• communication
• affirmation
• community building
• trust
• conflict resolution

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Guides to Transforming Power

1. Seek to resolve conflicts by reaching common ground.
2. Be ready to revise your position if it is wrong.
3. Be willing to suffer for what is important.
4. Reach for that something good in others.
5. Listen before making judgments.
6. Use surprise and humor.
7. Be patient and persistent.
8. Base your position on truth.
9. Risk being creative rather than violent.
10. Learn to trust your inner sense of when to act.
11. Expect to experience great inward power to act.
12. Build community based on honesty, respect, and caring.