'POWER WITH' Introductory Workshop

Join a small group on zoom, on December 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM (Australia/Melbourne Time) for a deeper look at the power dynamics that can undermine the practice of NVC and wellbeing in this POWER WITH Introductory Workshop.

The Victim-Authority and the Sufferer-Rescuer dynamics are two inherited power struggles at the heart of the Activate Wellbeing Framework. Compassionate Communication, mourning and deep listening are practiced to connect with the qualities of transformational love that liberate our spirits from enslavement to cultural norms.

Here's what these "power identities" (separated parts of self) can look like.

1. The Victim part – Power-Under Identity

Programming says: “I’m powerless. It’s unjust”
Feels/Thinks: anxiety, righteousness, defensiveness, fear of powerlessness. Transformational love is GRATITUDE for the Grievances that support needs becoming visible, gratitude for the pain that touches the beauty of love that's been misunderstood, and gratitude for the immense power of love from where we reengage personal agency.

2. The Authority – Power-Over ‘entitled’ Identity

Programming says: “I have a right and responsibility to manage, control or insist.” Feels/Thinks: anxiety, entitlement, same 'fear of powerlessness' as the victim.
Transformational love is GENEROSITY for Grandiosity that attempts to protect and defend needs. Generosity for the one who is attempting responsibility as a self-protective expression of love.

3. The Sufferer – Power-Under Identity

Programming says: “I must carry more than my share to be accepted.” Feels/Thinks: hopelessness, loneliness, ‘choiceless self-sacrifice’ ‘the martyr’, fear of ‘unloveability’. Transformational love is DIGNITY for the Despair that attempts to express pain and suffering when ‘needs are not met’ externally. Dignity for the way "suffering" is our love leading us to our truth. Dignity for standing up again despite "the odds".

4. The Rescuer – Power-Over Identity

Programming says: “It’s up to me to be the love or solution the other requires.” Feels/Thinks: concern and fixing as a 'care language', ‘positivity masking’, ‘over-giving': taking responsibility for others, 'without consent’, same 'fear of unloveability’ as the sufferer. Transformational love is COMPASSION for Coping behaviours as an attempt to express our values and have our needs met. Compassion for the way we numb and avoid by performing as "the good person" when it's dispowering a more authentic expression of our love.

Learn More. Join us at the workshop on Tuesday December 16th. Register at the link to be sent the zoom details. Warmly, Kaz.