Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics
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“The Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics” is a dynamic, inspiring, and relational approach to ethical awareness. In a time of treat misuse of power, it offers sound guidance for an emerging power-positive ethic that brings compassion to power. Original and engaging the approach highlights four dimensions of personal, professional and status power: Be Informed and Present, Be Compassionate and Self-aware, Be Connected and Accountable, Be Skillful and Wise. This book provides skills, self-awareness, and understanding of the gifts and perils of power.
This is a guide and resource for professional relationships. Power is defined simply as the ability to act or to have an effect. It is thus potential that can be used to exploit or harm or it can be used to heal and repair harm, promote well-being and the common good, and to evolve situations. When you say “yes” to the additional power and influence that is embedded in a position of power, you can learn to stand in your power while staying in your heart. The book envisions ethics in its largest container as the right use of power and addresses topics not usually covered in ethics education: personal power, shame, non-ordinary states, impact and intention, influence/values/diversity, leadership and power dynamics, challenges, gifts and shadow of power, and ethics as soul work and world service. The book also teaches skills needed to use power wisely and well: resolving difficulties, feedback, self-care. This is an e-book that you’ll be glad to carry with you.
Cedar Barstow
Cedar Barstow, M.Ed., C.H.T., the founding director of the Right Use of Power Institute (RUPI), Boulder, Colorado, is a Hakomi Body-Centered psychotherapist and trainer. From the ethics program she created for the Hakomi Institute, she developed a program for other helping professionals and the general public. In 2008 she published a book for helping professionals, The Right Use of Power—The Heart of Ethics. The present volume is intended for the general public, since the world would be better if more people could use their power wisely and well. Co-author Reynold Ruslan Feldman, Ph.D., is a retired university literature professor and administrator. He has also been a foundation consultant, nonprofit consultant and executive, fundraiser, editor, and tutor. The author of seven nonfiction books, he is currently working on an eight, Beyond the Three Rs—Learning the Real Basics for Living. One of RUPI’s 250 trained facilitators worldwide, he is also the Institute’s program consultant. He and Cedar married in 2010 and live in Boulder.
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