Controlling
Assertive

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People Pleasing
Cooperative
The Power Dimension
Capacities
Need
Power
Powerless
Exile Pattern
Pattern 2
Pattern 1
Threat
Domination

Capacities

Cooperative

Able to be receptive and work well with others

Assertive

Exerting power to get what you want, protect yourself, or achieve what you think is right

 

Pattern

Behavior/Attitude

Conscious Statement

Unconscious Motivation

Powerless

Feel under someone else’s power, trapped

 

 You are in control of me.

People Pleasing

Try to be what others want, compliant, merging

I am a nice person.

If I please you, you will be care for me and not leave me.
It’s not safe to exert power.

Controlling

Dominant, competitive, demanding, pushing

I’m in charge.
Let’s do it my way.

If I am in power, then I won’t be harmed, controlled, or rejected.

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