| Power | The operation of POWER within biological/embodied, coercive, legal, economic/material, ideological, social/cultural, and interpersonal environments. |
| What has happened to you? (How has POWER operated in your life?) What are your strengths? (What access to POWER resources do you have?) |
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| Threat | The THREAT that the negative use of power may pose to an individual, a group, and/or a community, with particular reference to emotional distress and how this is mediated by physiology (for example, autonomic response). |
| How did it affect you? (What kind of THREATS does this pose?) What did you have to do to cope/survive? (What kinds of THREAT RESPONSE are you using?) |
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| Meaning | The central role of MEANING in shaping our understanding, experience, and expression of power and threat, and how we respond to threat (within broader social and cultural discourses). |
| What sense did you make of it? (What is the MEANING of these situations and experiences to you?) What is your story? |
