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C. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience

Passive participation is individualized and varied, promoting a variety of potential emotional responses.  This section suggests strategies for healing and actions for transforming the experience based upon emotional responses rather than categories of roles in the conflict. There are many paths to healing these injuries from passive participation in conflict. The following are merely suggestions on how one might approach healing and transforming the emotional responses.  


7. Despair

            a. Practice: give HOPE to despair

                    - Heal hurt and transform hurt by cultivating diligence with own power

                    - Open to the possibility of change in oneself and other

                    - Practice patience: accept how people are now and what is as it is

                    - Embrace your power and use it for hope no matter what the outcome


            b. Transforming Action:

                    - Mindful of self: Use power to inspire others to change just by being

                    - Mindful of others: Accept others as they are and trust capacity to change

                    - Participate in efforts that “are” the change you seek on all levels