Right Use of Power™ is a dynamic, relational approach to the ethical use of power in service of well-being, the common good, and right relationship. This extended 12-week integrated training weaves together our Basics Training, Core Training, and Power-Conscious Restorative and Integrative Practices (PCRIP) into one continuous learning journey—offering both a strong foundation and a deep, applied exploration of power in real-world contexts.
This immersive training is designed for conflict resolution practitioners (restorative justice, transformative justice, mediators, and conflict facilitators) seeking to navigate power in your conflict resolution practice with greater awareness and integrity. This program supports conflict practitioners with practical tools, embodied practices, collaborative model-making, skill-building, consciousness-raising, connected experiences, and a method for addressing power in conflict processes. We create a container for each of us to bring our whole selves to this collaborative learning environment.
Through a blend of live sessions, experiential practices, facilitated dialogue, conceptual learning, and collaborative integration, participants explore power as an internal, relational, and systemic force—learning to recognize, engage, and transform it from the inside out.
Graduates of this program receive access to an ongoing online forum and may join our Community of Practice, meeting monthly for continued support. This space offers practitioners a place to bring real-world challenges, receive coaching, and deepen their capacity to navigate power and conflict with alignment and integrity.
PCRIP is one of our specialized, advanced training programs that qualifies as a prerequisite for the Facilitator Certification program.
In This Integrated Training, You Will:
- Learn the five types of power and how they show up in relationships and systems.
- Build a strong foundation in the language, awareness, and ethics of power.
- Deepen your understanding of personal, role, systemic, and status power.
- Navigate power differentials with greater skill, presence, and responsibility.
- Explore role power, identities, and status, and how they shape connection and conflict.
- Learn the neurobiology of power and how unconscious patterns take shape.
- Work with the shadow aspects of power, including shame, harm, and reactivity.
- Strengthen your ability to engage in power-conscious feedback, including intention vs. impact.
- Deepen skills for generative, power-conscious approaches to conflict.
- Apply the Restorative Integration Pyramid in relationship building, maintenance, and repair.
- Increase awareness of emotional dynamics that influence power use.
- Learn in community through dialogue, practice, and co-created models for real-world application.
- Practice applying concepts and skills through role play, coaching, and feedback.
What Participants Often Report After This Training:
Participants frequently leave with greater confidence and clarity in navigating complexity, including the ability to:
- Engage personal power with more awareness and responsibility.
- Recognize and work skillfully with shadow dynamics in your role as a facilitator.
- Navigate feedback and conflict with greater ease and groundedness.
- Respond to relational and systemic complexity with more conscious choice.
- Be more ethically proactive in power-conscious decision-making.
- Name power dynamics in a conflict resolution/restorative/transformative/mediation process.
- Facilitate conflict-resolution processes with greater power consciousness.
Training Schedule
Each live session is paired with asynchronous modules on our online course that must be completed before each live integration session.
The live training and integration sessions are delivered with the following schedule:
*Please note that the first and last training sessions are 6 hours long while the integration sessions in the middle are only 3 hours long.
Session 1
September 9 • 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM (MT)
Welcome & Basics Training
Session 2
September 23 • 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (MT)
Modules 1: Intro to Online Course & 2: Awareness in Conflict
Session 3
October 7 • 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (MT)
Modules 3: Systemic Power & 4: Status Power
Session 4
October 21 • 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (MT)
Modules 5: Role Power & 6: Relationship Building
Session 5
November 4 • 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (MT)
Modules 7: Harm & Accountability & 8: Feedback & Communication
Session 6
November 18 • 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (MT)
Module 9: Generative Conflict
Session 7
December 2 • 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM (MT)
Module 10: Personal Power, Power-Conscious Facilitation Role Play & Closing
After the 12-Week Training: Community of Practice & Group Coaching
Graduates receive access to an ongoing online forum and may join our Community of Practice, meeting monthly for continued support. This space offers practitioners a place to bring real-world challenges, receive coaching, and deepen their capacity to navigate power and conflict with alignment and integrity.
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
The Right Use of Power Institute™ is an NBCC – Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and an ICF – Approved Continuing Education Provider. CE credits may be available for eligible participants.
An additional $20 CE documentation fee per certificate applies and can be purchased in the online shop after registration.
Cancellation/Refund Policy:
- For those who want to cancel we offer a full refund minus a $50 handling fee available up to 2 weeks before the first day of training OR
- A voucher for the full amount paid for a future training is available up to 1 week before the first day of training
- If after the first session (Welcome & Basics Training) you find that this program is not a good fit for you, we can refund you the full cost minus $250 for the Basics Training.
Questions? We’re happy to answer them!
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FACILITATORS:
Dr. Amanda Aguilera
Dr. Amanda Aguilera is the lineage holder for the Right Use of Power(TM) curriculum. She currently serves on the Right Use of Power Institute’s Board of Directors and mentors Right Use of Power facilitators. Dr. Amanda is a coach, psychotherapist, facilitator, and author specializing in social power dynamics. Her passion is finding right-relationship by supporting generative conflict, encouraging explicit conversations about power, and normalizing messing up with self-compassion. She is the author of Shaping Power for Good: Wayfinding to Right Relationship and is the founder of Sacred Wayfinding. You can find more information about Dr. Amanda here.
Liz London
Liz London (she/her) is a facilitator, trainer, coach, and consultant who centers relational and restorative approaches. Liz creates customized, interactive workshops and facilitation that focus on sustaining healthy culture, engaging in generative conflict, and working better together. She does this work with community-based organizations, youth development practitioners, labor unions, public schools, international non-profits, summer camps, universities, government employees, grassroots movements, and a wide variety of other communities and partners. She holds a Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, where she teaches Restorative Justice to undergraduate students.
Liz is based in Washington, DC and loves to travel as much as possible, cook, practice yoga, and play with her very chatty kindergartner and her very smiley toddler.
You can find more information about Liz and her practice here.
