Empowered by living freedoms

Virginia Satir recognised that each person possesses a personal power, which she thought of as an energy to be used, channelled, and directed toward constructive or destructive ends. She said that owning your own power is the beginning of your becoming a choice-maker and becoming a responsible person. Living the five freedoms is the strongest position of personal power that you can have.

I've taken Virginia Satir's five freedoms and Norm Kerth's freedoms for retrospectives and come up with a hybrid set of freedoms for collaborative, self-organising teams:

1. The freedom to perceive things as they really are.


2. The freedom to say what you think and share your feelings without fear of discrimination or retribution.


3. The freedom to ask questions, to ask for information, to ask for what you want.


4. The freedom to make decisions to do the right thing.


5. The freedom to be creative, to take risks and make mistakes.


6. The freedom to learn, to change, and to seek improvement.

Any comments or additional freedoms?

References:
[1] Virginia Satir's Making Contact
[2] Norm Kerth's Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews


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