| Build perceived power | Examine how power is used |
| Stay within your side’s expertise | Know your capacity and limits |
| Increase the enemy’s insecurity | Understand the other person’s world |
| Exploit their rules | Apply principles to every side |
| Use ridicule | Refuse humiliation |
| Use enjoyable tactics | Build sustainable practices |
| Abandon stale tactics | Recognise when dialogue has ended |
| Maintain pressure | Maintain trustworthy presence |
| Use threat | Reduce unnecessary threat |
| Provoke reactions | Restore the capacity to respond |
| Use the opponent’s violence | Never provoke harm for advantage |
| Offer an alternative | Accept responsibility for what follows |
| Personalise and polarise | Name harm without freezing the person inside it |
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