In dealing and communicating with other people, we often fall prey to their power plays and mind games. In this presentation, learn how to start RECOGNIZING people's power plays and mind games so you can defend yourself appropriately from them, enforce your personal boundaries, and ensure you are able to protect your best interests. From the author of the Kindle books "People Games: The Ten Most Common Mind Games and Power Plays That People Play" and "Verbal Self Defense 101", both available at Amazon.com.

1. POWER PLAYS
& MIND GAMES
THE TOP 3 GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
AGAINST EACH OTHER

2. IN DEALING WITH
OTHER PEOPLE, WE
OFTEN FALL PREY TO
THEIR MIND GAMES
AND POWER PLAYS.

3. PEOPLEHAVETHREEMAJORPROBLEMSWHENDEALINGWITHPOWERPLAYSANDMINDGAMES
1. CANNOT
RECOGNIZE
3. TOO
PARANOID/
TOO POLLYANISH
2. CANNOT
RESPOND

4. WHEN IT COMES TO NOT BEING ABLE TO
RECOGNIZE POWER PLAYS AND MIND
GAMES, THE PHILOSOPHER ARTHUR
SCHOPENHAUER SAID:

5. “It would be a very good thing if every trick
could receive some short and obviously
appropriate name so that when a man uses
this or that particular trick, he could at
once be reproved for it.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer

6. P R E S E N T I N G :
P E O P L E G A M E S : T H E T E N M O S T
C O M M O N M I N D G A M E S A N D P O W E R
P L A Y S T H A T P E O P L E P L A Y
P U R C H A S E I T @ A M A Z O N . C O M

7. T O D A Y , W E W I L L I D E N T I F Y A N D
L E A R N T H E T O P T H R E E M I N D G A M E S
A N D P O W E R P L A Y S T H A T P E O P L E
P L A Y A G A I N S T E A C H O T H E R

8. 1. Dominance/Submission

9. D O M I N A N C E / S U B M I S S I O N
In this power play, one person tries to establish him or
herself as the leader (the dominant) of the relationship
and the other person as the follower (the submissive). I
don’t mean this in a Fifty Shades of Grey kind of way,
but basically one person proclaims him or herself as the
authority over the other person.

10. 2. You Can't Win

11. Y O U C A N ' T W I N
In this power play, no matter what you do, the other person
finds fault with you or your actions. This power play is a
subset of the dominance-submission power play, where
one person establishes him or herself as the arbiter of all
things correct or incorrect in the relationship.
The victim of this power play gets caught up in trying to
please or receive validation from the other person, but
because validation is never given or given out so rarely, the
victim works even harder and harder and in doing so
unwittingly establishes him/herself as the submissive in
the relationship.

12. 3. Emotional Blackmail

13. E M O T I O N A L B L A C K M A I L
Simply put, someone using this power play uses extremes,
and usually unrelated extremes, in order to compel another
person to do what he/she wants.
Instead of making requests in a straightforward and honest
way, they prey on the other person’s emotions in order to
“blackmail” them into doing something they probably don’t
want to do.

14. WANT TO LEARN MORE POWER PLAYS
AND MIND GAMES
AND HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF FROM
THEM?

15. P R E S E N T I N G :
P E O P L E G A M E S : T H E T E N M O S T
C O M M O N M I N D G A M E S A N D P O W E R
P L A Y S T H A T P E O P L E P L A Y
P U R C H A S E I T @ A M A Z O N . C O M