The Power of Ted

Escape the Grip of Drama and Take Control of Your Life
The Power of TED (The Empowerment Dynamic) is a fable on self-leadership, because how you lead your own life has everything to do with how you lead in other areas. It is a tool for both individuals and organizations who want to create more effective communication and relationships. Learning how to transform everyday drama and opt for more growth-oriented solutions, is the priceless gift it teaches.
As you walk with David, the main character, he shares how he is feeling victimized by life. Through serendipity he meets some wise guides, Ted and Sophia, who show David how he can move from feeling like a Victim to being a Creator of his own life.
The Power of TED offers a powerful alternative to the Karpman Drama Triangle with its roles of Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer. The Empowerment Dynamic (TED) provides the antidote roles of Creator, Challenger and Coach and a more positive approach to life s challenges.
The teaching story provides a guide for learning and growing through the challenges we all face in our lives. Its message resonates with everyone who, at some time in their lives, feel victimized by their situation.
Having helped thousands of people and scores of organizations over the past decade, The Power of TED (*The Empowerment Dynamic) is being published in this 10th Anniversary Edition to convey a very timely message of hope that all of life, whether at home or work, can be transformed to create satisfying and fulfilling relationships.
Its message is needed now more than ever.
The 10th Anniversary Edition retains the powerful leadership story and adds three new sections:


A new Foreword by Lisa Lahey, Ed D, Harvard Graduate School of Education


New Study Questions for the Journey


A new Preface by the Author


...really smart and helpful information about...stronger, saner, and healthier ways of behaving. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
The Power of TED is an engaging story that will help you escape from the traps of victimhood and enablement! Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust and co-founder of FranklinCovey s Trust Practice
Victimhood has become, in our time, a badge, an identity, a game, an excuse for laziness, frivolous law suits, and clever domination of others. I have always taught that Jesus did the victim thing right: He neither played the victim nor created victims of others. I think David Emerald is teaching our world the same wisdom in his Empowerment Dynamic. Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., author of Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
It s no exaggeration to say that our world would be a better place if everyone read it. Lisa Lahey, Harvard Graduate School of Education; co-author, Immunity to Change, and An Everyone Culture
The Empowerment Triangle is a highly original and effective escape from the Drama Triangle. Stephen Karpman, M.D., originator of the Karpman Drama Triangle
When practical advice meets profound, yet simple, explanations for human behavior, we can learn, change, and grow. Annie McKee; co-author Becoming a Resonant Leader, Resonant Leadership, and Primal Leadership
Reading TED is like having a private session with a gifted spiritual teacher and coach: as you make this delightful journey, you awaken to powerful new possibilities. Jennifer Louden, author of Comfort Secrets of Busy Women and the Comfort Book series
This powerful little book points the way toward a hugely fulfilling life of empowering relationships at work, at home, in the whole of your life. Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. and Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., authors of Conscious Loving
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...really smart and helpful information about...stronger, saner, and healthier ways of behaving. --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
The Power of TED* is an engaging story that will help you escape from the traps of victimhood and enablement! --Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust and co-founder of FranklinCovey's Trust Practice
Victimhood has become, in our time, a badge, an identity, a game, an excuse for laziness, frivolous law suits, and clever domination of others. I have always taught that Jesus did the victim thing right: He neither played the victim nor created victims of others. I think David Emerald is teaching our world the same wisdom in his Empowerment Dynamic. --Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., author of Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
About the Author
David Emerald is a consultant, facilitator, executive coach, speaker and author. He is co-founder of the Bainbridge Leadership Center (Bainbridge Island, WA. As director of the Center's Organizational Leadership and Self Leadership practice areas, his focus is on supporting and facilitating individuals, teams, and organizations in making a conscious shift to leading and working from a vision-focused and passion-based orientation for their lives and livelihoods. David helps clients cultivate collaborative capabilities to create sustainable change and growth and to create powerful partnerships. David brings his own life experience, and 30 years of communication, leadership and organization development practice, to The Power of TED. He now makes his home on an island in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In addition to his professional work, David personally lives with the daily responsibilities of type 2 diabetes. His experience dealing with his health challenges motivated David to apply the wisdom and usefulness of his first book, The Power of TED (The Empowerment Dynamic), to diabetes as a health empowerment story. David has also authored a Companion Workbook, A Personal Guide to Applying The Power of TED. This comprehensive workbook will serve as your guide to applying the principles, mindset, and practices of The Empowerment Dynamic to your own life. It is designed for individual use and will encourage the Baby Steps by which we put TED into daily practice. Reading The Power of TED™ prior to pursuing these activities is highly recommended. This workbook can serve as a wonderful reinforcement of the principles contained in the book, enlivening your learning experience.