1.0Teresa Colanerihttps://www.teresacolaneri.com/blogTeresa Colanerihttps://www.teresacolaneri.com/blog/author//rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="h4kSLoTE7N"><a href="https://www.teresacolaneri.com/blog/the-drama-triangle/">The Drama Triangle</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.teresacolaneri.com/blog/the-drama-triangle/embed/#?secret=h4kSLoTE7N" width="600" height="338" title="“The Drama Triangle” — Teresa Colaneri" data-secret="h4kSLoTE7N" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.teresacolaneri.com/blog/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> https://www.teresacolaneri.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/july8.jpg800533The Drama Triangle is a framework used under the Courageous Leadership Platform to expand awareness around how we relate. To consistently experience business and life in an enriching and satisfying manner, learning how to successfully be in relationship with everything around us, most importantly our relationship to self, is paramount to our sense of freedom, joy and well being. In my coaching experience, to some degree, we all operate in the drama triangle until we become aware of it which then gives us new choice points. Operating from within the drama triangle, we take on different roles. There is a hero/rescuer, a persecutor/villian and a victim. These roles are interchangeable. You could initially be playing the role of rescuer and flip to playing the persecutor. Let’s apply this concept using the above email example. In this example, the emails seemingly become the persecutor with the power to make us feel overwhelmed and frustrated first thing in the morning. You, as the reader of the emails, would be starring in the role of the victim experiencing the feelings of overwhelm, frustration or perhaps powerlessness and the role of the rescuer might be any number of things from your cup of coffee […]