QUESTIONS
• What would you say is your Achilles heel—an area of
vulnerability that is likely to result in conflict when touched?
• What makes this your Achilles heel?
• What, specifically, feels wounded when someone touches
your Achilles heel? How does it feel?
• In what ways do you expose your Achilles heel, if you are
aware of doing so? How do you appear or act when it feels
wounded?
• If you try to hide your vulnerable point, how do you do
this?
• What do you not know about your Achilles heel?
• What helps diminish the impact on you when you sense
someone coming close to touching your Achilles heel?
How else may you respond when someone touches your
Achilles heel that shows you are well able to manage the
provocation?
• How might you strengthen your Achilles heel so that you
feel less vulnerable? How will you appear differently if you
strengthen your Achilles heel?
• What about your Achilles heel actually represents one or
more of your strengths? How will you appear differently if
you accept that your vulnerability is a strength?
• How may the knowledge that your Achilles heel represents
one or more of your strengths (your answers to the previous
questions) help you in your quest for conflict mastery?
• What else occurs to you as you consider these questions?
• What insights do you have?
