These relational currencies, when acknowledged, respected, and activated, hold the potential to build and support satisfying, successful and highly generative systems.

Power is both a currency and a theme.

Oxford English Dictionary:

• energy that can be collected and used to operate a machine, to make electricity, etc.
• the quality of having great power or force, or of being very effective
• physical strength used in action; physical strength that somebody possesses and might use
• the ability or opportunity to do something
• a particular ability of the body or mind
• the right or authority of a person or group to do something
• the ability to control people or things

APA (American Psychological Association) Dictionary of Psychology:

The capacity to influence others, even when they try to resist this influence. 

Social power derives from a number of sources: control over rewards (reward power) and punishments or other force (coercive power); a right to require and demand obedience (legitimate power); others’ identification with, attraction to, or respect for the powerholder (referent power); others’ belief that the powerholder possesses superior skills and abilities (expert power); and the powerholder’s access to and use of informational resources (informational power).

Ethics Unwrapped - McCombs School of Business – The University of Texas at Austin:

• Values are individual beliefs that motivate people to act one way or another. They serve as a guide for human behavior.
• Generally, people are predisposed to adopt the values that they are raised with. People also tend to believe that those values are “right” because they are the values of their particular culture.
• Ethical decision-making often involves weighing values against each other and choosing which values to elevate. Conflicts can result when people have different values, leading to a clash of preferences and priorities.
• So, whether values are sacred, have intrinsic worth, or are a means to an end, values vary among individuals and across cultures and time. However, values are universally recognized as a driving force in ethical decision-making.

APA (American Psychological Association) Dictionary of Psychology:

• Is there a mutually agreed upon set of guiding values for the system to operate within?
• Is the system being challenged by a lack of alignment around or a set of conflicting values?
• Will your system benefit by establishing or re-establishing the shared set of guiding values that guide the group’s work?

Oxford English Dictionary:

• The imparting or exchanging of information or news.
• A means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.
• The successful conveying or sharing of ideas and feelings.
• lines of communication—the connections between an army in the field and its bases.

APA (American Psychological Association) Dictionary of Psychology:

• the transmission of information, which may be by verbal (oral or written) or nonverbal means (see nonverbal communication). Humans communicate to relate and exchange ideas, knowledge, feelings, and experiences and for many other interpersonal and social purposes.
• Non-verbal: the act of conveying information without the use of words. Nonverbal communication occurs through facial expressions, gestures, body language, tone of voice, and other physical indications of mood, attitude, approbation, and so forth, some of which may require knowledge of the culture or subculture to understand.
• Non-verbal behavior: actions that can indicate an individual’s attitudes or feelings without speech. Nonverbal behavior can be apparent in facial expressions, gaze direction, interpersonal distance, posture and postural changes, and gestures. It serves several functions, including providing information to other people (if they can detect and understand the signals), regulating interactions among people, and revealing the degree of intimacy between those present. Nonverbal behavior is often used synonymously with nonverbal communication, despite the fact that nonverbal actions are not always intended for, or understood by, other people.

Oxford English Dictionary:

• to work together with somebody in order to produce or achieve something
• a desire/willingness to be helpful and do as you are asked

APA (American Psychological Association) Dictionary of Psychology:

• the act or process of two or more people working together to obtain an outcome desired by all, as in collaborative care and collaborative learning.
• an interpersonal relationship in which the parties show cooperation and sensitivity to the others’ needs.

Cooperation: A process whereby two or more individuals work together toward the attainment of a mutual goal or complementary goals. This contrasts with competition, in which an individual’s actions in working toward a goal lessen the likelihood of others achieving the same goal. In game theory, cooperation is regarded as the strategy that maximizes the rewards and minimizes the costs for all participants in the game; this is sometimes posited as an explanation for altruism. Studies of nonhuman animals often suggest cooperation, but whether animals understand that individuals must act together to reach a common solution or whether they act randomly and occasionally appear to cooperate by chance is still unclear. Often cooperation leads to outcomes, such as increased food, predator avoidance, or survival of kin, that make it adaptive (see adaptation), but the benefit to each individual is not always obvious. 

Oxford English Dictionary definition:

• the ability to do something that frightens one.
• “she called on all her courage to face the ordeal.”
• strength in the face of pain or grief.
• “he fought his illness with great courage.”
• mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.

APA (American Psychological Association) Dictionary of Psychology:

• the ability to meet a difficult challenge despite the physical, psychological, or moral risks involved in doing so.
• Examples of acts of courage include saving another’s or one’s own life against a meaningful threat; coping with a painful, debilitating, or terminal illness; overcoming a destructive habit; and voicing an unpopular opinion. Also called bravery.

Merriam Webster Definition:

• competitive or opposing action of incompatibles : antagonistic state or action (as of divergent ideas, interests, or persons)
• a conflict of principles
• mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands
• His conscience was in conflict with his duty
• the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction

APA (American Psychological Association) Dictionary of Psychology:

• Conflict: the occurrence of mutually antagonistic or opposing forces, including events, behaviors, desires, attitudes, and emotions. In interpersonal relations, conflict denotes the disagreement, discord, and friction that occur when the actions or beliefs of one or more individuals are unacceptable to and resisted by others.
• Conflict Resolution: the use of collaborative, salutary methods, such as bargaining, negotiation, accommodation, and cooperation, to resolve interpersonal or intergroup disagreements.
• Conflict Repair: In relationships, repair is less about fixing what is broken, and more about getting back on track. You can attempt repair at any point in an argument, even if things get heated — but it’s best to try to repair early. Repairing is not an admission that of “rightness” or that the other has “won”. Rather, a repair attempt is an act of respect and care for the relationship. Dr. John Gottman