- Nonviolence-Understanding the use of violence as a tactic of control.
- Non-threatening Behavior-Defining and understanding non-threatening behavior.
- Respect-Defining and understanding respect in interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution and how emotional abuse relates to respect and abusive control.
- Support and Trust - Defining and understanding support and trust and identifying and dealing with obstacles to trust such as jealousy, control and isolation.
- Honesty and Accountability- Defining honesty, responsibility and accountability and identifying methods used to avoid responsibility such as minimization, denial and blame.
- Sexual Respect - Understanding the link between sex, violence and coercion and defining and understanding sexual respect.
- Partnership - Developing shared responsibility, economic partnership and responsible parenting through identifying new behaviors and obstacles to partnership such as "male privilege" thinking and economic control/ abuse.
- Negotiation and Fairness - defining negotiation and fairness, developing negotiation skills, learning what and when to negotiate, and understanding coercion and threats as a control tactic.
