1. Briefly summarize your dispute as you perceive it, placing events in chronological order.

2. List each issue of the dispute separately.

3. Divide issues into the following groups:

• A. Values: Biblical principles, individual freedoms.
• B. Goals: What's important to do?
• C. Resources: Money, personnel, time, etc.
• D. Pathways: How to accomplish a task. How to achieve a goal or
• practice a value.

5. Identify issues between an organization and/or between individuals.

6. Describe specifically what offended you.

7. Describe the effects of this dispute upon:

• A. Your relationship with God.
• B. Yourself.
• C. Your family.
• D. Your Finances and/or property.
• E. At work, Community, and Church.

9. What have you done that may have aggravated your dispute?

10. What will it take, in your opinion, to make each issue whole, right and corrected?

11. What should be done differently so that this won't happen again?

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