SunStar + Facilitator: “Do you want power?” Participant: “No, I want change.” Facilitator: “But how can you change anything without power?” This dialogue stuck with me until today. There is a lot of meaning associated with the word "power." From the mystical to the pragmatic, this word has captured the imagination of everyone. In this article, we will try to break down the concept of power and look at it to its specific types or forms. The word comes from the Latin term potere, which means "to be able to." German sociologist Max Weber famously described it as “the ability to exercise one’s will over others” (Weber 1922). In 1959, psychologists John French and Bertram Raven developed a framework for understanding different kinds of power.