Power is pervasive and unevenly distributed; systematic and idiosyncratic. Imagine power aseverywhere shaping our collective and individual decisions about how to interact with eachother across diverse contexts. We basically know what to expect within our cultural groups andfamiliar settings. We maintain social practices by policing each other and ourselves. Now imaginethat power also pools up or thickens in some places; that some of us have more resourcesand greater influence to bring to bear in shaping singular and collective interactions. Collectively,those with greater resources and influence shape cultural practices and ideologies inways that benefit their own group and maintain greater access to resources. Now imagine all ofthis in motion with those being threatened reacting to potential and actualized power by yielding,withdrawing, navigating and/or pushing back.. . . In other words, imagine a complex web ofinfluence that is systematically designed to maintain power and access to resources of someover others but is also filled with idiosyncratic, highly nuanced power dynamics in local specificcontexts. It is this type of complexity we deal with daily in the practice of family therapy.