[Please note: The following outline of action steps presumes that you have already carefully considered and specified your concern, interpreted the situation of your concern adequately, and prayerfully selected and thoroughly interpreted some element of your faith tradition which addresses your concern.]

1. Use a brainstorming process to generate a list of possible interventions which would respond to your concern.

2. After evaluating the feasibility and faithfulness of each possibility, choose a “short list” of promising options.

3. After considering their relative feasibility and faithfulness, choose one from the list of options.

4. If further interpretation of situation, tradition or both is necessary before proceeding to plan your intervention, do it.

5. Develop a written plan of action steps along with a reasonable time-line for their implementation.

6. Develop a written plan for evaluating each action step as you proceed, as well as the whole intervention when it is completed. In doing so, consider how to evaluate specifically both the effectiveness and the faithfulness of your intervention.

7. Implement your intervention.

8. Evaluate your intervention.