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When group decision-making processes can't accommodate everyone's needs

Our activist collective makes decisions by consensus but there's one person whose trauma responses make them shut down or get triggered in group discussions about strategy, and we're all walking on eggshells instead of having the conversations we need to have. Nobody wants to be the one to say this isn't working.

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