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How to address dominating behavior that undermines group consensus processes

Our community garden collective makes decisions by consensus, but there's this one member who dominates every meeting and wears everyone down until they agree with him. Half of us have stopped coming to meetings, but we feel guilty about abandoning the project we all cared about so much.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group's commitment to egalitarian ideals becomes the very mechanism through which power imbalances flourish unchecked.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.