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Scenario

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.

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.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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