Our community garden collective makes decisions by consensus but there's one person who always has objections and everyone else just gives in to avoid conflict and now we're all quietly resentful but no one wants to be the bad guy who calls it out. The whole process has become about managing one person's reactions instead of making good decisions for the garden.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group committed to egalitarian process is discovering that their conflict avoidance allows one person to wield disproportionate power through persistent objection.
“Where Are You with Indigenous identity and land?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.