Periagoge
Scenario

When consensus decision-making enables manipulation

Our community garden collective makes decisions by consensus but there's this one person who always has problems with every proposal and they frame it as caring more about our principles while the rest of us think they're just being controlling. We're all committed to non-hierarchical organizing but this dynamic is paralyzing us.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group's commitment to egalitarian process is being weaponized by someone who understands how to game the system.

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 Cultural assimilation vs. preservation?”

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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