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When consensus decision-making breaks down

Our community garden collective makes decisions by consensus but there's one member who consistently blocks proposals and never offers alternatives, and we're all walking on eggshells instead of addressing it directly because we don't want to seem exclusionary.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Commitment to inclusive process is being weaponized in ways that prevent actual inclusion.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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