Our community garden collective makes decisions by consensus but three people always dominate the discussions and the rest of us have stopped trying to contribute meaningful input and I don't know if we can fix this dynamic or if consensus just doesn't work for us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Consensus decision-making is being undermined by informal power dynamics that silence voices while maintaining the illusion of equal participation.
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