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Scenario

How to address power imbalances in consensus-based community groups

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.

What we've seen

Consensus decision-making is being undermined by informal power dynamics that silence voices while maintaining the illusion of equal participation.

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Juana
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Peri

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