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Scenario

How to address informal power structures in consensus-based communities

We're a housing cooperative trying to make consensus decisions, but there's this unspoken thing where the people who've been here longest basically get veto power, and the newer residents are starting to check out of the process entirely.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Democratic ideals collide with the reality that informal hierarchies emerge even in spaces explicitly designed to be egalitarian.

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 Identity in old age and approaching death?”

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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