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Scenario

How to address hierarchy in collaborative intellectual spaces

Four of us academics started meeting monthly to discuss our work-in-progress, but it's become clear that we're all at very different career stages and the power dynamics are making it impossible for the junior people to really engage authentically. The senior people dominate without realizing it, and the rest of us have started performing rather than thinking.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group designed for mutual learning has reproduced the very power structures it was meant to circumvent.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined intellectual life?”

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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