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When spiritual study groups get hijacked by personality dynamics

Our book club started as a way to dive deeper into spiritual and philosophical texts but it's become this thing where two people dominate every discussion and the rest of us just sit there and I can feel us all getting resentful but nobody wants to be the one to address it. We're supposed to be exploring wisdom together but the group dynamics are getting in the way of the actual learning.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A learning community is discovering that good intentions and meaningful content cannot overcome unexamined group dynamics.

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