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How to address power dynamics in long-running groups

Our book club has been meeting for three years and lately it feels like the same few people dominate every discussion while others barely speak, and we keep choosing books that divide us politically instead of bringing us together. Some people want to stick to 'safer' topics, others think that's the whole problem, and I'm worried we're going to lose people either way.

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A community is facing the challenge of evolving beyond its original informal dynamics as deeper differences and patterns become impossible to ignore.

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