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How to address power dynamics in social groups

Our neighborhood book club started as a fun social thing but now it's become this space where two people dominate every discussion and others barely speak, and I can see people starting to lose interest — but I don't know how to address the group dynamics without making it weird.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

We tolerate subtle dominance in social spaces until it slowly kills the thing we came together to create.

Ideas that help explain it
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