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When spiritual communities struggle with leadership transitions

Our meditation group was started by our teacher who moved away last year and now we're trying to continue without formal leadership but some people want more structure and others want complete informality and every session feels like we're negotiating instead of practicing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of guidance reveals competing visions for practice, turning spiritual space into political space.

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