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How to address difficult group dynamics in spiritual communities

Our prayer group has one member who dominates every conversation and several of us are quietly frustrated but no one wants to be the person who creates conflict in what's supposed to be a sacred space. The silence is eating away at the trust we've built and I can feel people starting to withdraw.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sacred spaces can become prisons when we mistake peacekeeping for peace-making.

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