A guide for groups seeking to organise with shared power and bottom-up leadership to foster vision, trust, accountability and responsibility. It provides keys to: understanding group dynamics; facilitating communication and collective decision-making; and, dealing effectively with difficult people.
A guide for groups seeking to organise with shared power and bottom-up leadership to foster vision, trust, accountability and responsibility. It provides keys to: understanding group dynamics; facilitating communication and collective decision-making; and, dealing effectively with difficult people.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
StarHawk is the author of eleven books on earth based spirituality, Goddess religion, and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing , and the award-winning Webs of Power . A highly influential voice for global justice and the environment, Starhawk is deeply committed to bringing the creative power of spirituality to political activism. She also teaches Earth Activist Trainings, intensive seminars that combine permaculture design, political organizing, and earth-based spirituality. She writes for the Newsweek/Washington Post blog On Faith as well as her own blog, Dirt Worship . Her website is www.starhawk.org.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Chapter 1: A New Era of Empowerment 1 What are collaborative groups? Why this book is needed. How the book is structured. Leading exercises and meditations. Chapter 2: RootBound Ecovillage and the Talisman of Healthy Community Introduction to our exemplary - or not so - ecovillage and its problems. Chapter 3: The Circle of Vision Finding a group vision, core values, intentions goals and governance. Chapter 4: The Axis of Action - Power and Responsibility Different kinds of power, rules and norms, earned and unearned social power, privilege and entitlement, balancing power and responsibility. Chapter 5: The Axis of Learning - Communication and Trust Communication norms, functional and dysfunctional. Basic skills for good communication in groups. Accountability and building trust. Chapter 6: Leadership Roles for Leaderless Groups Group roles and different types of leadership. How to be an empowering leader. Empowerment to the midline. Accountability. Chapter 7: Group Conflict Embracing conflict and learning to constructively disagree. Types of conflict. Strategies for mediation. Wrongdoing and due process. Chapter 8: Dealing with Difficult People What makes people "difficult?" Trauma and internalized authority. Borderline personalities and victimhood. Clashing styles and norms. Patterns of reaction. Problems too big for the group. Hidden agendas. Chapter 9: Groups that Work Examples of successful collaboration: Rainbow Grocery, a worker-owned cooperative; the 1999 Seattle Blockade of the World Trade Organization; Reclaiming, an Earth-based spiritual network. Endnotes Bibliography and References Index About the Author
Acknowledgments Chapter 1: A New Era of Empowerment 1 What are collaborative groups? Why this book is needed. How the book is structured. Leading exercises and meditations. Chapter 2: RootBound Ecovillage and the Talisman of Healthy Community Introduction to our exemplary - or not so - ecovillage and its problems. Chapter 3: The Circle of Vision Finding a group vision, core values, intentions goals and governance. Chapter 4: The Axis of Action - Power and Responsibility Different kinds of power, rules and norms, earned and unearned social power, privilege and entitlement, balancing power and responsibility. Chapter 5: The Axis of Learning - Communication and Trust Communication norms, functional and dysfunctional. Basic skills for good communication in groups. Accountability and building trust. Chapter 6: Leadership Roles for Leaderless Groups Group roles and different types of leadership. How to be an empowering leader. Empowerment to the midline. Accountability. Chapter 7: Group Conflict Embracing conflict and learning to constructively disagree. Types of conflict. Strategies for mediation. Wrongdoing and due process. Chapter 8: Dealing with Difficult People What makes people "difficult?" Trauma and internalized authority. Borderline personalities and victimhood. Clashing styles and norms. Patterns of reaction. Problems too big for the group. Hidden agendas. Chapter 9: Groups that Work Examples of successful collaboration: Rainbow Grocery, a worker-owned cooperative; the 1999 Seattle Blockade of the World Trade Organization; Reclaiming, an Earth-based spiritual network. Endnotes Bibliography and References Index About the Author
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