Cyndi Suarez

The Power Manual (eBook, ePUB)

How to Master Complex Power Dynamics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics

"A comprehensive operations manual for...quite literally enacting our way to freedom."- GIBRAN RIVERA, Master Facilitator

"This book is masterful. ...The handbook every person who considers themselves working to bring about a more just and compassionate world should read and carry with them throughout their journey."- CEASAR McDOWELL, Professor of the Practice of Civic Design, MIT

"An accessible yet deep exploration into the complexity of power, as well as guide to group exercises for unleashing our collective power."- PENN LOH, Senior Lecturer and Director of Community Practice, Tufts University

ALL SOCIAL RELATIONS are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all sectors seeking to ignite positive change in the world. This concise action manual explores major concepts of power, with a focus on the dynamics of domination and liberation, and presents methods for shifting power relations and enacting freedom. The Power Manual:

• Clearly distills the major theories of power from post-modern and feminist theory to business management and developmental psychology, and beyond
• Examines key ways that power is deployed and transformed in society
• Presents a new theory of power based on enactment - the bringing of something to life through one's actions
• Explains how to refuse powerless identities and enact powerful ones
• Helps readers choose egalitarian interactions over domination
• Demonstrates mastering the process of power expansion
• Features workshop games and group activities for identifying and shifting power relations.

This accessible action manual is ideal for change agents, leaders, and activists across all nonprofit and business sectors aiming to understand, master, and shift power relations.

"Think you know all about power? Think again! ...Gives practical guidance for cultivating individual consciousness and building social power."- CYNTHIA SILVA PARKER, Senior Associate, Interaction Institute for Social Change

CYNDI SUAREZ works with leaders in nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and social movements, including most recently the Movement for Black Lives and Dreamers. She has an MS in Nonprofit Management from Southern New Hampshire University, and studied Feminist Theory at the New School for Social Research. Suarez is Senior Editor at Nonprofit Quarterly, the leading nonprofit journal. She lives in Boston, MA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771422697
• Artikelnr.: 52910659

Autorenporträt

Cyndi Suarez works with leaders in nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and social movements, including most recently the Movement for Black Lives. She helps social change leaders move from struggle to flow by helping them build elegant ideas and structures. She has a MS in Nonprofit Management from Southern New Hampshire University, and studied Feminist Theory at the New School for Social Research. Suarez is Senior Editor at Nonprofit Quarterly, the leading nonprofit journal. She lives in Boston, MA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

Section One
POWER + IDENTITY Refusing Powerless Identities

Power + Identity Intro

1 Effective Interactions
Supremacist Power and Liberator Power

2 Interaction Patterns
Patterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance

3 Transmission of Affect
Life-affirming and Life-draining Affects

4 The Sources of Power Relations
Developmental Stages and Mind Forms

5 Powerless and Powerful Identities
Hegemony and Supreme Power

Section Two
POWER + CHOICE Triggering Choice

Power + Choice Intro

6 Decision and Choice
The Efficient Unconscious and the Effort of Intention

7 The Social Aspects of Choice
Participation in Decision Making

8 Supreme ChoiceMastery
Over Inner Experience

Section Three
POWER + THRESHOLDS Creating the Self

Power + Thresholds Intro

9 Rites of Passage
Self Formation in Liminal Space

10 Theater as Interaction and Identity Creation
High Status and Low Status Characters

Section Four
POWER + GAMES Playing with Power

Power + Games Intro

11 The Purpose of Play
Play As Evolution

12 The Structure of Games
Ordering Interactions

13 The Party Game
Sign Reading

14 The Stand, Sit, Kneel Game
Deconstruction

15 The Tongue Twister Game
Reconstruction

16 The Meisner Game
Reconstruction

17 The Yes, But/Yes, And Game
Sign Reading, Deconstruction

18 The Circle Game
Reconstruction

19 The Lane Game
Reconstruction

20 The Body Language Game
Sign Reading

21 The Switching Game
Reconstruction

22 The Status Master Game
Sign Reading, Deconstruction, Reconstruction

23 The Scene Study Game
Deconstruction

24 The Character Study Game
Reconstruction

References
Index
About the Author
A Note about the Publisher