The empowerment manual: a guide for collaborative groups

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A Transition Town group involved in preparations for peak oil and climate change; an intentional community, founded with the highest ideals; a nonprofit dedicated to social change—millions of such voluntary groups exist around the world. These collaborative organizations have the unique potential to harness their members' ideals, passions, skills, and knowledge—if they can succeed in getting along together. The Empowerment Manual is a comprehensive manual for groups seeking to organize with shared power and bottom-up leadership to foster vision, trust, accountability, and responsibility. This desperately needed toolkit provides keys to: *Understanding group dynamics *Facilitating communication and collective decision-making *Dealing effectively with difficult people. Drawing on four decades of experience, Starhawk shows how collaborative groups can generate the cooperation, efficacy, and commitment critical to success. Her extensiv... Content: A New Era of empowerment RootBound Ecovillage & the Talisman of Healthy Community The Circle of Vision The Axis of Action -- Power & Responsibility The Axis of Learning -- Communication & Trust Leadership Roles for Leaderless Groups Group Conflict Dealing with Difficult People Groups That Work Endnotes Index.