Unless we attend to power differences, we are likely to miss the needs, perspectives, ideas, and concerns of the people with less power. Finding ways of inviting and integrating them leads to wiser and more robust solutions.
On this call, Lisa discusses strategies for attending to power differences. Participants listed all the ways they’ve seen power differences show up in meetings and practiced interrupting someone with lots of power to hear from other members of the group.
Unless we attend to power differences, we are likely to miss the needs, perspectives, ideas, and concerns of the people with less power. Finding ways of inviting and integrating them leads to wiser and more robust solutions.
In this session we will explore how to attend to power differences as CF facilitators so that real collaboration can happen at every phase of the process, resulting in a robust decision that includes all needs and truly works for all.
Unless we attend to power differences, we are likely to miss the needs, perspectives, ideas, and concerns of the people with less power. Finding ways of inviting and integrating them leads to wiser and more robust solutions.