Power and Empowerment

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Balancing Powers: Leadership and Followship in Community — More Perspectives on Leadership and Followship: A Response to Elizabeth Barrette — Power and Powerlessness in Community — Power and Disempowerment on the Ecobus — Call in the Experts? — The Community that Dines Together, Aligns Together

Power and Empowerment

• Publisher’s Note: Three Essential Agreements of Effective Groups by Laird Schaub
• COOPERATIVE GROUP SOLUTIONS: CALL IN THE EXPERTS? by Laird Schaub, Beatrice Briggs, Tree Bressen
• Thoughts on Power by Chris Roth
• Money, Power, and Process: How We Pulled the Plug on Consensus by Kees Kolff
• Power, Dysfunction, Community Breakdown, and Vision at EcoInstitute: A Document from the Struggle by Troy Bell
• Dancing with Discomfort: Thoughts on Empowerment from a Reluctantly Powerful Person by Kristina Jansen
• The Awesome Power of the Non-Consenting Voice by Arjuna da Silva
• The Power of Process: How WindSong Created its Community Contribution System by Andrea Welling
• Group Process: The Straw Poll that Broke the Camel’s Back by Laird Schaub
• BEING “OVERTHROWN”—A CELEBRATION: Coming to Shared Power – The founder of Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage describes what it’s like to be criticized, marginalized, stripped of leadership responsibilities, and given the opportunity to explore a new role. by Jim Schenk
• BALANCING POWERS: Leadership and Followship in Community – In a healthy community, leadership and followship are equally important roles, each with vital skill sets that can assure effective teamwork. by Elizabeth Barrette
• MORE PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP AND FOLLOWSHIP: A Response to Elizabeth Barrette – The author identifies additional leadership skills, cautions against blind followship, and reflects on the many types of power in cooperative groups. by Ma’ikwe Schaub Ludwig
• POWER AND POWERLESSNESS IN COMMUNITY – A community member transcends a feeling of powerlessness when he inadvertently comes up with a brilliant idea about how to organize cooking groups, and others join him in implementing it. by Markus Euler
• POWER AND DISEMPOWERMENT ON THE ECOBUS – Some saw this radical environmental education program as a “cult,” others as an intensely focused experience of challenge and growth. Had participants lost their individuality, or gained a new sense of self? by Chris Roth.
• Community Challenges–Bursting the Bubble: The Challenges of Progressive Community Living in the Rural South by Doug Alderson
• Community Journeys–Ad Astra per Aspera: Through Adversity to the Stars–A Community Member’s Passage to India and Back by Chelsea Cooley
• Creating Community Where You Are–Moon Valley: A Community on the Horizon? by Bob Glotzbach
• Forming Community–Affording a New Community: a Story of Persistence by Merry Hall
• CREATING COOPERATIVE CULTURE: THE COMMUNITY THAT DINES TOGETHER, ALIGNS TOGETHER by Valerie Renwick-Porter