participatory leadership
What to do when collaboration reproduces hierarchy and inequality
There may be nothing new under the sun, but things get forgotten or go unresolved. Patterns get played out over and over again in ways we can’t see. One repeating stuck pattern I see in even the most well-meaning, collaborative circles is gender bias.
We know that gender bias takes a personal and economic toll on individuals. But gender bias has collective negative effects which mostly get ignored. Too many good ideas with the potential to move communities, organizations, entire fields forward get lost simply because they happen to come from women. Too many good ideas only get heard when they are picked up by men (who don’t always give women colleagues credit) and much gets lost in translation. All of this is compounded by race and class.
If we know this happens, one outcome is that we struggle to follow a woman’s lead when it comes to doing things differently. We struggle to move from knowledge to practice and to women-led practice.
There’s a Conversation Brewing About Power that Needs #MoreVoices
How do we practice new power behaviors at work (in our for-profit and nonprofit organizations and in the way we interact with each other)? What can women and other marginalized groups bring to this conversation that help move this conversation along so it has its greatest impact? How do we make visible work that historically has been made invisible or devalued?
Using World Café to Open Up the Conversation on Women, Activism, & Leadership
Not a panel discussion and Q&A on women’s leadership, not a wide open discussion with no structure… but a World Café: a uniquely open/structured conversation designed to invite and allow for convergence, divergence, complexity, and new clarity/actions
Why We Don’t Have to Think Alike to Work Together
So often we try to minimize, or better yet, wipe out our differences, or get people to agree with us, so that we can move forward together. But what if our desire to be on the same page is holding us back?
Authentic Leadership, Yes, But for What Purpose?
What does it mean to be real with ourselves and others in our everyday lives and at work? What does it mean to lead from an authentic place and why is even important?
Grassroots organizing meets participatory leadership
Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Kelly McGowan tell the story of how The Art of Participatory Leadership and Social change gathering (October 2011) came to be and explore the connections between social change work and participatory process. Tuesday offers a new model for social change weaving social justice and participatory process called “co-revelation.” We talk a lot […]
