Create Powerful Meetings Instead of Power-over Meetings
Conferences that Work
JUNE 5, 2017
All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. Such events invoke a version of power Tom Atlee calls Power-over : “ the ability to control, influence, manage, dominate, destroy, or otherwise directly shape what happens to someone or something” People often tolerate this form
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