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- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
- Building Social Change Communities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
Skills for creating and maintaining a collective or cooperative group, especially living communities. Excellent, concise chapters on consensus decision making, facilitation and conflict resolution.
- Building United Judgement
A handbook for consensus decision making
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
Describes the techniques and skills which groups can apply to make the principles of consensus work effectively.
- A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street
The Tangled Purse Strings
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Undemocratic movements are vulnerable to being taken over by a vocal minority or a chraismatic individual.
- Clearness
Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Consensus decision-making
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
- Group Techniques For Program Planning: A Guide To Nominal And Delphi Processes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
Presents two highly adaptable methods for high involvement decision making in large groups. Some of the more "progressive" work coming out of business schools in the 1970's.
- It Ain't the Meeting Its The Motion
Resource Type: Article
A guide to conducting productive and inclusive meetings in the context of social change.
- Joining Together: Group Theory and Group Skills
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
A practical learning guide that includes both theory and activities to improve understanding and skills in subjects such as group dynamics, leadership, conflict, communication and group decision making.
- Wendy-Moore MacQueen, Author, Speaker and President of Mormac Brand Re-engineering
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- A Manual for Group Facilitators
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- No Bosses Here!
A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Article
Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- The Socialist Register 1968
Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1968
- Sources welcomes Wendy Moore-MacQueen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Wendy Moore-MacQueen, Author, Speaker and President of Mormac Brand Re-engineering.
- The Theology of Consensus
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Consensus decision-making has dominated social movements for forty years. Let’s try something different. Outside of small-group settings, consensus process is unwieldy, off-putting, tiresome, and ineffective. Many inclusive, accountable alternative methods are available for making decisions democratically. If we want to change the world, let's pick ones that work.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- Untying the Knot
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
- Worker Cooperatives in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
- Working Collectively
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A handbook for people wishing to form collectives, or established collectives seeking solutions to problems such as power imbalances, conflict meditation, and setting priorities.
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