The Power Manual

143 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h47min.
Co-op available Features in: Non-profit Quarterly Excerpts offered to: Black Scholar, Sojourners, Yes! Magazine, Tikkun; UTNE Reader; Lion's Roar Promotion on the author's website: www.cindisuarez.com Promotion in association with author's professional network including Hymarket People's Foundation; Kellogg Foundation, and Ford Foundation Promotions to BALLE and IDEO networks and other transformational networks Promotion in conjunction with the film, The New Story directed by Simon Dennis Promoted on the author's social media: Cindi Suarez on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn Academic promotion at schools focusing on social research; Yale University and UC Santa Cruz history of consciousness program Galley available on Edelweiss Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, and InstagramAuthor is a consultant who works with leaders in the non-profit, philanthropy and social movements including Black Lives Matter and Institution for Social Change She has a background in feminist theory and organizational development for social change She is the editor of Non-profit Quarterly, the leading non-profit journal The book proposed a new theory of power and how to work with it The key message is that power skills are learnable and power relationships can be transformed The author focuses on using games and theatre to investigate and learn about power transformation The activities focus on practising power and learning where power resides It explores major concepts of power with a focus on power dynamics and how to shift them It looks at the dynamics of domination and liberation and helps identify the way power is deployed The book is in four sections: identity, choice, thresholds and gamesAudience Leaders of nonprofits working for social change, social activists, business leaders, human relation managers and academics Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all sectors seeking to ignite positive change in the world.This concise action manual explores major concepts of power, with a focus on the dynamics of domination and liberation, and presents methods for shifting power relations and enacting freedom. The Power Manual:Clearly distills the major theories of power from post-modern and feminist theory to business management and developmental psychology, and beyondExamines key ways that power is deployed and transformed in societyPresents a new theory of power based on enactment-the bringing of something to life through one's actionsExplains how to refuse powerless identities and enact powerful onesHelps readers choose egalitarian interactions over dominationDemonstrates mastering the process of power expansionFeatures workshop games and group activities for identifying and shifting power relations.This accessible action manual is ideal for change agents, leaders, and activists across all nonprofit and business sectors aiming to understand, master, and shift power relations.IntroductionSection OnePOWER + IDENTITY | Refusing Powerless Identities Power + Identity Intro 1 | Effective InteractionsSupremacist Power and Liberator Power 2 | Interaction PatternsPatterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance 3 | Transmission of AffectLife-affirming and Life-draining Affects 4 | The Sources of Power RelationsDevelopmental Stages and Mind Forms 5 | Powerless and Powerful IdentitiesHegemony and Supreme Power Section TwoPOWER + CHOICE | Triggering Choice Power + Choice Intro 6 | Decision and ChoiceThe Efficient Unconscious and the Effort of Intention7 | The Social Aspects of ChoiceParticipation in Decision Making 8 | Supreme ChoiceMastery Over Inner ExperienceSection ThreePOWER + THRESHOLDS | Creating the Self Power + Thresholds Intro9 | Rites of PassageSelf Formation in Liminal Space10 | Theater as Interaction and Identity CreationHigh Status and Low Status CharactersSection FourPOWER + GAMES | Playing with Power Power + Games Intro11 | The Purpose of PlayPlay As Evolution12 | The Structure of GamesOrdering Interactions13 | The Party GameSign Reading14 | The Stand, Sit, Kneel GameDeconstruction15 | The Tongue Twister GameReconstruction 16 | The Meisner GameReconstruction17 | The Yes, But/Yes, And GameSign Reading, Deconstruction18 | The Circle GameReconstruction 19 | The Lane GameReconstruction20 | The Body Language GameSign Reading21 | The Switching GameReconstruction22 | The Status Master GameSign Reading, Deconstruction, Reconstruction 23 | The Scene Study GameDeconstruction24 | The Character Study GameReconstructionReferencesIndexAbout the AuthorA Note about the Publisher