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Another example is Seeds for Change's guide to creating publicity and outreach materials (2017), which helps the reader challenge their own assumptions. Seeds for Change have also created a useful guide to facilitating inclusive meetings (2009), which describes techniques like go-rounds (going around the group and asking everyone's view in turn), active listening (splitting into pairs where each person takes turn to listen to the other for a few minutes without interrupting or
commenting), and small group discussion exercises that distribute input on decision-making more evenly across the group.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad
“vertical tension”: an awareness of the self within oneself that is haunting one’s present insufficiencies. Vertical tension is the perception that there is always something more that one is capable of, a level of self-competence that is not yet achieved and liberated, a degree of excess capacity or potential that can be tapped with the right level of focus.
Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy
Melissa Gregg
The three trajectories of domination are often in conflict. This presents a challenge for intellectual critique, social criticism, and political action that I call the paradox of emancipation.
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
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