Power mapping and analysis
Use power mapping and analysis to understand how–and by whom–power is exercised to maintain the conditions we seek to change.
Strategy Formation Using SWOT and Power Mapping Tools
Very useful two tools; a SWOT Analysis and a Power Map by Erik Peterson.
Bending the Arc Strategies
Confusion Around Power: A Challenge To Leadership By Robert Gass
How confusion around power gets in the way of being powerful and what to do about it.
Social Transformation Project
Shifting Power from the Inside Out
A framework for community-based organizations on the evolution from member-based to member-led organizational structure, culture and practice.
RoadMap
Seeing Systems
Barry Oshry’s book shows how we can transform “system blindness” into “system sight,” enabling us to live and work together in productive partnership.
Barry Oshry
Privilege, Power, and the Pull of Powerlessness
Leadership consultant, coach, trainer and author of Power: A User’s Guide, Julie Diamond’s blog centered on the effects of power.
Julie Diamond
Deep Democracy
Amy and Arnold Mindell’s work with a lot of work with power (rank) and conflict. Also this article explains the work.
Amy and Arnold Mindell
The SCOPE Power Mapping Tool
Better understand power mapping and analysis, including how to use other tools by SCOPE listed under this concept.
SCOPE
Owning Power in the Social Sector
Discover how cultural discomfort from the use of power can undermine social sector organizations’ performance and impact.
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
The Power Manual
Getting out from under dominant power relationships and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all sectors. This concise action manual explores major concepts of power, with a focus on the dynamics of domination and liberation.
Cyndi Suarez
Nonprofit Industrial Complex 101: a primer on how it upholds inequity and flattens resistance
Move toward empowered communities with using the term ‘nonprofit industrial complex’ to help you think more critically about how nonprofits operate in the world.
by Sidra Morgan-Montoya @Community-Centric Fundraising
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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