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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 beyond
  • Examines key ways that power is deployed and transformed in society
  • Presents a new theory of power based on enactment-the bringing of something to life through one''s actions
  • Explains how to refuse powerless identities and enact powerful ones
  • Helps read

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Section One
    POWER + IDENTITY | Refusing Powerless Identities

    Power + Identity Intro

    1 | Effective Interactions
    Supremacist Power and Liberator Power

    2 | Interaction Patterns
    Patterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance

    3 | Transmission of Affect
    Life-affirming and Life-draining Affects

    4 | The Sources of Power Relations
    Developmental Stages and Mind Forms

    5 | Powerless and Powerful Identities
    Hegemony and Supreme Power

    Section Two
    POWER + CHOICE | Triggering Choice

    Power + Choice Intro

    6 | Decision and Choice
    The Efficient Unconscious and the Effort of Intention

    7 | The Social Aspects of Choice
    Participation in Decision Making

    8 | Supreme ChoiceMastery
    Over Inner Experience

    Section Three
    POWER + THRESHOLDS | Creating the Self

    Power + Thresholds Intro

    9 | Rites of Passage
    Self Formation in Liminal Space

    10 | Theater as Interaction and Identity Creation
    High Status and Low Status Characters

    Section Four
    POWER + GAMES | Playing with Power

    Power + Games Intro

    11 | The Purpose of Play
    Play As Evolution

    12 | The Structure of Games
    Ordering Interactions

    13 | The Party Game
    Sign Reading

    14 | The Stand, Sit, Kneel Game
    Deconstruction

    15 | The Tongue Twister Game
    Reconstruction

    16 | The Meisner Game
    Reconstruction

    17 | The Yes, But/Yes, And Game
    Sign Reading, Deconstruction

    18 | The Circle Game
    Reconstruction

    19 | The Lane Game
    Reconstruction

    20 | The Body Language Game
    Sign Reading

    21 | The Switching Game
    Reconstruction

    22 | The Status Master Game
    Sign Reading, Deconstruction, Reconstruction

    23 | The Scene Study Game
    Deconstruction

    24 | The Character Study Game
    Reconstruction

    References
    Index
    About the Author
    A Note about the Publisher

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    Publisher: New Society Publishers
    Publication Date: 03/07/2018
    ISBN13: 9780865718814, 978-0865718814
    ISBN10: 865718814

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    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 beyond
    • Examines key ways that power is deployed and transformed in society
    • Presents a new theory of power based on enactment-the bringing of something to life through one''s actions
    • Explains how to refuse powerless identities and enact powerful ones
    • Helps read

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Section One
      POWER + IDENTITY | Refusing Powerless Identities

      Power + Identity Intro

      1 | Effective Interactions
      Supremacist Power and Liberator Power

      2 | Interaction Patterns
      Patterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance

      3 | Transmission of Affect
      Life-affirming and Life-draining Affects

      4 | The Sources of Power Relations
      Developmental Stages and Mind Forms

      5 | Powerless and Powerful Identities
      Hegemony and Supreme Power

      Section Two
      POWER + CHOICE | Triggering Choice

      Power + Choice Intro

      6 | Decision and Choice
      The Efficient Unconscious and the Effort of Intention

      7 | The Social Aspects of Choice
      Participation in Decision Making

      8 | Supreme ChoiceMastery
      Over Inner Experience

      Section Three
      POWER + THRESHOLDS | Creating the Self

      Power + Thresholds Intro

      9 | Rites of Passage
      Self Formation in Liminal Space

      10 | Theater as Interaction and Identity Creation
      High Status and Low Status Characters

      Section Four
      POWER + GAMES | Playing with Power

      Power + Games Intro

      11 | The Purpose of Play
      Play As Evolution

      12 | The Structure of Games
      Ordering Interactions

      13 | The Party Game
      Sign Reading

      14 | The Stand, Sit, Kneel Game
      Deconstruction

      15 | The Tongue Twister Game
      Reconstruction

      16 | The Meisner Game
      Reconstruction

      17 | The Yes, But/Yes, And Game
      Sign Reading, Deconstruction

      18 | The Circle Game
      Reconstruction

      19 | The Lane Game
      Reconstruction

      20 | The Body Language Game
      Sign Reading

      21 | The Switching Game
      Reconstruction

      22 | The Status Master Game
      Sign Reading, Deconstruction, Reconstruction

      23 | The Scene Study Game
      Deconstruction

      24 | The Character Study Game
      Reconstruction

      References
      Index
      About the Author
      A Note about the Publisher

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