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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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      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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