5/22/2023 0 Comments Adrienne maree brown facilitation![]() ![]() ![]() This home must be efficient to heat, which means it can’t be too large or have too large an opening. From him, I learned about the incredible way that honeybees reach consensus about where to make their home. Honeybees living in the north temperate region require a home with enough space to: store 25-100 kg of honey (for winter heating fuel) and pollen (to feed baby bees), rear young bees after they hatch from the queen’s eggs, house the total population of tens of thousands of bees. One of my favorite science writers is Bernd Heinrich. So back to brown’s question, where does consensus happen in nature? What might we learn from nature about consensus? ![]() People want consensus to be an antidote to power, but it is not! Consensus does not require equal status it requires equal voice.Building consensus is the work of collective liberation.The history of consensus is deeply rooted in feminist and Indigenous movement work.I believe two reasons for this are that we live in a society with an unhealthy relationship to time, and with a low level of skill for collaborative group process. Autumn says these wise things about consensus: © 2013 Interaction Institute for Social Change. IISC’s Framework: “Levels of Involvement in the Decision Making Process,” above. ![]()
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