Cyndi Suarez works with leaders in nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and social movements, including most recently the Movement for Black Lives. She helps social change leaders move from struggle to flow by helping them build elegant ideas and structures. She has a MS in Nonprofit Management from Southern New Hampshire University, and studied Feminist Theory at the New School for Social Research. Suarez is Senior Editor at Nonprofit Quarterly, the leading nonprofit journal. She lives in Boston, MA.

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• IntroductionSection OnePOWER + IDENTITY | Refusing Powerless IdentitiesPower + Identity Intro 1 | Effective InteractionsSupremacist Power and Liberator Power 2 | Interaction PatternsPatterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance 3 | Transmission of AffectLife-affirming and Life-draining Affects 4 | The Sources of Power RelationsDevelopmental Stages and Mind Forms 5 | Powerless and Powerful IdentitiesHegemony and Supreme Power Section TwoPOWER + CHOICE | Triggering Choice Power + Choice Intro 6 | Decision and ChoiceThe Efficient Unconscious and the Effort of Intention7 | The Social Aspects of ChoiceParticipation in Decision Making8 | Supreme ChoiceMastery Over Inner ExperienceSection ThreePOWER + THRESHOLDS | Creating the Self Power + Thresholds Intro9 | Rites of PassageSelf Formation in Liminal Space10 | Theater as Interaction and Identity CreationHigh Status and Low Status CharactersSection FourPOWER + GAMES | Playing with Power Power + Games Intro11 | The Purpose of PlayPlay As Evolution12 | The Structure of GamesOrdering Interactions13 | The Party GameSign Reading14 | The Stand, Sit, Kneel GameDeconstruction15 | The Tongue Twister GameReconstruction 16 | The Meisner GameReconstruction17 | The Yes, But/Yes, And GameSign Reading, Deconstruction18 | The Circle GameReconstruction 19 | The Lane GameReconstruction20 | The Body Language GameSign Reading21 | The Switching GameReconstruction22 | The Status Master GameSign Reading, Deconstruction, Reconstruction 23 | The Scene Study GameDeconstruction24 | The Character Study GameReconstructionReferencesIndexAbout the AuthorA Note about the Publisher