How to Master Complex Power Dynamics

Cyndi Suarez and Ruth McCambridge

December 17, 2018

Last week, NPQ hosted a conversation with our Senior Editor, Cyndi Suarez, about how we, as social change agents, can better use our power at various levels of interaction—in movements, in organizations, and in our personal lives.

Cyndi is the author of The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics. One reviewer describes her work this way:

The social movements of our day have a conflicted relationship with power, endlessly deconstructing its evils while actively yearning for it. We forget that in any conflict the tendency is to become the mirror image of your opponent. There is great confusion between the struggle for power and the quest of liberation. Cyndi has written a comprehensive operations manual for living into the tension of these distinctions and quite literally enacting our way to freedom.

Don’t miss this intimate session, well timed to help us gear up for 2019.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Cyndi Suarez is President and Editor in Chief at NPQ. She is the author of "The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics," in which she outlines a new theory and practice of power. She has worked as a strategy and innovation consultant with a focus on networks and platforms for social movements. She studied Feminist Theory and organizational development for social change.

Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is the founder and Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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