Hello, everyone, 

I agree with Katherine that creating the group rules (with an
understanding of what was there to start with) is a desirable leadership
quality. Too often, leaders are expected to maintain the systems in
place when they came to power rather than to create, change, grow and
adapt. I'm not sure about the necessity of mastering any group's rules.
Certainly, we need to understand what rules are in operation, but
mastery implies an acceptance of those rules as appropriate and just. I
think it is important for me to understand the rules of race and class,
for instance, but I do not have any interest in mastering those rules;
my interest is in recreating those rules so that they reflect equity and
integrity.

 

Thanks,

Karen

 

Karen Wyman

Community Outreach Trainer

New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence  (NMCADV)

201 Coal Avenue SW

Albuquerque, NM 87102

phone 505.246.9240

fax 505.246.9434

www.nmcadv.org <http://www.nmcadv.org> 

karenw at nmcadv.org

 

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