[The group worker, a tool of power or Shh! Don't wake James Dean.].
To aid an individual or a group to express agressivity and to re-channel it <<constructively>> runs the risk of being a repressive and de-mobilizing intervention. All behaviour has political and social causes which those in power have an interest in evading. To say that one is apolitical and non-directive when one has a role of authority, is to protect the social status quo. To refuse to integrate the notion of power into one's intervention, is to work to the profit of those in power and to the detriment of the dominated. We, as intervention agents, have the power to define the rules of individual or social change. To hide this renders this power unchallengeable. In the face of the potential for repression inherent in all values of the dominant, I propose tolerance of confusion, the destabilization of leadership, and the learning of power mobility.
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