Author: Nicole White

Despite their training and skills, even practitioners themselves can be riddled with fear: fear of loss of status, opportunity or reputation. So they continue playing it safe, doing just enough to keep everyone comfortable but failing at influencing real change. The crucial conversations, the challenging of leadership — none of this can happen when operating in fear. This is where two approaches, traditional practitionership and grass roots approaches, can come together to increase effectiveness. One should not be seen as better than the other. In fact, this very notion brings a divisiveness that only serves to slow progress further.