“Who does what? Who gets what? Who sets the agenda? Who decides what?”

- Srilatha Batliwala, All About Power 

We are each a powerful being. When we come together, this power blooms. It is because of this possibility of collective power that so many of our post industrial modern systems - including our organisational structures - are designed to distract, detract, and reduce our ability to form relationships and organise. Relationships take time, and time is money and our economic systems prioritise money above all else,  And yet, we find ways to come together anyways. Power, unfettered, harms us all. And yet, well-held power can liberate us too.

When imagining how power moves, we imagine an Ouroboros. An Egyptian and Greek mythological symbol of a snake eating its tail; an endless cycle of death and rebirth. Power, similarly, is both self-replicating and destructive, and expansive and emergent. We continuously cycle in these spaces, at times, to bloom, and others, to eat our own tails.