Domination Techniques

1. Domination Techniques - What are they? and - How to combat them? By Jessica Schilling, SWE

2. Definition of power • Ability to influence others • Gettingthings the way we want • Structures within society • Conscious or unconsciousstrategies

3. Domination techniques as strategies • Turning somebody into a passive person • Putting down and suppressing • Keeping the power • The stronger against the weaker • Men against women

4. Where can they be used? • Politics • Organisational life • Work • Mass media • School • Educational sector • Private life

5. Why is its recognition important? It will help people to: • Become aware • Understand • Get discussions going

6. 5 Domination Techniques 1. Make invisible • Marginalising • Forgetting • Overlooking • Ignoring

7. 5 Domination Techniques 2. Ridiculing • Scorning • Making fun of • Emotionalised or sexualised • Embarrassing

8. 5 Domination Techniques 3. Withholding of information • Excluding • Networking

9. 5 Domination Techniques 4. Double Punishment • Wrong no matter what • Reinforces stereotypes and gender roles

10. 5 Domination Techniques 5. Heaping blame and putting to shame • Feelings about not being good enough • Making invisible • Ridiculing • Withholding of information • Double punishment

11. Other domination strategies • Pirating proposals • Underrating and insulting • Interrupting

12. Questions to work with: • Do these techniques apply to your life? • If yes, in what way? • How can they be combated?

13. How to combat domination techniques • Discern domination techniques at meetings, seminars, conferences etc • Publicly denounce the suppression • Confront the person(s) that use domination techniques

14. Final memorable words… ”It is the pessimist who is going to change the world… The optimist thinks that it is already perfect”