At the root of every social issue, lies a question of power. Who has it? How is it distributed? How is it used? I've been thinking about how power can be distributed more fairly and equitably throughout society, because I believe that concentrations of power pose some of the biggest dangers to humanity. The history of the twentieth century is one of power gone amok. Since the industrial revolution, the vast increases in technological power that is at our disposal means that power in the hands of the few can become a dangerous threat to the masses. There is no bigger symbol of this threat than the atomic bomb. At the same time, powerlessness causes anomie and despair among the masses. Many social ills can be traced to feelings of powerlessness. But power in whole societies is too big a topic for me to pursue. I have preferred to explore the phenomenon of power within myself, within my own relationships to those around me, and now within the context of organisations and small groups. I believe that all life, and society as a manifestation of life, is fractal in nature, and that to understand the workings of power at a societal level, it is enough to understand it at the level of the group.