Response to (with a question): Chapter five explores leadership and power dynamics in group settings, emphasizing the importance of balancing authority with member empowerment. Social workers must navigate this tension by adopting facilitation leadership styles. This encourages participation, respect for other voices, and accountability. Effective leadership includes setting goals and boundaries while remaining flexible and responsive to group needs. Power imbalances come from social identity, communication style, or participation. To address these, social workers can use transparency, rotate leadership roles, and include input from shy students. Finding the motivation and drive for each group can be helpful. This can create the opportunity to observe more of what subjective may be sensitive, or that can be a trigger (Hessenauer and Zastrow, 2019 Establish norms that value equity and respect lower dominance and marginalization. To promote shared leadership, social workers can collaborate on agendas, encourage peer feedback, and model collaborative decision making. Integrating strength-based approaches and culturally responsive practices makes sure members feel heard and valued. Through psychological safety and collective responsibility in environments where leadership is distributed and adaptive. Balancing leadership and empowerment require intentional, humility, and commitment to ethical practice. This makes sure group processes are inclusive, there is a dynamic and is align