What techniques or personal disciplines do you use to make sure that you hold yourself accountable for your moral and ethical behavior? Foucault challenges us to pay attention to the subtle ways those of us in the helping professions undercut those we claim to empower and asks us to look at our own motivations for engagement in community organizing (and, indeed, in the helping professions generally) and our attitudes toward our clientele. Look deeply into your own beliefs and motivations. Do you see community members as your equals, each with something positive to contribute to the community organizing enterprise? Do you see yourself as having something unique and irreplaceable to offer and implicitly believe that the effort would be helpless without your expertise? What kinds of people do you tend to “write off” as unlikely to make a valuable contribution? How do you differentiate internally between the self-assurance needed to provide leadership and undue pride? What changes are you prepared to make after this introspection?