Category: Audience
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“What if people don’t cooperate with others?”
In this article, we’re going to look at how to have a systemic view of meetings (as one of the governance tools and practices we use most often in sociocracy).
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Youth Power Coalition: A Movement Organization Using Sociocracy
Jump to: What is Youth Power Coalition? Youth Power Coalition (YPC) is a coalition of youth leaders and adult allies building a movement for youth-led collective impact using sociocracy. They advocate for youth decision-making power in all spaces where decisions affecting youth are made, from school boards to city halls. Youth Power Coalition: About YPC…
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The Legal Documentation of Sociocracy
The Three Essential Documents To start a legal entity using sociocracy, it is essential to understand legal documentation. In creating an organization there are three foundational and inseparable questions that must be answered. Too often organizations are created without clarity. If you create an organization and you have not decided how decisions will be made…
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Breaking Out of the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
Sociocracy is an alternative form of governance in non-profits that supports broad participation and equity in decision-making.
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Sociocracy and Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Sociocracy and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) are often used together. For a good reason! The essence of Nonviolent Communication is “Everyone’s needs matter”. The essence of sociocracy is “Every voice matters” – sounds pretty similar, doesn’t it? In this article, I want to show how they share the same foundation and how they complement each other.…
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High Mowing School Sociocracy Implementation Case Study
Between 2012 and 2015, High Mowing School (a Waldorf boarding high school in New Hampshire) used sociocracy as a governing structure with faculty and students. The outcomes of sociocratic implementation included an increased sense of community, of faculty and students being seen, and being heard, as well as greater effectiveness in the operation of the…
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Let’s Decide Together
The definitive guidebook for practicing sociocracy with children. Children can decide with sociocracy too!
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Who Decides Who Decides
How to start a group so everyone can have a voice! “Powerful, tangible, and empowering organizing has never been more needed. Here is a gentle, stepwise guide for how to begin. Drawing on many years of experience and teaching, Ted Rau takes the mystery out of forming effective groups.” -Nathan Schneider
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Vision, Mission, and Aims in Sociocracy
Sociocracy uses vision, mission, and aims to clarify the goals of the organization and what you’re working towards as a group.
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Policy and Operations
Collaborative decision-making can be fast and efficient if we have clear guidelines what decisions are made by groups, and what decisions can simply made by a designated person in a role.
