Category: Articles
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5 Ways you’re already using restorative practices
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5 Ways you’re already using restorative practices and how to become even more restorative when using sociocracy “Don’t tell anyone else we’ve trained, but this is by far the most restorative school I’ve ever seen.” I was shocked to hear that from the restorative practices trainer who visited our school. At the time,…
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Lazy Consent: Care and Power
Consent and Lazy Consent In sociocracy, the default decision-making method is consent. Consent is clearly defined as “no objections”, and objections are defined as “a measurable concern that carrying out the proposal at hand will have a negative impact on our group’s ability to carry out our previously agreed upon aim (ie the very reason…
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Leadership without power-over – how to be a good leader in sociocracy
Leadership without hierarchy, is that possible? How can leaders empower others and move everyone towards the vision? This article describes healthy leadership in a consent-based system like sociocracy.
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Sociocracy with Children and Other People
Lessons Learned about Effective Meetings and Community Building I deeply believe that children deserve the same respect as adults, and to that end, I started a learning community where every member has a voice, and we aim to meet everyone’s needs. This alternative to school, Pathfinder, uses sociocracy as our governing process with all members…
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Sociocracy’s Magic Number 3
Sociocracy’s Magic Number 3: A Tripartite Triad Tradition Introduction It has been stated time and again that every good story has a beginning, a middle and an end. I don’t know why that is, but it seems like we find some unspoken comfort in the 3-act narrative arch. And it’s not just with storylines, we seem…
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La Croisée des Chemins: A school using sociocracy
La Croisée des Chemins, or Crossroads, is a cultural center located in Dijon as well as the first democratic free school in France. It uses #sociocracy!
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Sociocracy and Anarchism: Neither Gods nor Masters, but Systems and Structures
A little anecdote Some time ago, I was strolling down the park with a friend of mine and had briefly explained to her about sociocracy, a governance system that distributes decision-making power to decentralized, autonomous groups of people who participate in rounds as equals to deliberate and use consent to make decisions. After nodding a…
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The first certified sociocracy trainer in Poland!
From today I am officially the first certified sociocracy trainer in Poland! My little ego is proud to send this message out to the world. At the same time, what I really would like to share is the fantastic experience it was attending the Sociocracy For All Academy (SoFA) and the two-year process of obtaining…
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Sociocracy or Holacracy?
We are observers and participants of a paradigm shift in management. More and more attention is focused on dynamic governance, which slowly, but inevitably replaces the so-called traditional management, hierarchical in the power-over meaning of the word. Different names are being used to describe organizations operating under the new model.
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Better facilitation: How (not) to side-track a meeting
Here’s how not to side-track a meeting, or at least how to find your way back pretty fast with better facilitation!
