Category: SoMBu

Broadcast Thursday, August 15, 2024 Rhonda Baird, Operational Leader ✏️ Circle reports Circle Reports The Infrastructure Circle met recently to review sections of the Delivery Affiliation Agreement (DAA) that involve infrastructure needs and to develop a new approach to the SoMBU. They also started planning a new membership policy. The IT team, is creating a new…

Broadcast Thursday, July 04, 2024 I spent the last two weeks of June volunteering at two courses focused on ancestral skills and survival practices. It was a joy to watch my teenage and twenty-something child explore, grow, push themselves and engage with the 50 or so other people engaging in the journey.  The first course,…

Broadcast Thursday, June 06, 2024 There is a kind of moment of stillness coming at the solstice. Whether you are in full summer or full winter or somewhere inbetween. Our Annual Conference has come and gone (and we are now working on our 8th year!). It feels that we are in a final burst of…

Broadcast Thursday, May 3, 2024 Wow. There is so much going on internally and externally with SoFA right now. Thank you to all who attended and supported “The Interrelated” – our annual conference (and 7th birthday party)! Events such as this are at the core of our mission and service in the world.  I love…

Broadcast Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Hey everyone, Just a friendly reminder about our 7th Annual Sociocracy Conference happening tomorrow! 🎉 This year’s theme is “The Interrelated Nature of Sociocracy,” where we’ll dive into how governance brings people, intentions, and actions together. Sociocracy helps us interact better, aligning our actions with our goals and fostering harmony…

Broadcast Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 Some of you may not know this, but I grew up in and live in the Ohio River Valley – a part of the Midwest in the US. There are many things I love about the land and the people here; but some aspects of the regional culture are also…

Broadcast Thursday, March 28th, 2024 Sometimes it is so very easy to forget how much good is unfolding in the world we are creating together. As working members in SoFA, you are at the heart of bringing sociocracy to our world; helping people to learn tools and practices that empower more change in our collaborative…

Broadcast Thursday, April 16, 2024 One of my passions in life is tracking. I love to track animals, of course. I love seeing the story of their life reflected in the landscape; and also how the landscape shapes their movement. I find I track other dynamic elements: the weather, climate change, plant communities, the evolution…

Broadcast Thursday, February 29th, 2024 This past six weeks or so brought me many opportunities for reflection around self-management. As some of you know I had a “surprise” major surgery in early February. Only afterward did I realize how much pain and discomfort I had been adjusting to in the weeks leading up to the…

Broadcast Thursday, February 1st, 2024 💡 Sociocratic Tips A new tool for supporting Learner organizations – input wanted! One benefit that SoFA’s Organizational Learners (OL) have access to is a compiled Health Check*, which consists of easily readable graphs that highlight sociocracy strengths and weaknesses of an organization. It’s already really fun to have one…