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This video will support you in re-thinking and improving your governance and your collaborative relationships – especially if you’d like to unlock sociocracy’s potential to be more productive and effective.

This video about deciding together will introduce you to consent-based group decision-making and help you use it in your groups. The list of advantages of group decision-making by consent is long: it’s clear, it’s fast, it allows for innovation and learning, and it’s inclusive. And who doesn’t need to make a group decision from time…

In this video about inclusive meetings, we share the template for how to structure a meeting so everyone can be heard. The meeting format from sociocracy is flexible yet reliable, collaborative, and effective at once. One of the most transformational tools in sociocracy that helps us have inclusive meetings is rounds–the practice of speaking one…

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…
Why should nonprofits use sociocracy? Many nonprofits use sociocracy as a governing method. Sociocracy works well in mission-oriented organizations as there is a very clear path towards clarifying your vision, mission, and aims. This clarity helps drive the organization as a whole to carry out its mission more effectively. Additionally, staff members have an opportunity…

Circle Structures of Nonprofit Organizations Many nonprofit organizations choose to use sociocracy for their organizational structure. Sociocracy uses circle structures, which means an interconnected set of “circles,” or committees. Each circle has a particular domain, or area of decision-making responsibility, as well as aims, meaning particular goals. Each circle is connected by two people. The…


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Wise Democracy tools serves deliberation and input, sociocracy serves decision-making and implementation. Here’s how they can be combined.

Many of us have implemented or used sociocracy in well-established groups or projects where we have time to train people to get them up to speed. But what about for short-term projects, where we do not necessarily have so much time. Rakesh has used sociocracy in many such situations, from one-day conferences to residential training…