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Sociocracy a la carte?
Can one just pick and choose from sociocracy, or is it a package deal?
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Meeting clip: objections
Recording from a practice session on integrating objections. This is a fully improvised example.
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Sociocracy and Permaculture
A comparison of the concepts of permaculture with the concepts of sociocracy. Erin Young and John Schinnerer.
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What does S3 bring to Sociocracy? Bernhard Bockelbrinck
https://youtu.be/fPvlBW6lQc4Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: What does S3 bring to Sociocracy? Bernhard Bockelbrinck (https://youtu.be/fPvlBW6lQc4) This session is
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Deepening Our Practice of “Both/And” Thinking – Laureen Golden
https://youtu.be/HHgJD9ctM0EVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Deepening Our Practice of “Both/And” Thinking – Laureen Golden (https://youtu.be/HHgJD9ctM0E) In a
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Simple formats, first sociocratic steps to objections – Pierre Houben
How can I teach consent starting with just enough theory, invite to practice and improve after with feedback? Answering this
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Preference, range of tolerance and objection
Difference between unanimous and consent decisions
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Sociocracy and Holacracy – a comparison. Christian Rüther
What are the main differences between sociocracy and Holacracy?
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Selection process
Sociocratic selections (aka elections) are a great way to be intentional about who does what in your organization. Bonus: they
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Meeting clip: Generating a proposal
A recording of an improvised demonstration of the entire process of picture forming/ proposal shaping, consent process and integrating an
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Meet Gerard Endenburg
A webinar with the founder of sociocracy, Gerard Endenburg. Also with Annewiek Reijmer.
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Morey Flextech school
A project-based learning school that just started adopting socoicracy
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IT tools for sociocracy: Sutra
Sutra is an IT tool that supports communication in small groups (circles) and makes it easy to nest teams in
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Difference between mission circle and general circle
The mission circle keeps the organization true to its mission. The general circle keeps the organization true to its aim(s).
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Making of the agenda: past, present and future of the circle
Preparing the agenda with all aspects of the circle. Diagram from the handbook Many Voices One Song.
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Organizations as sub-circles
Organizations itself can be subcircles of a larger organization
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Process Roles
Leader, delegate, secretary and facilitators have roles that help the circle function.
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“The trouble with majority vote”
Majority rule creates winners and losers. It breaks us apart rather than bringing us together. Majority rule becomes a game.
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Unicorn Grocery coop
Unicorn is a successful worker co-op grocery in Manchester, England. Established in 1996 by a small group of people committed
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Cohousing: Pioneer Valley Coho
A sociocratic community in Massachusetts that switched over after almost 20 years of consensus.
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Residential Care Facility
This case study features a residential care facility in Vermont that has been using sociocracy for many years in combination
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Sociocracy. The operating system of the New Economy.
4 min video (introduction into sociocracy)
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What does self-governance have to do with class?
"When Dynamic Governance comes into an organization, it does bring some challenges to the existing power structure. Those who have
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IT tools for sociocracy: maptio
An IT tool to display circles and roles for self-managed organizations.
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Holma – a permaculture folk high school
A permaculture folk high school in Sweden with a full mission circle.
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A permaculture school in Sweden
Andreas Jonsson is showing us around in a sociocratically run permaculture school in Sweden.
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Consent process: decision-making in sociocracy
An explainer video on the consent process in sociocracy.
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Manifesto For Wholesome Cooperation. Sociocracy and cooperatives
Humans organize themselves in groups to reach common objectives Sociocracy and cooperativism stem from the premise that humans thrive as
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Mediagenix
MEDIAGENIX has chosen to implement their version of sociocracy (more precise S3) based principles and patterns.
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Meeting sheet from Many Voices One Song
Meeting sheet from the handbook Many Voices One Song.
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Albuqueque Cohousing
A forming community in New Mexico (USA). Note the outside consultants/stakeholders connection.
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Sociocracy and the brain
When, and why is learning fun? How can we create a meeting where everyone is addicted to learning together?
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On rounds
Using rounds helps giving everyone a voice without losing track of time. This article is a celebration of rounds!
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Storytelling of an action research – Pascale Gaillard-Mompoint
https://youtu.be/t59zHeOrYZwVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Storytelling of an action research – Pascale Gaillard-Mompoint (https://youtu.be/t59zHeOrYZw) Sociocracy in an
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The liberating effect of “good enough”
"Good enough" sounds like a low-level decision-making method. And yet, for some people, that's not how they experience it. "Only"
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Europace
Our mission is to make financing understandable and accessible for everyone. We make products comparable and the process comprehensibly, so
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An effective, fun way to understand & use feedback loops – Diana Leafe Christian
I describe what I’ve learned about the need for people new to Sociocracy to learn how feedback loops are built
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Differences & common ground. Sociocratic Circle Method – Sociocracy 3.0: James Priest
Having been a keen advocate of Sociocratic Circle Method (SCM) since 2001, in 2014 I got together with Bernhard Bockelbrink
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s3canvas.sociocracy30.org/ – Bernhard Bockelbrinck
The S3 delegation canvas is a simple format for understanding and defining domains, e.g. roles, positions, circles or teams. It
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General Circle
Leaders and delegates from the department circles, plus the leader of the general circle (from the mission circle) form the
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Aldeafeliz
Aldeafeliz is an ecovillage, an association of people with the same vision. We have been using sociocracy since 2014 and
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Feeling safe and brave: Sociocracy, neurospsychology and neuroscience – John Schinnerer
How can we feel safe while also being brave, bold, courageous? Recent research in neuroscience and neuropsychology has offered fascinating
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BOSSAnova
Jutta Eckstein and John Buck presenting their BOSSAnova framework: a combination of agile, beyond budgeting, sociocracy, Open Space.
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Dragon Dreaming (Session 1 & 2)
We need boldness and creativity to implement self-management models that create a regenerative culture with distributed power. Dragon Dreaming and
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The Holy Grail of Self-management
Still looking for the perfect governance system? Stop overthinking. Start doing. Improve from there.
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Everyday sociocracy
How can we use sociocracy in everyday life? How is it useful to interactions, for example, with your kids, your
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Mindfulness first
Mindfulness first is a nonprofit that promotes mindfulness in schools and beyond.
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Another School is Possible Association
A movement striving for a childcentered, playfocused, nonprofit primary education.
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Sociocracy and Bio-inspired Organizations – Ruth Andrade
https://youtu.be/WdJPEgthRTwVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Sociocracy and Bio-inspired Organizations – Ruth Andrade (https://youtu.be/WdJPEgthRTw) What can we learn
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Heaven on Earth
An interview with the founder of the Children's and Neighborhood parliaments in India.
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Range of tolerance overlap
Different ranges of tolerance overlap and give more room for common ground.
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Peerdom – a design company
Peerdom's aim is designing a future where technology is used as a tool for humanity, not as a weapon.
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Rocky Corner cohousing
Rocky Corner is a cohousing community being built in Bethany, Connecticut in the USA.
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Delegates to the General Circle
Delegates represent the Department Circles in the General Circle.
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What do we do with “disruptive” behavior in meetings?
Do we have to endure "disruptive" team members if we want to be inclusive? What crosses the line, and what
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Pittsfield Listens!
Pittsfield Listens Pittsfield Listens is an organization in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, that works to build community, inform on civic issues,
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Lean, Agile, Teal…. how does sociocracy fit in? – François Knuchel
Will sociocracy ever become mainstream? François believes it could, or at least the principles of sociocracy could, because it celebrates
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Skills for a VUCA world
SoFA member Laureen Golden on skills that are needed in a VUCA world (VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity).
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Sociocracy Leadership Training (the first round)
A documentary-style video with footage from our immersion training Sociocracy Leadership Training (SoLT).
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The story of TREE governance
TREE cohousing in Ithaca Ecovillage in NY in the USA tells about their governance system, how they implemented how they
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Jefferson House
Jefferson house in Charlottesville, Virginia, it is a small boutique facility built around an historic home with a warm, family
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GRL Permaculture Institute
GRLPI is dedicated to promoting permaculture professional education, practice, and mutual aid through the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois,
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Saying yes! to working and no! to stumbling blocks
What's an objection, and what do we do with it? The good news is that objections are a good thing!
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Why Sociocracy? Exploring a deeper vision together
Why Sociocracy? Exploring a deeper vision together
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Dynamic Governance in intentional communities
Why use Dynamic Governance in intentional communities? First-hand reports about the advantages.
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Sociocracy: The Movement
Curious about one of the roots of Holacracy? This overview of past and current also conveys the values and emotional
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Sociocracy tools and principles and natural systems
Tools from sociocracy, principles in sociocracy, human needs/values and characteristics of living systems
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Mindfulness and Sociocracy – Stephanie Luz Cordel
Sociocracy supports collaborative management in the nonprofit sector and is in line with many mindfulness values.
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Human emotions and their impact on decision-making Linda Cote & Rea Gill
https://youtu.be/xGmHrbFViV4Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Human emotions and their impact on decision-making – Linda Cote & Rea
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Is inclusive & saves times
A Venn diagram showing the balance of inclusivity and efficiency/effectiveness of sociocracy.
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What is sociocracy? (19min animated video)
19 min video introduction: circle structure, rounds, decision making, selection process, feedback.
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Sociocratic elections of a class representative
A booklet for teachers who want to try out sociocratic elections with children. By Lisa Praeg
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Sociocracy. Governance as Equals
Ultrashort (50 seconds) overview of sociocracy and Sociocracy For All
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Sociocracy – Top 10 Fast FAQ: John Schinnerer
An FAQ-style tour of ten top questions or issues that arise in learning and implementing sociocracy, collected & condensed from
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How decision-making affects our behavior
We don’t tend to think of decision making methods as affecting our behavior. And yet, they do, maybe even a
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ArboLife
Arbolife was founded by Morli and Marc Mathys because they wanted to take a road to better care about themselves
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How to make a an agenda and a minutes sheet
Screencast on our agenda and meeting minutes format and how to use it.
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On interpersonal feedback
No feedback, no improvement! Without hearing from others how they perceive what we do or say, we will never hear
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Scorcher Bakery in Oregon
A worker-owned bakery in Oregon that implemented sociocracy years ago.
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The 3 most typical struggles in sociocratic organizations
What makes sociocracy hard to do - and what to do about it.
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Sociocracy in communities
Governance in intentional communities (cohousing and ecovillages) - what do they struggle with? How can sociocracy (aka Dynamic Governance) be
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A Time bank in Massachusetts
Valley Time Trade is a volunteer organization that tracks hours of service offered by members to other members, referred to
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Nothing AG
We are a digital design company (for-profit) based in Switzerland. Our overall purpose is simple: we want to create products
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LOS school
LOS is a sociocratic school located in the small village of Duerne in the south of the Netherlands.
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Dreamocracy: Dragon Dreaming and Sociocracy – Tanya Stergiou
https://youtu.be/ZUxPCA1RiWUVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Dreamocracy: Dragon Dreaming and Sociocracy – Tanya Stergiou (https://youtu.be/ZUxPCA1RiWU) Presenter: Tanya Stergiou
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Sociocracy and the New Economy
We have been calling sociocracy the “operating system of the New Economy”. We say that sociocracy could be at the
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Performance reviews
Performance reviews (or "Role Improvement") are a way to give feedback to one person or each other in a space
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3 tools from sociocracy to use right away, plus magic phrases
Many organizations are intrigued by the idea of self-governance using circle-based frameworks. However, it can be intimidating to implement those
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Sociocracy and the cooperative movement – Jim Johnson
Sociocracy and cooperativism stem from the premise that humans thrive as social animals. Quite possibly, cooperation acts as our most
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Keeping meetings short
Long meetings are a pain. Let’s make them shorter. Here are the tools that sociocracy has to offer.
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The Collaboration Superpowers – No One Is Ignored With Sociocracy
What's special about Jerry Koch-Gonzalez's meetings is that they are sociocratic. How often have you been part of a call
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Non-violent communication in organizations
A webinar on NVC (non-violent communication) and its use in organization.
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Range of tolerance
An infographic on preferences, range of tolerance and objections based on the aim
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The perfect complimentary edge (sociocracy and permaculture)
An interview with Rakesh on how sociocracy and permaculture and complement each other.
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Sociocracy Handbook: Many Voices One Song
The practical sociocracy handbook written by the co-founders of Sociocracy For All. 300 pages full of real-life support!
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Strategies for integrating objections
What are the strategies to understand and integrate objections? Read about the options in this article - the more options
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Blue Scorcher Bakery
We seek out small producers and bring you their heirloom varieties of everything from apples to beans to tomatoes. Being
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There is no hierarchy in sociocracy… right?
“Is there hierarchy in sociocracy?” is a fairly common question. And since people expect me to say no, I always
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Was ist Soziokratie?
Animiertes Video mit einem guten Überblick über die Soziokratie komplett auf Deutsch!
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El Roser
We are a mix cooperative school (composed of working members and consumer members). We started working with sociocracy from the
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Cohousing: Instituto Bioregional do Cerrado
IBC’s purpose is to raise awareness and increase sustainability in bioregional communities.
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The fulfillment of basic human needs in self-managed organizations – Denis Côté
In this presentation, Denis is building a bridge between self-management practices and Self-Determination Theory in psychology. The goal is to
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Sociocracy in informal groups
How can one use sociocracy in informal, less structured groups?
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Pulse
The Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) is a community of faculty leaders in the life sciences from higher
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IT tools for sociocracy: using Sharepoint for sociocracy
How one can use sharepoint for sociocratic organizations
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We the people. Consenting to a deeper democracy (not SoFA but great!)
A book by our colleagues John Buck and Sharon Villines
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Our systems are not working. Let’s try something new.
Very short video on how everything is a system - which gives us a chance to improve things by using
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To decide or not to decide?
3 decisions every young organization will make — with intention or without
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What does sociocracy offer towards ending classism?
Webinar with Anne from ClassAction on governance and classism.
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Codento
Codento is a change agent's right hand helping with software development, IT Architectures and Agile Methodologies.
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Insider view into decision making in a community
Amy and Jana from Pioneer Valley cohousing are talking about the implementation process and how things are going in comparison
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IT tools for sociocracy: weaver
Weaver is an IT tool that was designed for sociocratic organizations.
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Consent decision making
Making decisions by consent - step by step! Everything is clear, everyone has a chance to get on board.
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You only need _________ to fix how organizations are run
What do new organizations need? Better structure, better mindset, better communication?
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Want less authoritarian structures? Not without communication skills!
There are two kinds of people I interact with: those who are convinced that better organizations make better people. And
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Integrale Tagesschule Winterthur
ITW is a non-profit private school and the main ingredients of the operating culture are Solution Focused Approach, Nonviolent Communication
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Denmark Technical University DTU
IT department of 45 people, embedded in a typical hierarchical IT organization of 190 employees, delivering IT-services and software development
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10Pines
10Pines is an Argentine Software company founded with the Agile manifesto values in mind. It is an open, participative, self-organised
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Cohousing: Cohabitat Québec
An urban sociocratic cohousing community in Quebec, Canada, that values non-violent communication.
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The myth of natural flow
Why we can’t pretend “just talking” will not be oppressive. Let's talk about structures that truly liberate us.
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Picture-forming with 6 hats – Erin Young
The Six Thinking Hats of Edward de Bono present a series of lenses to consider a situation/issue (ranging from facts,
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Consent. How to invite, welcome and integrate objections
Webinar recording on consent and objections
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Peer-to-Peer Governance in a for-profit organization
Design company. The new processes were introduced gradually.
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Intentional feedback in organizations
Making it a habit to ask for and give feedback will make every organization stronger on all levels.
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Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (not SoFA but great)
A book by our colleages John Buck and Jutta Eckstein
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The Art of community
A presentation and interview with Gregory Rouillard on his take on sociocracy.
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Non-profit: Learn To Change
Case study: Learn to change is a Non Governmental Organization that brings together a community of teachers and educators working
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Is sociocracy ‘teal’?
Many of us have been and continue to be inspired by Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux. While there is reference
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IT tools for sociocracy: peerdom
An IT tool to display roles and circles with their holders and attached descriptions.
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Sociocracy Starter kit
You want to implement sociocracy but you don't know how to go about it? This article walks you through the
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An introduction to sociocracy (Abbie Kempson)
Recorded in March 2019 at Co-operatives UK, Abbie Kempson (Unicorn Grocery, Manchester) leads the introduction to sociocracy and is joined
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IT department at DTU in Denmark
The Technical University in Denmark has an IT department that is running sociocratically.
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Narara Ecovillage
Narara Ecovillage is a sustainable community based near Sydney, Australia which is managed by the Narara Ecovillage cooperative.
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SoLaWi
Solawi Bodensee is a German association with around 90 members. Solawi is an acronym for “Solidarische Landwirtschaft” which is translated
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Sociocracy for a consultant – Simon Copsey
As a business change consultant Simon Copsey was fortunate to employ tools from Sociocracy in a few different settings, from
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Platform co-op governance: deep democracy on scale
An article about governance of (large) platform coops and the tweaks we'd have to make to use sociocracy successfully.
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Sociocracy: The Worker Co-op Operating System
Sociocracy: The Worker Co-op Operating System (By John McNamara. Originally posted on workersparadise.) Over the last couple of years, I
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Sociocracy In An Agile World – Leif Hanack and Michael Geiß
From leader to leadership. We formed a cross-functional unit out of 3 teams. Instead of autocracy or anarchy, we use
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Social Enterprise Start-ups – 5 reasons to implement sociocracy early
If you are a social enterpreneur, integrity in your decision-making will be important to you, and you're not willing to
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A facilitator’s guide to keeping meetings on track
Stop overthinking. Start doing. Improve from there.
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Common pitfalls for implementation of sociocracy
A change in governance or an organization can be compared to open-heart surgery. Just like heart surgery is invasive for
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Consent decision-making in a family meeting
Family meetings are a wonderful and easy way of giving (your) children a voice. In family meetings (just like any other time
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Understand – explore – decide
Understand, explore, decide: different forms of agenda items.
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Participatory proposal writing
Picture forming, proposal shaping and synthesis - a 3-step process to turn everyone's ideas into a good proposal!
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Decision Making through conflict
SoFA colleague Chen explaining not only feelings, needs and strategies but also the harder part - overcoming the adversarial story
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Community of eco villages: Casa Latina
Casa Latina is the Latin American part of the Global Ecovillage Network, an association of ecovillages
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Imago relationships
Imago Relationships Worldwide is a network of Imago Relationships professionals and supporters in 17 countries, with the founders and majority
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IT tools for sociocracy: holaspirit
Holaspirit helps self-managed organizations keep track their circles, roles, tensions and documents.
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Circle structure of Pioneer Valley cohousing
The circle structure of Pioneer Valley cohousing
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Pop-up sociocracy
How can you use sociocracy for a small project? How can you use it for a group that is just
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Sociocracy in Schools: The Harvest Bounty Restaurant Project: Gina Price and Jessie Barber
Jarrahdale Primary School in Western Australia used Sociocracy to produce a restaurant evening featuring food cooked by the students from
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Children’s parliaments
Presenter: Gnanasekar Dhanapal https://youtu.be/hxTUX3W7pEYVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Children’s Parliaments in India (Gnanasekar Dhanapal) (https://youtu.be/hxTUX3W7pEY)
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Overcoming hierarchy
Presentation and conversation with Gregg Kendrick, a consultant working with non-violent communication and sociocracy in workplaces.
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Permaculture, transition and sociocracy
An interview with Permacultura and Transizione, Italy. Hello Ted and Jerry, good to meet you and to have a little
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Enkindle Village School
We are a new democratic school opened in Townsville in 2019. We use a sociocratic school circle model from the
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A poster showing major sociocracy tools
The most important features on one poster - hang it up in a meeting room or bring it to presentations
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Sociocracy in schools (webinar recording)
https://youtu.be/wWlixHg-NscVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Sociocracy in schools (https://youtu.be/wWlixHg-Nsc)
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Self-determination – only with co-determination
(By Simona Zäh, Switzerland. Translated from German original) In my last blog entry, I pleaded for more self-determination in schools
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Democratic education matters
Presenter: Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard https://youtu.be/8wP030A_AtQVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard: Democratic education matters (https://youtu.be/8wP030A_AtQ)
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