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Sociocracy or Holacracy?
How (not) to side-track a meeting
Magic is where people get together!
The language of collaboration
Co-op principles align with Sociocracy
Why self-governance? Why self-empathy? And why now?
What matters more, product or process?
Case study: Asheville Movement Collective
R:ekobyn i Röstånga – a forming community
Biblioterre – an intentional community
Bridport Cohousing and Sociocracy
Allen Vernier: Experimenting with sociocracy in a top-down-context
Institutional support for conflict resolution
Sociocracy & Permaculture: Grow Engagement with Systems Design: John Buck
Sociocracy & Permaculture: Grow Engagement with Systems Design: John Schinnerer
Sociocracy & Permaculture: Grow Engagement with Systems Design: Henny Freitas & Rakesh Rootsman Rak
Sociocracy & Permaculture: Grow Engagement with Systems Design: Andreas Jonsson
Sociocracy & Permaculture: Grow Engagement with Systems Design: Welcome!
Roles, jobs and salaries in sociocracy
Communities: going from consensus to sociocracy
Sociocracy in forming communities
“What if people don’t cooperate?” A systemic view of meetings
Aligned and alive. Strategy in decentralized organizations
How to run an engaging board meeting
Anything that makes positive change in the world
Sociocracy – basic concepts and principles
The tragedy of the meeting: Meeting time as an example of a common pool resource
Leadership in sociocracy
The ABCDE of culture change
How could Sociocracy help us reinvent our world in a context of complexity?
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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.
How (not) to side-track a meeting
It’s easy to get lost or side-tracked in a meeting! Here’s How (not) to side-track a meeting … or at least how to find your way back pretty fast! Below is a list of typical behaviors that slow down meetings. They are common. They are wide-spread and omnipresent. Learn...
The language of collaboration
What can natural languages teach us about self-governance? Maybe governance is to collaboration what language is to communication.
Co-op principles align with Sociocracy
Sociocracy and cooperatives both share values – from the self-help and self-responsibility of organising collectively to solve problems and improve our lives, prioritising a form of deeply democratic participative governance, and supporting equality, equity and solidarity.
Why self-governance? Why self-empathy? And why now?
(written Aug 12 2020) 2020 - quite a year! As a parent, one of the most heartbreaking moments for me in these last months has been to see my kids trying to wrap their heads around the fact that grown-ups have no idea what’s going to happen. And I don’t mean 5 or 10...
What matters more, product or process?
Some people want to make progress. Some want to focus on good process. This article describes the typical mindset patterns in managing those two desires and energies.
Case study: Asheville Movement Collective
AMC is a dynamic dance community focus in Asheville. It has achieved remarkable success, acknowledged as largely due to the adoption of Sociocracy in 2009. The resulting growth in membership was well-managed; the organization was growing in responsiveness to the many pressures of the various dance communities it attracted into its membership, and it recognizes the value of encouraging diversity and building pathways to do so.
R:ekobyn i Röstånga – a forming community
R:ekobyn is a forming ecovillage in rural Sweden. R:ekobyn encourages local businesses and plans to lease part of the land to new businesses to bring back daily social life to the village, reduce the need to commute.
Biblioterre – an intentional community
Biblioterre is an intentional community that aims to offer affordable and low-impact housing, grow healthy food, create permaculture gardens, offer workshops & classes, and support initiatives that bring ecological and social benefits to the greater community. Inspired by the concept of a “land library.”, they intend to share the Land and resources with each other, nature, Indigenous communities, and the wider community.
Bridport Cohousing and Sociocracy
“What is in store for Bridport Cohousing and Sociocracy? ‘We’ll just get better at it!’ laughs Judith. ’Nobody has suggested dropping it. The opposite in fact – using Sociocracy has helped us attract new members.’”
Allen Vernier: Experimenting with sociocracy in a top-down-context
Discussion between two cultures, discussion between a subsidiary and its owner. This presentation based on a business case will deal with the opportunity for command and control companies to test sociocracy and with potential obstacles and constraints.
Institutional support for conflict resolution
What can circles and organizations do to prevent and address conflict? What is institutional support for conflict resolution? We look at tools like governance agreements, conflict resolution circles, resolution groups, and how to exclude someone from a circle.
Sociocracy & Permaculture: Grow Engagement with Systems Design: Andreas Jonsson
Andreas Jonsson presents how permaculture and sociocracy interlink and how the Folkhighschool in Holma blends both.
Roles, jobs and salaries in sociocracy
On what basis do we decide salaries in sociocracy? Is it based on the sum of all roles? But how does that work? Or are there traditional “positions” in sociocracy too?
“What if people don’t cooperate?” A systemic view of meetings
We understand difficult situations in meetings better if we take a systemic view of organizations and see incidents as indicators for the whole culture. Find a list of what’s underneath the moment you see.
