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Sociocracy & Permaculture: Grow Engagement with Systems Design: John Buck
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?
Case study: Prairie Hill Cohousing
Case study: Grobund
Case study: Børns Vilkår
VoxelGroup: Sociocracia en un “Great Place to Work®“ (Adrián Perreau)
Theory U and Sociocracy: Presencing in sociocratic circles
Integrating Sociocracy into a Political Mandate
Using Sociocracy for Decision-Making in Social Services and Medical Care
Conscious Business Assessment
Building Sociocracy into Morey Flextech High School
The “four necessary requirements” for intentional communities to use sociocracy effectively
Hierarchy, power and sociocracy
Increasing Collective Intelligence through Sociocracy
Decision-making in a Northern European Historic Perspective
Sociocracy in Schools
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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.
Aligned and alive. Strategy in decentralized organizations
How does strategy work in sociocracy? How does strategy work in a horizontal or decentralized organization? Read about a combination of bottom-up and top-down approaches that make a strategy aligned and alive.
How to run an engaging board meeting
Want a board meeting that is clear and engaging? This article offers a template that helps you prepare and run a refreshing and productive board meeting!
Anything that makes positive change in the world
Groups often struggle with basic questions: Who decides? How do we decide? Was did we decide? Was everyone heard? What it someone disagrees? Sociocracy helps.
Sociocracy – basic concepts and principles
Brief overview of sociocracy: basic concepts and principles, history, its use in organizations, its limits and differences to voting, consensus and hierarchical forms of organizing.
The tragedy of the meeting: Meeting time as an example of a common pool resource
Meeting time is lifetime shared with others. How do we share this resources well? This article highlights Prosocial’s Core Design Principles with the example of meeting time as a common pool resource and shows how sociocratic tools help share time in a collaborative way.
Leadership in sociocracy
What is leadership when it’s not command-and-control? Why are there leaders in sociocratic circles, and what do they do? How can I be a good sociocratic leader? A presentation by Ted Rau.
The ABCDE of culture change
“I remember the first time I noticed meetings there were different. It was one of those moments when you say something and then notice it is true when I heard myself say: “I am leaving the meeting more refreshed than I came, more inspired and feeling more connected to everyone in this group.” That was the moment I realized this is much bigger than just a way to make decisions. Feeling more connected and getting things done, that was new to me.”
How could Sociocracy help us reinvent our world in a context of complexity?
Never had there been so much complexity in our world, even before Corona. Running organisations was proving increasingly difficult due to the complexity they were operating under. Partly this was because the methods we were using were never designed to run organisations in complexity. Leadership in complexity requires a completely different set of tools from conventional leadership. VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) also demands a completely different mindset.
Case study: Prairie Hill Cohousing
Prairie Hill is a cohousing community on an 8-acre site in Iowa City, Iowa. It got its start in 2009, and they started construction in 2017. At this time (spring, 2020) they have built their common house and about 30 of their 36 units.
Case study: Grobund
Three years ago, in a Town named Ebeltoft people started to gather, they began having conversations within the Community, they started organising themselves and gradually formed an organisation of around 30 people.
Case study: Børns Vilkår
Børns Vilkår: based in Copenhagen, Børns Vilkår is dedicated to stopping child neglect in all its forms. They were born with this purpose in 1971 and have continued to grow and expand the way in which they support children. Currently, they run a number of services including phone line and online support, as well as working with schools and government to address the root issues.
Case study: 10pines
10Pines is a 10-year-old software development company headquartered in Argentina with agile manifesto values and a peculiar way of working at its roots. With 85 employees, 10pines has more than $3M in sales and it serves both startups and large clients such as Starbucks, Burger King, Turner, Claro, Teespring in North and South America. Due to its culture and rituals, employees at 10pines are happy and turnover is less than 5%, compared to a 25-30% average value in the industry.
