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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
Introduction articles
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Heaven on Earth
An interview with the founder of the Children’s and Neighborhood parliaments in India.
What is sociocracy? (20min animated video)
What is sociocracy? Here is a 20-min video introduction giving an overview of how groups in sociocracy make decisions, structure their teams, and create safe and connected spaces to learn and improve.
Sociocracy in schools (webinar recording)
The 3 most typical struggles in sociocratic organizations
What makes sociocracy hard to do – and what to do about it.
How to make a proposal in sociocracy
Picture forming and proposal shaping in an example
Intentional feedback in organizations
Making it a habit to ask for and give feedback will make every organization stronger on all levels.
Performance reviews
Performance reviews (or “Role Improvement”) are a way to give feedback to one person or each other in a space of psychological safety.
On interpersonal feedback
No feedback, no improvement! Without hearing from others how they perceive what we do or say, we will never hear how we can improve. Bonus: an brief and simple introduction into NVC.
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” aiming for good enough can be a matter of respect and
How to implement sociocracy – a roadmap
You want to implement sociocracy but you don’t know how to go about it? This article walks you through the different phases and gives you a roadmap for implementation.
Participatory proposal writing
Picture forming, proposal shaping and synthesis – a 3-step process to turn everyone’s ideas into a good proposal!
Strategies for integrating objections
What are the strategies to understand and integrate objections? Read about the options in this article – the more options you are familiar with, the more relaxed you can be as a facilitator or circle member.
Consent decision making
Making decisions by consent – step by step! Everything is clear, everyone has a chance to get on board.
ArboLife
Arbolife was founded by Morli and Marc Mathys because they wanted to take a road to better care about themselves and the planet.
Sociocracy: The Movement
Curious about one of the roots of Holacracy? This overview of past and current also conveys the values and emotional flavor of this distributed-decision-making systems
