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A poster showing major sociocracy tools
Meeting poster: meeting format
Meeting poster: consent
Meeting clip: Generating a proposal
Meeting clip: check-in round
Meeting clip: objections
Meeting clips: Consent to the agenda
Sociocracy and the brain
The story of TREE governance
Insider view into decision making in a community
BOSSAnova
A permaculture school in Sweden
Sociocracy in communities
Overcoming hierarchy
What do we do with “disruptive” behavior in meetings?
The Art of community
The perfect complimentary edge (sociocracy and permaculture)
Sociocracy and Permaculture
Meet Gerard Endenburg
Scorcher Bakery in Oregon
How to make a an agenda and a minutes sheet
Our systems are not working. Let’s try something new.
Consent. How to invite, welcome and integrate objections
Consent process: decision-making in sociocracy
Sociocracy. Governance as Equals
Dynamic Governance in intentional communities
Many Voices One Song
Non-violent communication in organizations
Heaven on Earth
What is sociocracy? (20min animated video)
Introduction articles
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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.
To decide or not to decide?
3 decisions every young organization will make. They will happen either way, either consciously with a good and inclusive system, or unconsciously with old biases kicking in. Which would you rather do?
Sociocracy a la carte?
Can one just pick and choose from sociocracy and build your own governance system? Or is it a package deal and one has to use ALL the tools?
How to design a new circle structure (for existing organizations)
This is a step-by-step guide to designing a circle structure for small and medium-sized self-governed organizations.
Everyday sociocracy
How can we use sociocracy in everyday life? How is it useful to interactions, for example, with your kids, your partners, your neighbor?
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 a human organism, so is a change in governance. Recognizing that is key to understanding pitfalls in implementing sociocracy.
Skills for a VUCA world
SoFA member Laureen Golden on skills that are needed in a VUCA world (VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity).
Sociocratic elections of a class representative
A booklet for teachers who want to try out sociocratic elections with children. By Lisa Praeg
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 Sociocracy are methodologies that help us make this transition.
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 - and only in passing did I mention that one of the basic conditions for self-determined learning is participation. In the following,...
Sociocracy and the brain
When, and why is learning fun? How can we create a meeting where everyone is addicted to learning together?
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 are running now.
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 to a consensus-run community.
BOSSAnova
Jutta Eckstein and John Buck presenting their BOSSAnova framework: a combination of agile, beyond budgeting, sociocracy, Open Space.
A permaculture school in Sweden
Andreas Jonsson is showing us around in a sociocratically run permaculture school in Sweden.
