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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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Cohousing: Pioneer Valley Coho
A sociocratic community in Massachusetts that switched over after almost 20 years of consensus.
Cohousing: Cohabitat Québec
An urban sociocratic cohousing community in Quebec, Canada, that values non-violent communication.
Cooperative: Blue Scorcher
A worker-owned cooperative bakery: Blue Scorcher Bakery Scorcher bakery in Oregon (US) has been running on sociocracy since 2012. Make sure to check out the section on governance on their beautiful website! This case study is helpful if you are part of a worker coop...
For purpose: Galgael
A social enterprise giving people more opportunity.
For Profit: Europace
This case study features a for-profit in Germany This case-study is helpful if you are a for-profit Europace Inc. is a subsidiary company of Hypoport Inc. and has around 140 employees. Europace is Germany’s largest financial market place for real estate financing,...
IT Business
This case study features a worker-owned software company Outlandish (in UK) has some very helpful insights from implementing sociocracy two times. They are now a successul sociocracy. You can also read this blog post about sociocracy that our Harry from Outlandish...
Ecovillage: Hart’s Mill
Hart’s Mill Ecovillage and Farm is becoming reality, and the group is operating on sociocracy already. This case study is helpful if you are part of a group that is just starting out are interested in intentional communities (ecovillage, cohousing, or cooperative...
Family Heart Camp
This case study features set of family (summer) camps in the US that run sociocratically and live according to NVC principles. This case study is helpful if you have NVC is important to you if you’re a dispersed volunteer team The founders of the Family Heart...
Homeschool cooperative
This case study features a homeschooling cooperative in Massachusetts (USA), after just having started out using sociocracy This case study is helpful if you are a volunteer organization with very flat hierarchy at the risk of burn out would like to get an...
Residential Care Facility
This case study features a residential care facility in Vermont that has been using sociocracy for many years in combination with a holistic care approach.
The Ostrom principles and Sociocracy
Nobel prize winner Elinor Ostrom studied the successful governance of shared resources and found several principles that seem to make it work. This article compares those principles with practice from sociocracy.
Holma Folk Highschool
This case study features a large permaculture school in Sweden.
What does sociocracy offer towards ending classism?
Webinar with Anne from ClassAction on governance and classism.
Selection process
Sociocratic selections (aka elections) are a great way to be intentional about who does what in your organization. Bonus: they are fun!
Process Roles
Leader, delegate, secretary and facilitators have roles that help the circle function.
