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Small Steps — Introducing Sociocracy in an Established Food Co op. Alexander Davidson Carroll

The problem of numbers: How does sociocracy work for large cooperatives? Ted Rau

Beyond Fair Shares: A Sociocratic UK Cooperative Society – Nathaniel Whitestone

Analyzing the power (harmful and/or generative) dynamics in your team – Rebecca Fisher-McGinty

Introducing en route sociocratic elements to a radical worker cooperative – Orestis Varkarolis

Designing sociocratic co-op structures in the UK – Mark Simmonds

Creating the climate where Sociocratic principles can thrive. 6 months in the life of “Building OUT” – Abi Handley

Co-operative Sociocracy — making it work for your co-op – Abbie Kempson & Kate Whittle

Mehr als Wohnen — housing coop – Andreas Geiger

Sociocracy with Children and Other People

Sociocracy’s Magic Number 3

Better time management in meetings – with sociocracy

La Croisée des Chemins: A school using sociocracy

Sociocracy and Anarchism: Neither Gods nor Masters, but Systems and Structures

Bringing wisdom into today’s governance models

The first certified sociocracy trainer in Poland!

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

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
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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
Peer-to-Peer Governance in a for-profit organization
Design company. The new processes were introduced gradually.
Rocky Corner cohousing
Rocky Corner is a cohousing community being built in Bethany, Connecticut in the USA.
Another School is Possible Association
A movement striving for a childcentered, playfocused, nonprofit primary education.