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Hi! My name is Sanket and I am very curious about social technologies capable of improving the individual's relationship with himself, with the people around him and also with the environment in which he is inserted. My first contact with new technologies was with the permaculture movement and Dragon Dreaming. I got to know Nonviolent Communication, I dived more and I came across Otto Scharmer's Theory U, the TEAL movement inspired by the book Reinventing the Organizations of Frederic Laloux, which even co-facilitated a study group, and then I fell in love with the tools of agile self-management (Scrum) and Sociocracy. Today I am part of the Sociocracia Brasil and Regenera collectives and I am attending Sociocracy Academy through SoFA.

Oi! Meu nome é Sanket e eu sou uma grande curiosa de tecnologias sociais capazes de melhoras as relações do indivíduo com si mesmo, com as pessoas ao seu redor e também com o meio ambiente em que está inserido. Meu primeiro contato com as novas tecnologias foi com o movimento de permacultura e o Dragon Dreaming. Conheci a Comunicação não violenta, mergulhei mais e me deparei com a Teoria U de Otto Scharmer, o movimento TEAL inspirado no livro Reinventando as Organizações de Frederic Laloux, o qual inclusive co-facilitei um grupo de estudos, e então me apaixonei pelas ferramentas de auto-gestão ágeis (Scrum) e pela Sociocracia. Hoje faço parte dos coletivos Sociocracia Brasil, Regenera e estou cursando a Sociocracy Academy pelo SoFA.

A passionate communitarian and avid systems thinker, CJ was drawn to Asheville, North Carolina by the rich Appalachian community ecosystem. Communities he participates as an organizer in include: the sociocratically governed Asheville Movement Collective ecstatic dance community, Earthaven Eco-Village, Firefly Earthskills Gathering (Board Member), Asheville Contact Improvisation community, Everland COmmunity Space, and others.

Navegando entre el activismo, la radio y la sociocracia. Me interesa principalmente llevar la autogestión al ámbito del activismo para construir movimiento sociales más fuertes y duraderos. Soy parte de Radio Nopal, una radio independiente en CDMX y hablo de resistencias sociales en el programa Defensa Personal.

Wendy is a mother, a partner, a friend, a neighbour, a midwife and an advocate for intentional community living and sociocracy! She has been hosting a weekly Wednesday night potluck dinner at her home since 2007. They are never canceled, and they even occur (in her home) when she can’t attend. Her neighbours really know each other and help each other out. She is building community one meal at a time, with close to 600 potlucks since the beginning. She is also a co-founder of a forming co-housing group in the Kitchener-Waterloo region in Ontario, Canada.

Jerry finds joy supporting effective, egalitarian organizing in service of human and planetary needs. He believes we can work together with shared meaning and purpose towards a vision of a world-wide cooperative economy that is inclusive and regenerative. Jerry does coaches and consults for individual and organizational development in the areas of governance, decision-making, and communication skills. He is a CNVC-certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication and founder of New England NVC. He has taught sociocracy since 2006. He was certified as a consultant by The Sociocracy Group in 2013 and by the International Sociocracy Certification Board (ISCB) in 2019. Jerry co-founded Sociocracy For All in 2016 with his life and work partner Ted Rau. Jerry Koch-Gonzalez was born in Cuba and moved to New York City when he was eight. Jerry describes his life as living on the bridge between middle class and working class, Latino and white, heterosexual and gay, Catholic and atheist/Buddhist. Having observed how class background affects the capacity to dream and the societal impact of wealth concentration, Jerry seeks to bridge connections among all people seeking greater equity. He currently lives with Ted and his family in the sociocratically run 29-year-old Cherry Hill Cohousing community.

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My Name is Lea Shani, I am a passionate community builder and activist, exploring new ways that we can come together, bring social change and envision the future of the society we wanna be part of.
I am a trained facilitator of the ecovillage design education, was the founding member of major community projects in Israel, was running a healing center for transformational work in Thailand and in the last two years since Covid I have been collaborating to provide a support system to women facing the pandemic of domestic violence.
I am currently a working member of SoFA, holding the roles of International circle leader and Localization guide, where I feel very lucky for the opportunity to deepen and evolve my knowledge of sociocracy through our shared experience in the “SoFA Lab” while supporting other language/local circles to spread Sociocracy in different languages and cultures.
My personal drive has been to bring Sociocracy into the Hebrew speaking world as the leader of SoFHe סופי (sociocracyforall.org/he/).

I am located in the south of Portugal, the freelance mother of 2 amazing kids, offering Sociocracy training and implementation in English, Hebrew and some Portuguese.
I am available in-person in Europe and online worldwide, welcome to contact me here (claralinda.youcanbook.me)
You could learn more about me and my work at: http://www.leashani.com

שלום , שמי ליאה שני אני המנהיגה האופרטיבית של סופי (סוציוקרטיה פעילה ישראל) מעגל דוברי העברית שפועל כחלק מהאירגון הבינלאומי סוציוקטיה לכולם , אני מנגישה חומרי לימוד, מעבירה הכשרות ומלווה תהליכי הטמעה באירגונים, אם אתם מתעניינים בסוציוקרטיה, רוצים להצטרף כחברים בסופי או צריכים ייעוץ או הכוונה , אשמח שתיצרו קשר‎‎

Natalia es cofundadora de la Asociación Agroecológica El Semillero-Chiclana, asociación de personas consumidoras y productoras, que opera de manera sociocratica desde 2016 y de la que ha sido coordinadora hasta finales de 2019. Formada en Comunicación Compasiva y Autoempatía, es miembro de Sociocracia Práctica donde apoya con la labor de difusión.

Abbie is a long-term worker co-operator and founder member of People Support Co-op. She works with co-ops and community businesses to provide practical governance and HR training and advice to place people, relationships and co-operation at the centre of their organisations. Abbie is a working member of Sociocracy for All.

Andy connected early on with SoFA. He was in the first Sociocracy Leadership Training (SoLT) and the first round of the SoFA Academy. As a resident in the same cohousing community with Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, he was also the first paid employee beyond the founders joining them at their kitchen table.

Andy is a SoFA-certified sociocracy facilitator and is actively using sociocracy to help with the formation of a community-driven food policy council and other projects.

Soy una persona consciente de que estamos en un momento de gran crisis en la humanidad. Aun así, soy optimista con el futuro, ya que creo que este solo es un estadio de la consciencia necesario para la madurez humana. Estamos en un punto de inflexión, donde mientras un sistema viejo muero uno nuevo esta emergiendo... Quiero ser parte de este nuevo mundo.

Laine Wyldling Evans is a certified facilitator based in Toledo, OH. They are a co-founder and member of a sociocratically organized intentional co-living organization and have experience working with mutual aid projects and co-operatives.

Ted spends most of his time training and consulting in sociocracy and leading SoFA as an organization. Ted is co-author of the sociocracy handbook Many Voices, One Song. He enjoys writing articles, and teaching meeting facilitation. People and their universal need to connect and move things are at the center of his attention. He pays attention to the co-housing movement, transgender rights, and non-violent communication.

Outside of SoFA work, Ted is a parent of 5, former linguist, and singer-songwriter. His first career was in Academia where he worked in syntax/semantics and pragmatics -- and the big question of what's a fact from a linguistic perspective. Within the last few years, his life has changed in big ways. He worked full time, then spent 3 years as a stay-at-home homeschooling parent, now is back to working full time again. In the same time frame, he's done his gender transition.

The training in linguistics taught Ted to find patterns that work well for the human mind, to work empirically, and break things down so they can be understood. Being a parent of 5 had taught him to be extremely pragmatic... maybe this earned him the label of being a "manifestor"; at the end of the day, dinner must be on the table no matter whether the new vision statement is done!

Publications:

Books

• Many Voices One Song. Shared power with sociocracy. Institute For Peaceable Communities. 2018. (with Jerry Koch-Gonzalez)
• Who decides who decides? How to start a group so everyone can have a voice. Institute For Peaceable Communities. 2021.

Articles (not including external and republished articles)

• Ted's articles on SoFA page
• Ted's articles on medium
• Highlighted articles:
  • The Language of Collaboration
  • What if people don't cooperate? A systemic view of meetings
  • National, regional and local chapters – expanding sociocracy
  • Sociocracy meets Listening At Scale

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Hope Wilder is the author of the book “Let’s Decide Together: Practicing sociocracy with children” and certified sociocracy facilitator. She founded the Pathfinder Community School using sociocracy with ages 5-14 (closed 2020, see presentation here.) Her private training page is hopewildertraining.com.
Hope was the Youth and Education Program Manager at SoFA, as well as the Web Content Specialist and Articles Editor from 2021-2023. She managed the Schools Community of Practice as well as the SoFA Writer's Workshop. She has written several articles on the SoFA webpage. Her peer-reviewed qualitative research paper, “Does Sociocracy Support Student Voice?” is published in the November 2022 issue of the Holistic Education Review. She enjoys playing the cello and daily walks by the Eno River in her hometown of Durham, NC, USA.

Shala (she/her) is a transformational space facilitator, holistic healing arts practitioner, and lover of music. Shala is passionate about creating sanctuaries for transformational leaders, and change-makers to activate their voices, be empowered in a rediscovery of their own unique gifts, and deepen their embodiment of co-creating a more regenerative culture for the next seven generations. Shala believes in sociocracy as a powerful tool in fostering the emergence of equitable, inclusive organizations and movements where every voice is heard and valued.

I enjoy working with people and I am amazed by all the capacities that exist within the human being. This and my confidence that we can be much happier if we move to more collaborative systems is what has always driven me to work accompanying groups and organizations in the way they are organized.
I am a certified Consultant with organizations and a Sociocracy trainer. I give training in the international online programs ProPS  (Sociocratic Deepening and Practice) and  FS  (Sociocratic Facilitation), in addition to other training and accompaniment in face-to-face and online modalities.
I am part of the Mission Circle of  Sociocracy For All, an organization for which I work and in which I coordinate the Spanish-speaking area: Sociocracia Práctica. I am also a teacher and mentor at the Academia de Sociocracia .

Disfruto trabajando con las personas y me sorprende todas las capacidades que hay dentro del ser humano. Esto y mi confianza en que podemos ser mucho más felices si transitamos a sistemas más colaborativos es lo que me ha impulsado siempre a trabajar acompañando grupos y organizaciones en la manera en la que se organizan.
Soy Consultora certificada con organizaciones y formadora de Sociocracia. Doy formaciones en los programas internacionales on line ProPS (Profundización y Práctica Sociocrática) y FS (Facilitación Sociocrática), además de otras formaciones y acompañamientos en modalidades presenciales y on line.
Soy parte del círculo de Misión de Sociocracy For All, organización para la que trabajo y en la que coordino el área hispanohablante: Sociocracia Práctica. También soy profesora y mentora en la Academia de Sociocracia.