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SUMMARY:Free introduction: What is sociocracy?
DESCRIPTION:Are you tired of power games in your organizations? Do you have hope that collaboration in organizations could bring out the best in people? \n\n\n\nDo you think organizations could be places of synergy\, collaboration\, growth\, and deep and authentic connection? \n\n\n\nThis webinar is giving an overview of sociocracy. We will talk about: \n\n\n\n\nbetter listening\n\n\n\nconsent decision making and circle structure\n\n\n\nexamples from real life\n\n\n\n\nPresenter\n\n\n\nThis month’s introductory webinar will be taught by Shane Lapp. Shane is an Academy Level 2 student at Sociocracy for All. \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nThis event will include an introductory presentation and time for questions and answers. \n\n\n\nAccess to the webinar\n\n\n\nDidn’t get an email with the link? Check your spam folder! \n\n\n\n\nEvent time\n\n\n\n Wednesday\, Nov 4\, 2026 at 17:00 UTC / 12:00 PM EST \n\n\n\nEvent time in your time zone: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	Notice: JavaScript is required for this content.
URL:https://www.sociocracyforall.org/event/free-info-session-november-2026/
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SUMMARY:Permission to Lead: How to step up in sociocracy without power-over
DESCRIPTION:Explore how to lead\, align\, and build accountability without stepping into “power-over”\n\n\n\n\nGroups of 3+ get a 30% discount.\n\n\n\nOrganizational Learners get 25% discount on individual registrations or 47.5% discount on group registrations.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nEmail organizations@sociocracyforall.org to register your group or for questions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA class for circle leaders on how to lead and increase accountability\n\n\n\nThere is a huge misconception in shared power which is typically unconscious: the belief that “if we’re all equals\, no one can tell anyone what to do.”  \n\n\n\nPeople in leadership often find themselves in an uncomfortable double-bind. They see that if they don’t say things\, stuff doesn’t get done\, or not done in a way that’s helpful. But they worry that if they say that out loud\, people will scream “you’re doing power-over!” \n\n\n\nThere are two re-frames that get you out of that position. Because once you see it\, you notice that it is actually not about you: \n\n\n\n\nYou’re not telling anyone what to do. It’s not about what you want. We’re accountable to the organization. And the organization has things it wants to do! Strip the individualistic frame that hierarchy tries to lure you into and the shame-loop stops. \n\n\n\nAccountability isn’t to you as the “leader” – it’s to agreements we make together. \n\n\n\n\nSo much about the good news. Yet\, making agreements doesn’t mean they are magically followed. Everyone drops the ball sometimes.  \n\n\n\nSo someone needs to close the loop – and that is often also a job for leaders. And it’s uncomfortable because it feels like power-over to say “hey\, we said\, no dogs in this room. Could you take the dog somewhere else?” \n\n\n\nIn this class\, we will look at those misconceptions\, how to get out of them\, and how to rethink accountability as service to the organization.  \n\n\n\nWe will find that leadership is a function\, not a person. And that hierarchy made us believe that a lot of sub-functions – direction\, accountability\, alignment\, improvement\, performance\, care\, servitude – were held by bosses in hierarchy but don’t have to all be held by leaders in sociocracy. There is so much more room to think about things differently and do things differently! \n\n\n\nTo understand what functions to fill how\, we need to first understand what the functions are and how to make agreements\, structures and rhythms to hold them\, and how to close theo loop to make sure it happens.  \n\n\n\nYou’ll leave with: \n\n\n\n\nA map of which leadership functions your organization holds\, and which ones it doesn’t yet\n\n\n\nA way to close those gaps so it doesn’t all hinge on you\n\n\n\nAccountability mechanisms that don’t feel like power-over\n\n\n\n\nIt will be practical\, personal\, enlightening – and maybe even liberating! \n\n\n\nWho it’s for: people already practicing sociocracy in circles. \n\n\n\nFormat: 2.5 hours online\, with presentations and reflections.  \n\n\n\nAll classes include presentation\, practice\, and time for questions. \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n0:00-0:1010 min Welcome\, check-in0:10-0:4030 min Presentation: Functions in organizations0:40-1:1030 min Reflections on gaps in our own organization1:10-1:4030 min Presentation: Agreements – what to hold accountable to1:40-2:1030 min Practice and reflection on increasing accountability2:10-2:2010 min Personal next steps2:20-3:0010 min closing\n\n\n\nTrainer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTed is an advocate\, trainer and consultant for self-governance. His main focus is sociocracy. After his PhD in linguistics and work in Academia\, he co-founded the membership organization Sociocracy For All in 2016 which has grown to 250 members with several international and topic-focused departments and action teams. Ted spends his days consulting with mission-driven organizations\, teaching and deeply immersed in the work as a member within Sociocracy For All. Ted identifies as a transgender man; he has 5 children between 10 and 20. A German citizen\, he has lived in Massachusetts since 2010. He is (co)-author of three books on self-governance\, Many Voices One Song (2018)\, Who Decides Who Decides (2021)\, and Collective Power (2023) and working on a book on the interface between governance and wisdom. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nDuration and time zone\n\n\n\nDATE: November 10\, 2026 \n\n\n\nTIME: 16:30 – 19:00 UTC \n\n\n\nCHECK YOUR LOCAL TIME ZONE HERE : \n \n\n\n\nPrice and Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can request a 30% group discount for groups of 3+ people. Affordability is important to us. Please email events@sociocracyforall.org if the ticket price keeps you from attending and describe your need briefly.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister
URL:https://www.sociocracyforall.org/event/permission-to-lead/
CATEGORIES:any level,beginner,Classes,english,Performance module full,practitioner,Webinar
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