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Many Voices One Song is the handbook on sociocracy
Many Voices One Song by SoFA co-founders Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez is the manual for sociocracy – a comprehensive manual covering all topics relevant to using sociocracy in organizations: decision-making, circle structure, meeting format and feedback.
🆕 Its companion, From Here To There, with a special focus on the implementation of sociocracy, will appear in fall 2025.
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Resources
The following resources accompany the book Many Voices One Song.
You are also invited to submit feedback to the book.
Diagrams
Diagrams from Many Voices One Song
Diagrams from From Here to There (coming soon)
Printables
from Many Voices One Song
Feedback form
Feelings and needs list
Meeting sheet
Training
Learning and onboarding
Below are the resources most commonly used to train people in an organization.
- The sociocracy primer – an on-demand mix of videos and articles that gives an overview of sociocracy within about 75min. FREE
- Empowered Learning Circles – a video-led, on-demand course for groups of 4-7 people. Train people in pods is easy to schedule. $120/group.
Professional support
Do you want to get outside support? SoFA staff supports:
- full implementation support
- get coaching hour by hour, just exactly for what you need
- designated sessions to look review your implementation path, your structure, your documents, pay or budgeting policies or your training needs.
IT tools
Display your roles and circles in an online tool – that helps track term ends, circle membership and aims/domains.
SoFA uses peerdom. Learn about other systems on our IT tool page.
Quizzes
Is sociocracy right for you?
For non-sociocratic organizations: Check the counterindications and readiness factors from the book for your organization in this quiz and see whether your organization is a good fit for sociocracy.
Organizational health check
For sociocratic (and almost sociocratic) organizations: How sociocratic is your organization? What is going well? Where are gaps?
Sociocracy Assessment
For individual learners:
Get an overview of your training level – you can also use this tool to gauge how much training your team needs, or to track your progress over time!
Circle structures and roles
This section offers a variety of documents and sample policies.
Sample circle structures
