Many Voices One Song – resource page

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Many Voices One Song is the handbook about 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)

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Printables from Many Voices One Song

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Feedback form

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Feelings and needs list

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Meeting sheet

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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.
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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.
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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.

Are you ready?

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.

Sociocracy assesment

Organizational health check

For sociocratic (and almost sociocratic) organizations: How sociocratic is your organization? What is going well? Where are gaps?

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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!

This section offers a variety of documents and sample policies.

Sample circle structures

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Name: Internal and external communications

Circle: Marketing

Description: Ensure clear, timely, and consistent communication within the organization and with external audiences

Responsibilities:

  • Support the visual and written coherence of organizational messaging
  • Manage organizational newsletters, website updates, and social media presence
  • Coordiate with circles and role in publishing their showcases and updates

Guided by:

  • branding and voice policies

Hours/week: 4h

Name: Financial admin
Circle: Operations
Description: Maintain financial transparency of the organization
Responsibilities:

  • Manage payments, invoices, and reimbursements
  • Prepare and monitor budgets in collaboration with circle leads
  • Track income and expenses and produce regular financial reports
  • Ensure legal and tax compliance

Guided by: Financial policies, legal requirements, approved budgets

Hours/week: 12h

Sample aims/domains tables

Sample role descriptions

Sample policies

Meeting/minutes template

Sample sociocratic bylaws