A cheat sheet for facilitators – with everything on one page!
Have you ever felt stuck in a meeting? Sociocracy offers many tools to improve meetings and get you “un-stuck!” This downloadable cheat sheet for facilitators has all of the key components in one place.

Key components in sociocratic facilitation include:
- Understand/ Explore/ Decide
- Generating a Proposal
- Consent decision-making process
- Integrating objections
- Meeting format
- Role selections
- Operational meeting agenda structure
- Checklists for complete proposals, and for forming helping circles
- Process ideas for when you get stuck in facilitation
Download the meeting facilitation cheat sheet
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Learn more about facilitation in sociocracy
Can you remember the last time you were excited during a meeting? Good meeting facilitation can make all the difference between a wonderful meeting, and a terrible one. Sociocracy offers many tools for facilitators to keep meetings clear, efficient, and effective.
Check out these resources:
- Rounds (taking turns in a circle to speak)
- Easy and clear meeting format
- For each agenda item, ask: are we trying to understand, explore, or decide?
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