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Tending a Living Course – A collective showcase on a decade of shaping sociocracy training using sociocracy
Description
Empowering people with a foundational capacity to understand and start meaningfully practicing sociocracy is an art. Helping people realize and experience how leadership can genuinely be distributed is often best served through an ‘lived’ experience of doing.
The Sociocracy Consulting Group (TSCG) have been traversing this terrain – providing foundational training in the Sociocratic Circle-organization Method (SCM) for the past decade. Our 5-person international collective delivers a 6-session online course that effectively and dynamically establishes the early learner for a healthy and robust practice of distributed leadership.
Through use of SCM concepts to design the training, a ‘living’ course has been developed – one that adapts and grows to maintain relevance and coherence for the learner in an online learning environment. It equally includes all voices of our collective to meaningfully shape how the training is provided.
This showcase presents the five voices of TSCG to share our collective experience of working together to shape this living training as a microcosm of sociocracy in action.
The showcase offers conference participants insight into maintaining the relevance and impact of a collectively run course through iterative feedback processes. It also offers inspiration for rigorous SCM practice in building responsive, adaptive and effective culture from a team that has been working together for over a decade.
Bio
John Schinnerer / John is a whole systems design consultant, teacher, and facilitator for cultural and ecological systems for a variety of public, private, and nonprofit clients. The methods, tools and techniques that John offers invite clients to maximize clarity, honesty, and integrity while also enhancing individual and group efficiency and effectiveness – in other words, to get things done and have more fun! He helps organizations recognize that success for people who want to accomplish something together is determined by how well they work, play, and make decisions together.
Gina Price / Co-founder of The Sociocracy Consulting Group, Gina brings beauty, harmony and wisdom when working with schools, communities and businesses. Weaving life experiences as a polar scientist, homeschooling mother and organisation consultant, her practise is well grounded. She is Executive Director of Earth Funerals, holds a PhD in atmospheric physics, and is an ISCB certified sociocracy consultant.
Erin Young / Erin Young uses nature wisdom to activate leaders and organisations with balance, creativity and collaboration to create a more beautiful world. She works with individuals in life and leadership coaching based on the design principles of social permaculture. She also helps organisations to be adaptive, responsive and effective by consulting in collaborative decision-making and governance, based in sociocracy. Facilitation, training and mediation are equally stocked in her skills toolkit. Erin is based near Eumundi on the Sunshine Coast, South East Queensland, Australia.
Francine Proulx-Kenzle / Two basic values radiate through Francine’s engagement and contribution: service and connection. Since her certification as a sociocratic organizational consultant in 2011, Francine has trained a variety of individuals and supported sociocracy implementation in the educational and non-profit sectors, in both French and English. A seasoned facilitator, Francine’s approach is enriched with the integration of various learnings including interest-based negotiation, appreciative inquiry, emotional intelligence, psychological safety and first aid for mental health, all framed with common sense.
Sheella Mierson / Sheella helps individuals and organizations design structures, processes, and relationships for creative collaboration. She supports her clients aligning goals, policies, & operations throughout their organization; setting up collaborative structures & processes to make policy decisions; accessing their group’s collective intelligence; and designing their relationships for collaboration and productivity. She works on multiple levels, from organizational to interpersonal, empowering clients to address the challenges they face. Her passion is to create joyful, productive relationships and workplaces, where everyone’s voice matters. She is also a partner in Blueprint of We California.
