Annual Global Sociocracy Conference

Rosie Axon and Kasia Sikora-Black | This short workshop will explore 5 themes that we have encountered so far in our self-management journey, and will invite participants to consider their expectations and thoughts on how these themes play out in their existing work places.

John Buck | In the workshop, each participant will create a small experiment in connected climate action that is actionable by the participant. For example, experiments might increase the awareness of the need for urgent action especially among internal and external connections, inspire others to take action NOW on some aspect of this enormous crisis, enable everyone to get feedback on their efforts, etc. We will share the experiment designs with the rest of the conference to get their feedback.

Rolf Medina | Scrum is today the most popular agile method, especially in product development, but also for other types of business. Many organizations struggle with managing different Scrum teams with different backlogs that often have different priorities. In this session we will discuss how sociocracy can be used as a governance model for Scrum and vice versa; how Scrum can be used within an organization based on Sociocracy. First the principles and then the challenges, pitfalls and success of Sociocratic Agile implementations in practice.

Idit Rose and Nathaniel Whitestone | Nate and Idit invite you to join us in this Embodied Sociocracy session We will move our bodies Share how we use sociocracy in our lives with relation to our body. Reflect and explore a sociocratic principle through our body in relation to life, leadership, facilitators and more. We will offer coaching and give you practical tools to support your embodied journey. We will be so happy to have you with us.

Joachim Stroh | DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) are rapidly becoming a new organizational form that have the capacity to lift us out of the competitive industrial age into a new cooperative way of working and solving the hard and wicked problems together. Principles of sociocracy are at the heart of these new organizations to enable anyone (startups, coops, communities, villages) to come together and build a business and community on a global scale from the ground up sans geographic boundaries and entry barriers to launch a business. Come see how the Hypha DAO has entered this new playground with a third generation DAO that has everything you need in an “organization-in-a-box”.

Kristina Banks and Ingrid Haftel | Join Kristina Banks and Ingrid Haftel from the Participatory Budgeting Project as they share reflections on the intersections between sociocracy and participatory budgeting (PB)–and how they are experiencing the transformative power of this shared governance systemically, organizationally, and individually.

Ted Rau | Are you ready to make the switch to sociocracy but feeling overwhelmed with where to start? Changing your governance system can feel like open heart surgery! I mean, how do you change everything while keeping operations going? And there are all those questions – like who decides that we can use sociocracy? Everyone or the “old” leadership” And can we adopt a few parts, or do we have to do everything at once? In this talk, we’ll explore the benchmarks and different strategies of adoption for sociocracy, along with their advantages and disadvantages. We’ll provide a roadmap for getting started, helping you navigate the process with confidence and more clarity.

Ted Rau | Are you ready to make the switch to sociocracy but feeling overwhelmed with where to start? Changing your governance system can feel like open heart surgery! I mean, how do you change everything while keeping operations going? And there are all those questions – like who decides that we can use sociocracy? Everyone or the “old” leadership” And can we adopt a few parts, or do we have to do everything at once? In this talk, we’ll explore the benchmarks and different strategies of adoption for sociocracy, along with their advantages and disadvantages. We’ll provide a roadmap for getting started, helping you navigate the process with confidence and more clarity.