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In this presentation I like to share my experience in (re)designing the organisational structure and implementation of sociocratic governance models in different contexts. What creates the safety to start? How to distribute power and influence and keep track of the organisational flows? How to run governance meetings and use consent decision making in systems that use delegacy? How to evaluate domains and help the organisation to become self-sufficient in doing sociocracy? I also like to hear your challenges and give my view in return.
If a circle can’t make a decision despite trying, the decision may move to the next-higher circle. The end of this chain is the highest circle in the organization, often the Mission Circle or the Board of Directors. But what happens if that circle can’t make a decision?
This is not only relevant for governance but also for legal questions – an organization cannot be deadlocked and needs to have clearly assigned authority to work within the current legal system. Some organizations use majority rule as fall-back. What other options are there for the “top circle” problem that incentive collaboration and integrating of objections but still break the deadlock?
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Neighbourhood Parliaments movement is one of the world’s largest local participatory democracy movements, with hundreds of thousands of communities in southern India. In Europe, we have begun adapting the Neighbourhood Parliaments model into what we now call Sociocratic Neighbourhood Circles. Learn about the history, the model, current experiments, and have a chance to discuss this and ask questions relating to your own community.
We are dealing with a slow crisis of climate change. We are used to a crisis being now and urgent and stirring fight or flight hormones that cause us to drop everything and face the imminent problem. So, the difficulty with climate change (and other planetary challenges) is that for most of us the fight or flight hormones are not kicking in. We’ve already experienced our share of changes to the climate (extraordinary storms, blizzards, floods, etc), and wondered if there’s anything we could do about it? How will we feel when the problems start getting more serious – for example, when the sea level rapidly rises by 66cm – which is predicted to happen between 2025 & 2027!? The climate crisis is a wicked problem that tends to leave us overwhelmed (“what can little me do about such a big problem?”), uncertain if we can make a difference at all, and if so how?
Sustainably sharing our planet, our community, our ‘commons’ calls for the implementation of Prosocial Core Design Principles and the development of a ‘culture of the heart’.
Sociocracy provides us with ways to implement many of these Core Design Principles and it also supports connection between people that is respectful and egalitarian.
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”.
Shala Massey and Rhonda Baird | May 4th 12:15 – 13:15 UTC
Hugo Lopes and Isabelle Belloso | May 4th 12:15 -13:15 UTC
Nathaniel Whitestone and Joseph Rathinam | The Neighbourhood Parliaments movement is one of the world’s largest local participatory democracy movements, with hundreds of thousands of communities in southern India. In Europe, we have begun adapting the Neighbourhood Parliaments model into what we now call Sociocratic Neighbourhood Circles. Learn about the history, the model, current experiments, and have a chance to discuss this and ask questions relating to your own community.
Dette van Zeeland | In this presentation I like to share my experience in (re)designing the organisational structure and implementation of sociocratic governance models in different contexts. What creates the safety to start? How to distribute power and influence and keep track of the organisational flows? How to run governance meetings and use consent decision making in systems that use delegacy? How to evaluate domains and help the organisation to become self-sufficient in doing sociocracy? I also like to hear your challenges and give my view in return.
Rhea Ong Yiu | May 4th 13:15-14:00
Mixel Kiemen | May 4th 13:15-14:00
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.
Bernadette Wesley | May 4th 14:00 – 15:30
Emily Kawano | May 4th 14:00 – 15:30
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.
Chase Chapman | May 4th 15:30-16:30
Deirdre Ashenhurst | May 4th 15:30-16:30
Lara Ermacora | May 4t 16:30 – 17:15 UTC
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.
Abbie Kempson | May 4th 16:30 – 17:15 UTC
Rhonda Baird | May 4th 18:15 – 20:15
Di Pham | May 4th 18:15 – 20:15
Ted Rau | May 4th 18:15 – 20:15
SoFA Team | May 4th 20:15 – 20:45
SoFA Team | May 5th 12:30 – 13:00 UTC
Sanket | May 5th 12:30 – 14:00 UTC
Shala Massey, Kim Scott, Laine Wyldling Evans, Romina Farrell, Kåre Wangel | May 5th 12:30 – 14:00 UTC
Maria Friis Larsen and Lise Lotte Wolff | May 5th 13:00 – 14:00 UTC
SozFA | May 5th 14:00 – 15:00 UTC
Sanket | May 5th 14:00 – 15:00 UTC
Francine Proulx-Kenzle | May 5th 14:00 – 15:00 UTC
Thomas Kemps | May 5th 14:00 – 15:00 UTC
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.
Nicholas Morgan | May 5th 16:00 – 16:30 UTC
Simon Copsey | May 5th 16:00 – 16:30 UTC
Rory Antoniuk | May 5th 16:00 – 16:30 UTC
Oliver Müller, Kim Jana Degen, and Jeannine Brutschin | May 5th 16:30 – 17:30 UTC
François Knuchel | May 5th 16:30 – 17:30 UTC
Shala Massey | May 5th 16:30 – 17:30 UTC
Umesh Mangroliya | May 5th 17:30 -18:30 UTC
Alex Rodríguez | May 5th 17:30 -18:30 UTC
Hope Wilder and Tina Nielsen-Hodges | May 5th 17:30 -18:30 UTC
Sheella Mierson | May 5th 18:30 – 19:30 UTC
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.
Tibet Sprague | May 5th 19:30 – 20:30 UTC
Jerry Koch-Gonzalez | If a circle can’t make a decision despite trying, the decision may move to the next-higher circle. The end of this chain is the highest circle in the organization, often the Mission Circle or the Board of Directors. But what happens if that circle can’t make a decision?
John Schinnerer | May 5th 19:30 – 20:30 UTC
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.
Roberto Spano | May 5th 20:30 – 21:30 UTC
Valentin Abend | May 5th 20:30 – 21:15 UTC
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.
Roberto Spano | May 5th 20:30 – 21:30 UTC
Valentin Abend | May 5th 20:30 – 21:15 UTC
SoFA Team | May 4th 23:30-1:00 UTC
Ian Goh | May 5th 1:00 – 2:00 UTC
Pip Atkins and Scillia Sayer | Sustainably sharing our planet, our community, our ‘commons’ calls for the implementation of Prosocial Core Design Principles and the development of a ‘culture of the heart’. Sociocracy provides us with ways to implement many of these Core Design Principles and it also supports connection between people that is respectful and egalitarian.
John Schinnerer, Gina Price, Erin Young, Francine Proulx-Kenzle, and Sheella Mierson | May 5th 2:00 – 3:00 UTC
May 5th 3:00 – 3:30 UTC
This conference was sociocratically organized by members of Sociocracy For All