You know sociocracy well or you are part of a sociocratic organization? Consider joining SoFA as a member!
Below is our organizational structure which will give you a sense of what we do. If you’d like to request membership, you can find all the information you need on the membership page. Most circles meet once a month, or more often if members decide to. See all aims, domains and role description here or click on the circles below.
Members looking for the SoFA phonebook, go this way.
SoFA circles
Click on one of the circles to see the circle's aim and domain plus roles.
Content circle
- Aim: spreading sociocracy with accessible, educational and inspirational materials
- Domain: resources that contain content and makes that content available to a larger audience (website, videos, webinar recordings, all visuals, articles, brochures).
- Roles: newsletter, conference admin, youtube admin, website, webinars
Training circle
- Aim: supporting training by supporting trainers and delivery on all levels
- Domain: training and evaluation materials, upcoming trainings, trainer list
- Roles: ELC point person and coach
Commu- nity
- Aim: Creating and enhancing connections among the people who are practicing and sharing sociocracy to support community and implementations
- Domain: sector and language specific content
- Roles: SoFA community, external contact (B2B), membership
Mission circle
(aka Top Circle)
- Aim: holding Sociocracy For All true to its mission.
- Domain: All decisions that affect long-term direction of Sociocracy For All in all departments.
Book circle
- Aim: supporting editing the manual Many Voices One Song; supporting translations of the book
- Domain: book draft
Outreach circle
(temporary)
- Aim: developing an outreach approach to better understand SoFA’s audience and reach
- Domain: -
Case Study circle
- Aim: Writing, overseeing and publishing case studies.
- Domain: the master sociocratic org list, “We’re doing sociocracy list”
Social media circle
- Aim: Spreading sociocratic content on social media
- Domain: content list, social media accounts: twitter, linkedin, FB, FB group, hootesuite, instagram
SoLT
- Aim: shepherding and improving the SoLT format (Sociocracy online leadership training)
- Domain: all training materials
SoFT training
- Aim: shepherding improving the SoFT format (Sociocracy facilitation training)
Domain: all training materials; evaluation materials
Training comm. of practice circle
- Aim: peer support for sociocracy trainers
- Domain: workshop design samples, content related to training
Intent. commu- nity circle
- (practitioners)
Aim: Creating and enhancing connections among the people who are practicing and sharing sociocracy in intentional communities. - Domain: all content related to intentional communities
Intent. commu- nity circle
(developers)
- Aim: Creating and enhancing connections among the circle members - who are practicing sociocracy their intentional community.
- Domain: all content related to intentional communities
Perma- culture circle
- Aim: Creating and enhancing connections among the people who are practicing and sharing sociocracy in permaculture
- Domain: all permaculture-specific content, landing page sociocracy/permaculture, list of resources
SoPra
- Aim: Creating and enhancing connections among the people who are practicing and sharing sociocracy in the Spanish-speaking world.
- Domain: all Spanish-speaking content
Trans- lations (SoPra)
Translating English content into Spanish, and Spanish content into English.
Co-op circle
- Aim: Creating and enhancing connections among the people who are practicing and sharing sociocracy in co-operatives
- Domain: all co-op-specific content, landing page for co-operatives, list of cooperatives
Support circle
- Aim: providing, maintaining and improving the infrastructure within SoFA.
- Domain: gsuite (incl. calendar), zoom accounts, youcanbookme, all bank accounts
- Roles: admin, accounting
General circle
Aims
- Spreading sociocracy with accessible, educational and inspirational materials about sociocracy (articles, videos, webinars, social media)
- Supporting training by supporting trainers’ learning and advertising trainings.
- Networking the sociocracy world.