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Hey there!

We’ve had a great start of the fundraising campaign with 13% of our overall fundraising goal already achieved! I want to thank Deborah Chang who has done a lot of work to make it happen. If you want to donate and haven’t already, please see the beautiful giving page. If you are nervous about the idea of fundraising and would like some ideas of what you could do, then contact Deborah ([email protected])!

If you are a teacher or know a teacher, please pass on the information about the sociocracy in schools conference on January 15 (below).

New roles and updates:

• SoFA is intending to set up a related nonprofit legal entity in Europe to be able to hire people and apply for grants in the EU. That’s also moving forward now with Kelvin as Role International Entity Researcher.
• Outreach Circle has hired new people, Alma Garcia Gil (campaign support), and John Clark is helping in Forum Circle as Forum Curator. Lots of new people in roles that expand the capacity of SoFA, hurray!

And… Hope’s book on sociocracy with children is ready! The ebook can be ordered now, the print book will take another week to ship. Hurray, Hope, and congratulations!!

Upcoming member events

• WED, December 15 @ 19:30 – 20:30 UTC
  Community of Practice: leaders of sociocratic circles — A community of practice for mutual support for leaders of sociocratic circles. Meets monthly.

• MON, December 27 @ 10:00 – 11:00 EST 
  Community of Practice: Schools and Education — A community of practice for mutual support for school sociocratic practitioners.

• TUE, December 28 @ 10:00 – 11:30 EST 
  Community of Practice: facilitators of sociocratic circles — A community of practice for mutual support for facilitators of sociocratic circles.

Sociocracy in Schools conference

January 15

We’re excited to announce registration is open for the first Sociocracy in Schools Conference: Empowering Youth in Education! Join us on January 15, 2022, to hear from alumni, school leaders, consultants, and advocates sharing real-life examples of sociocracy in schools and with youth of all ages. Visit the conference page to see the line-up and register.

Volunteers needed 

Would you like to help out with the Jan. 15 online conference? Please take a moment to complete the volunteer application form.

Circle reports

General Circle

• Talked about growth and how to make sure things keep working (see discussion)?
• Launched a Helping Circle on Language Equity!

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Content Circle

• Training Circle: Pierre and Andreas joined Training Circle as delegate and lead from Consultants Circle; Training Circle worked out Academy Level 2 program and pricing
• Fundraising Circle is busy!

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Ecosystem Circle

• School grant project going well
• Conference coming for schools in January
• Intentional Communities Circle had a great conference with 200+ people and $5000 in tickets! Yay!
• Education: Hope Wilder’s book “Let’s decide together” is launched!

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Membership Circle

• Membership guides circle created.
• Drafted policy on Expectation & Evaluation of Ongoing Education to present to General Circle.

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International Circle

• Created International Entity Helping Circle.
• SoFA Turkey — starting to be a possibility!

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Our newest members

• Ramón García Albalat (Spain)
  Educación Circle | SoPra

• Thomas Marshall (France)
  SoFra Circle (SoFA Francophone)

Tell us about sociocracy in nonprofits

The newly re-formed NGO & Nonprofit Sector Development Circle is looking for articles about Sociocracy in the nonprofit sector. Do you want to write an article? Do you have an organization that might be interesting to interview? Let us know! We would be happy to help get your article published on the SoFA website!

Email: [email protected]

Latest blog post

The Difference Between Whole-Group Consensus and Dynamic Governance/Sociocracy by Ted Rau.

A recurring question in our teaching is to describe the difference between consensus and consent, and between whole-group consensus and Dynamic Governance (sociocracy) used in a community or a cooperative….

Additional notices from role holders or circles are welcome. Upcoming due dates:
Dec 7 | Dec 21 | Jan 4 — all Tuesdays. 

Your feedback about SoMBu is welcome, too!

Email: [email protected]