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Many Voices One Song is the sociocracy handbook
How sociocracy works
in a sociocratic
organization!
How to transition
and implement sociocracy
in a non-sociocratic organization
Many Voices One Song by SoFA co-founders Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez is the manual for sociocracy โ a comprehensive sociocracy handbook covering all topics relevant to using sociocracy in organizations: decision-making, circle structure, meeting format and feedback.
๐ก This book is right if you want to learn how sociocracy works or how to apply it in a sociocratic organization.
๐ Its companion, From Here To There, with a special focus on the implementation of sociocracy, will appear in fall 2025. It covers the steps of sociocracy implementations, pitfalls, legal, financial and HR, special structures for various sectors, and governance agreements.
๐ก This book is right for you if you want to introduce sociocracy in a non-sociocratic organization.
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The authors can be reached at info@sociocrayforall.org for speaking gigs and consultations.
Resources
Many Voices One Song is a great start to learning and using sociocracy!
The following resources accompany the book.
You are also invited to submit feedback to the book – so we can improve it with a future new edition.
Diagrams
Diagrams from Many Voices One Song
Diagrams from From Here to There
Documents
from Many Voices One Song
Feedback form
Feelings and needs list
Meeting sheet
Pdf documents from From Here To There
Governance agreements
Learning and onboarding
Most commonly used to train people in an organization:
The sociocracy primer – an on-demand mix of videos and articles that gives an overview of sociocracy within about 75min.
This is a great way to get non-operational members like prospective or board members a high-level overview.
FREE ($0)
Empowered Learning Circles – a video-led, on-demand course for groups of 4-7 people. Training people in pods is easy to schedule.
Many organizations have used this program for their training and/or onboarding.
$120/group of 4-8 people
Links for support
Professional support
Do you want to get outside support? SoFA staff supports:
- full implementation support
- get coaching hour by hour
- review your implementation path, your structure, your documents, pay or budgeting policies or your training needs.
IT tools
Display your roles and circles in an online tool – that helps track term ends, circle membership and aims/domains.
SoFA uses peerdom. Learn about other systems on our IT tool page.
Templates and samples
Find a meeting template, agenda template and governance agreements on our template page.
Quizzes
Organizational health check
For sociocratic (and almost sociocratic) organizations: How sociocratic is your organization? What is going well? Where are gaps?
Sociocracy Assessment
For individual learners:
Get an overview of your training level – you can also use this tool to gauge how much training your team needs, or to track your progress over time!
