Hey members! 

Remember to get your tickets for the global conference on April 27!  If you’re able to volunteer by being a host for a zoom room, please fill out this volunteer form. 

It’s been an exciting week in some circles because of the conference. There’s also been a shift in the General Circle — Jerry and CJ are no longer links on the General Circle, and now new-er people, John Clark and Alma Garcia Gil are new voices on GC. This reflects another level of growth and also a new level of focus in SoFA as we’re trying to consolidate and get things out the door!

General Circle and Mission Circle are thinking about the bigger frame of where/who we are, and what’s going to get us closer to the world we want to be in. It’s gratifying and exciting.

Have a wonderful week! 

In this broadcast: 

• SoLT launches March 30
• New SoFA members
• Upcoming member events
• Cooperatives conference (6/23)
• Circle reports

SoLT launches March 30

You can help with outreach!

Here’s something you could be writing to a few friends, colleagues, or on social media:

• • SoFA is doing an immersion-based training starting March 30. I don’t know about you, but the SoLT training was a key part of my sociocracy education and how I met many people throughout SoFA.
  • It’s a great opportunity to let some people in your community or project try out sociocracy in a “sheltered” context for a limited time.
  • How it works: participants join a “play” circle with a small project and then have the meetings to figure out all the questions and make proposals in sociocratic ways. It’s perfect for everyone who doesn’t have as much experience with sociocracy yet but wants to get more fluent!

Thank you!

New SoFA members

• Kathleen Walsh (US) — Intentional Communities
• Karen Kieffer (US) — Organizational Membership & Communities of Practice
• Kelvin Klatt (NL) — Role: ​​International Entity Researcher

Upcoming member events

• TUE, March 22
  Community of Practice: facilitators of sociocratic circle
• THU, March 24
  Sociocracy Implementation Peer Support (SIPS) Community of Practice
• FRI, March 25
  Breaking Cycles Community of Practice
• WED, April 6
  Community of Practice: Schools and Education
• MON, April 11
  @Work Community of Practice 
• WED, April 20 
  Community of Practice: leaders of sociocratic circles

Quakers and sociocracy, March 20

¿Quieres saber más sobre los Quakers o Cuáqueros?
(Want to learn more about the Quakers?)

Explore a theme that is often mentioned when we talk about the origins of sociocracy: the Quakers. Who were they? What was their influence?

We will delve into this topic further on Monday, March 28, 14:30 to 15:30 UTC.

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Cooperatives Conference (June 23)

The Co-op Circle is calling for proposals for presentations at their second Sociocracy in Cooperatives Conference scheduled for June 23, 2022. Please spread the word!

Working in a small group?

Share your experience on a webinar

Are you using sociocracy in a small-size organization (<10-15 members)? Would you like to share your experience and challenges in a SoFA webinar? If so, Webinar Circle will be more than happy to host you as a speaker!

Circle reports

General Circle

• New members (Alma Gil Garcia, John Clark); new facilitator (Hope Wilder)
• Working on a Theory of Change (draft notes)
• Language Justice Circle: Connected more deeply through an exploration about what is language equity from a personal perspective and cultural background; reviewed the social justice statement to understand how it connects to our work

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Content Circle

• Thinking about reorganizing domains within the Content department to bring content producers in social media, training and on the website closer together
• Hanna stepped down as leader of Content Production Circle
• Publishing house approved a proposal for French translation of Let’s decide together
• Rhonda working on a blueprint for new sectors
• Training circle in client work, Academy, preparing SoLT
• Conference Circle busy with the annual conference April 27!

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Ecosystem Circle

• Discussed budget updates, people feel invested (“it’s our budget”).
• Sector-specific newsletters are in progress.
• Circles are encouraged to put new organizations on the SoFA map.

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Membership Circle

• Budgeting Circle reworking the budgeting process to allow almost real-time tracking of the budget.

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International Circle

• We started picture forming on Domain clarification: is Content (content production/training…etc) for English or “language-free”/international? 
• SoFA Italia: forward motion and more clarity.

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Mission Circle

• Did a sensing session on this topic:
  
  “The issues in the world are complex and intertwined. Sociocracy is a good tool to make decisions under these circumstances. Given that we can’t do everything, what are the places where our contribution makes the most sense? And what does that mean for SoFA?”

  In the SoFA Forum, watch the (18min) recording of the sensing session and share your opinion!

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SoMBu feedback: sombu@sociocracyforall.org.

Additional notices from role holders or circles are welcome. Submissions are due on the day when General Circle meets: Mar 29 | Apr 4 | Apr 18 — all Tuesdays.