Author: Sociocracy For All
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Sociocracy and Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (Kate Whittle, Marcelino Sepulveda)
The Co-op Circle of Sociocracy For All in an open conversation on Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI), and how we can act on these principles with sociocracy in our organisations.
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I used to be lazy at work (Joyce Kettering)
When I worked in Fortune 500 companies with strict hierarchies, I felt entitled and would get annoyed every time I needed to work a second overtime. Now I enjoy what I do so much that a lot of my time off is spent learning about writing code and APIs so I can be every better…
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Living into Sociocracy, through Art of Hosting (Ben Wolfe)
How Art of Hosting community dialogue process led a Canadian Unitarian congregation to widen and deepen its leadership culture — and find itself living into Sociocracy.
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Reiterating Sociocratic Models for Culturally-Competent Inclusion, Accessibility, Accountability, and Transparency (Sophie Xu)
Sophie Xu explores how to center historically and currently marginalized voices — especially those of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) — in existing and innovative sociocratic framework. She grapples with and examines the births of sociocracy, its linkage to whiteness, and how to render its core, identifying, and groundbreaking norms (e.g. consent-based decision-making)…
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Human nature vs. Sociocracy (Miriam Jones, Adam Rumack)
Living dynamic systems survive and thrive with change. A central tension in human systems is our resistance to necessary and unavoidable change. This tension cannot be solved by applying technical solutions, like sociocratic systems. We will look at a case-study of a failed sociocratic implementation, and what it showed us about power, ownership, and cultural…
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INDACO framework: roles & badges for individual and organizational development (Pierre Houben & Francesco Mondora)
Inter iNDependence, Agreement, and Commitment, and Objections is the process, that takes from sociocratic roles review and badges and evolve it, by which a person makes explicit and agrees on his or her personal evolution plan within :mondora, a software company in italy.
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Prosocial Schools and Sociocracy (Peter Bullock)
Nobel Laureate Lin Ostrom uncovered a set of design principles for activating a uniquely elaborated human capacity to help, cooperate and share power with others. Prosocial is a global initiative to catalyze positive cultural change that feature’s Ostrom’s work. Prosocial Schools is a global networked improvement community in the k-12 education field that utilizes sociocracy…
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Lessons Learned: Transitioning from Consensus to Sociocracy (Normal Wassel)
This workshop will cover how a cohousing community in the U.S. transitioned from using consensus to adopting sociocracy. What worked and what could be done better next time? It will cover the developmental stages, challenges to implementation, and how sociocracy was integrated into the governance process.
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Using Sociocracy to Create & Direct Economic Resources at the Community Level (Linda Black)
A presentation about using the principles and processes of sociocracy to provide platforms and tools that help to build economic resiliency at the community level. Communities can generate money and channel economic resources, keep money circulating locally, and decide together what community projects and efforts they want to support to better the lives of all.…
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Sociocracy and Transition: complementary pathways to resilient communities
Enlightening the common points between the two paths and how sociocracy as a government system where power is shared and work is done from collective intelligence helps groups to move towards good living, resilience and care for Mother Earth. We will share concrete examples, successes and challenges of transition initiatives that have embraced the sociocracy.
