Author: Sociocracy For All

Series of past decisions shape the future possibilities. Decisions manifest culture, values and shadows of organizations and people. What if we create a decision making operating system for tayloristic, agile and sociocratic organizations to help us make better decisions? Content: Anatomy of decision making | Major challenges | Major opportunities | Proposal of Decision Making…

This presentation tells the story of how a newly forming North American Tantric Buddhist sangha (community), Bhumisparsha, came to adopt Sociocracy as its governance structure. As a group committed to non-harm, with many having witnessed grievous misconduct in other North American Buddhist sanghas, the group turned to sociocracy as a way to address a structural…

Org Stories, inspired by the game Black Stories, explores anti-patterns, practises that generate bad habits and deeper problems. The game was designed as a consulting tool with the intuit to stimulate groups reflection on their own work practises and organizational tragedies.

Greenbelt arose in 1937 from Eleanor Roosevelt’s vision of a cooperative, pedestrian-based, affordable town where decisions affecting all would truly be made by all who resided there. John Buck & Aileen Kroll saw Greenbelt as a perfect laboratory for bringing DG (sociocracy) to a whole town. They founded a Center in 2014. Hear about their…

Drawing on years of community organizing, permaculture education, nature connection, and sociocratic practice, Rhonda Baird will use short stories to illustrate how these tools reinforce each other to support our communities in shifting their systems and cultural tools. We will look at the problems each might help us to solve and where and how they…

We explore different ways to implement sociocratic practices within traditional hierarchical organizations that may not be ready to completely change their governance structure formally. We will offer tangible tools and real-world examples for how to model the world of shared power you would like to live in regardless of the current organizational structure or culture…

Sharing experience with sociocracy gathered at a shared apartment with 11 adults at a housing coop in Zurich, Switzerland since 2017.

Present in 29 European countries Volt is a pan-European party with the same pro-Europe, pragmatic and progressive platform across the Union. Volt-CH, the Swiss chapter was established in October 2019. Since January 2021 Volt-CH is testing a sociocratic internal organization. We will present the motivations to test sociocracy, the main elements of the organization and…