Author: Sociocracy For All
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So, you want to practice sociocracy with children? (Hope Wilder)
Sociocracy is easily picked up by children with practice. This presentation will focus on steps to take to practice sociocracy with children in small groups, from finding a children’s domain to practicing consent decision making together.
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Implementing a sociocratic organization using sociocracy (Gaëtan Belbeoc’h)
After experimenting sociocratic meetings within our team for two years we had to merge our team of roughly 60 people with another one of the same size. This was the opportunity for us to dive more into sociocracy and reorganize our department properly. It was not an easy task for us. So we decided to…
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Sociocratic framework in the modern art gallery (Paulina Koperska)
All the activities of modern art galleries in the southwest of Poland concern the interface between contemporary visual practice and new social, political, and spiritual ideas. Sociocracy seemed to be the obvious choice for the new director. At the same time, BWA is deeply rooted in the bureaucratic world of the public institution.
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Sunflower Model for circles in sociocracy (Mehmet Kuzu)
Mehmet Kuzu provides consultancy to different types of organizations in the field of sustainable local development as a Statistician with Political Science knowledge. He works as a Business Development and Entrepreneurship Specialist at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Since 2009, he has been working as a trainer in projects within the…
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Co-creating regenerative settlements with sociocracy (Rachel Butler, Caroline Jeffrey)
Tiny House Community Bristol, UK, are a group of volunteers dedicated to tackling Bristol’s housing, climate and ecological crises through creating community-led Tiny House settlements that regenerate nature and community. This talk will cover how we have found sociocracy to be a great fit for our organisational mission, the lessons learned implementing sociocracy and the…
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How I introduced sociocracy in my software company and worked myself out of a job (Evan Miller)
In 2014 my business hit a wall and we needed to reinvent how we worked. I fell in love with Holacracy, but ran into a brick wall when I tried to get buy-in from my leadership team. I stepped back, picked a baby step, and tried a consent process. Something shifted. For the next four…
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Egg or hen – Sociocracy: an organizational approach or a manifestation of a mindset? (Armin Sieber)
Encouraged by positive experiences with various new forms to organize a school, we finally decided on Sociocracy 3.0. The organic adaptability of S3.0 provided a framework to incorporate useful elements from other approaches and, at the same time, to meet the need for orientation and “simplexity” in our VUCA world. So for us, it was…
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KEEP THE BALANCE The Consent-Game for more cohesion and community (Anja Ritter & Barbara Strauch)
As a project of Sociocracy Center Austria we developed, with supported from Indian Children’s Parliaments, this board-game for easy learning of consent-decision and open election with fun and joy. In the German version, we produce and sell it latest at the end of 2021. The English will be printed half a year later. In the…
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Establishing a sociocratic center in the country where democracy was born (Sofia Kyprianidou & Verena Fink)
In February 2021 The Hellenic Sociocratic Center was officially founded, 12 certified facilitators have been facilitating for a couple of years in Greece, 8 members are on their way to becoming Sociocratic experts, implementations are in different phases in Athens and Thessaloniki. Which benefits does the Greek society get from this method, and which difficulties…
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Sociocracy as an equalizer in building a community-driven food policy council (Andy Grant & circle)
Reflecting a range of identities — food access professional, community organizer, resident, sociocracy trainer, and interpreter — this group from western Massachusetts (US) will demonstrate its practice of sociocracy. See a reaction round to the prompt, “As we build this food policy council together, how is sociocracy equalizing power?”
