Category: Global Sociocracy Conference 2021

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…

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?”

This session explores how we can get started with using Sociocracy without having to talk about it while accounting for its ethical implications based on insights from Complexity Science, specifically the theory of Complex Responsive Process (CRP).

Self-management relies on the explicit understanding of the organisation’s competencies and a shared set of values. The TRIMA toolset and questionnaires explore three dimensions of human behaviour (Social Styles, Competencies, Leadership Styles) and provide a shared language for values and competencies. We facilitate the transition to self-management with TRIMA-based modules supporting personal and team development

When I created my first professional theatre company, I wanted it to be horizontal with no chief, no hierarchy. But somehow it didn’t work as I was expecting it to work despite my very positive intentions. You can hear what happened next and how I implanted Sociocracy in my second theatre company.

Together with the Vienna Institute for Participative Social Research, and funded by a governmental foundation, the Sociocracy Center Austria developed this Measurement Instrument, measuring effectiveness of teamwork. We present results of 450 participants, half of them from average working population. Compared with sociocratic teams the dimension “efficiency” (out of 10 dimensions) is 38% higher with…

Sociocracy has been demonstrated to be a highly effective and efficient decision-making process, especially where a group, such as the Peoples Party of Washington State, is mostly committed to a shared goal or purpose. We will also present the process we use to select and prioritize the policy planks in our party platform using a…

Through their unique ability to empower multiple streams of value creation among million of actors, platform organizations such as Amazon, Airbnb, Haier are quickly emerging as leaders of the business world. Boundaryless will share early insights from mixing their market-based design with sociocracy as an attempt to foster unprecedented levels of entrepreneurship, motivation, inclusiveness and…

Two completely different organizations reached the limits of their current governance style. What specific drivers made them consider sociocracy as the way forward? Who were the leading actors initiating the change? How did the implementation team set their starting line? What roadblocks had the pioneers on their way? Did the rest of their organization join…