Category: Community
Educating the Village – embedding sociocracy in a cohousing community
Treehouse Village Ecohousing Webinar shares the successes and challenges their community has faced.
Clarity and empowerment: What is a domain?
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in Audience, Articles, Business, Community, Coop, Delivery element, Education, NGO, Permaculture, TopicDomains in sociocracy – while they are innocent-looking, they are the foundation that makes sociocracy so transformative – with empowerment, and clarity! So what are domains? Each circle has an […]
Mehr als Wohnen — housing coop – Andreas Geiger
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About a “satellite apartment” with 10 other adults at the ambitious mehralswohnen.ch housing coop in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2017 we have been practicing sociocracy for our monthly circle meetings (to discuss issues, make decisions, manage our money) and open votes to select new flatmates.
R:ekobyn i Röstånga – a forming community
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R:ekobyn is a forming ecovillage in rural Sweden. R:ekobyn encourages local businesses and plans to lease part of the land to new businesses to bring back daily social life to the village, reduce the need to commute.
Bridport Cohousing and Sociocracy
“What is in store for Bridport Cohousing and Sociocracy? ‘We’ll just get better at it!’ laughs Judith. ’Nobody has suggested dropping it. The opposite in fact – using Sociocracy has helped us attract new members.’”
Communities: going from consensus to sociocracy
Consensus in cohousing or other intentional communities often creates tensions, especially when all decisions are made together. n this video, Jerry Koch-Gonzalez shows how sociocracy offers a solution, and this video shows how & why to switch and what to expect.
Sociocracy in forming communities
Sociocracy is used by dozens of communities. Forming communities need governance to manage the community themselves. In this video, we show how sociocracy works in forming communities – groups that are looking for a site or have started to build. Because community is much sweeter when meetings are connecting and productive!
Case study: Prairie Hill Cohousing
Prairie Hill is a cohousing community on an 8-acre site in Iowa City, Iowa. It got its start in 2009, and they started construction in 2017. At this time (spring, 2020) they have built their common house and about 30 of their 36 units.
Case study: Grobund
Three years ago, in a Town named Ebeltoft people started to gather, they began having conversations within the Community, they started organising themselves and gradually formed an organisation of around 30 people.
The “four necessary requirements” for intentional communities to use sociocracy effectively
In my years teaching sociocracy for ecovillages, cohousing communities, and other intentional communities and member-led groups, I realized they need to meet what I call “the four necessary requirements” to succeed and thrive with sociocracy — to use it effectively and avoid the unintended conflict from not meeting the requirements. They are: (1) Everyone learns…
