Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Sociocracy Resources by Ted Rau

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From Ted Rau and his organization Sociocracy for All.

SOFA's most popular sociocracy resources in 2021 in one big list

Another year sharing, teaching, writing, coaching, problem-solving is ending. 

This email is our end-of-the-year gift to you - it's packed with inspiring reads and learning.

May our resources help you make your organizations smoother, connected and more wonderful! 

If you want to share all these resources with someone, please do! Share this list on social media Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn or by email. Or tell them to look on this page: https://www.sociocracyforall.org/our-most-used-resources-in-2021.

Ted, Executive Director of Sociocracy For All

P.S. If you haven't donated yet, it's about time! See the SoFA giving page.

Books

In 2021, we added two books to our list!

Articles

Older articles with many reads:

Newer foundational articles:

Advanced resources for governance geeks

Thought-provoking

Case studies

All case studies can be accessed on the case study page. 

Printables

Find our printables on the Facilitation Page. 

Like what we do? Thank you!

Here are ways to help: 

Learning with Sociocracy For All

SoFA generally has 4 sociocracy levels. Unclear what your level is? Take the quiz!

Beginner level, facilitation level and Nonviolent Communication classes can be done in 3 different ways: 

  • Open workshops. You simply sign up for a class.
  • Video-led classes. Your group learns with videos and exercises.
  • Team workshops for your organization. Your own group + a SoFA trainer. 

All details on the training page.

The best deal are definitely the video-led classes. You can learn with your group, low price, on your own schedule. All you need to do is register, access the videos and invite 3-5 friends and start learning. They can be done via video platform or in person. 
And here is the complete schedule:

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/events/


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Thursday, September 9, 2021

Inspiration from Richard Wolff, in an interview with Marianne Willamson

Marianne Williamson interviews Prof. Richard Wolff, and it was brilliant.


I am liking the thinking of Prof. Richard Wolff a lot, and the cooperative concept has potential, however, what does not work for me is the democratic one person one vote, which includes a veto right.

The crucial improvement of Consent Management (Sociocracy), is that it focuses on making decisions only based on the absence of reasoned objections, thereby preventing stalemates and creating a true learning organization.

Once you understand that, the only challenge is to structure your company correctly to ensure that the right people are always included in decision processes at every level.

Like Wolff, I hate the labels, for they prevent intelligent conversation. This is one reason I did not like Endenburg's term sociocracy. The principle is very clear however, and it is clearly the better answer to what Wolff proposes, for the cooperative concept has always been stymied by decision stalemates, just as much as the consensus style decision making is. It was Endenburg's brilliant contribution to define consent as "the absence of reasoned objections."


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