Sociocracy

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Peter Koenig on source, money and consciousness
... decision and that seems incredibly inefficient and dictatorial. And it was interesting to me to hear that you spent some time with some folks in the sociocracy world, and you applied the source work to the lens of consent-based decision making. So what would you say about decision making and how source work ...more
...sible for what you have sourced so on the other side, you have this 100% decision making power. It's the other side of the same coin. Now, coming to sociocracy and so-called 'joint decision making', I have a different context of what's happening there and I have worked with people in sociocracy so I do know ...more
...ow, coming to sociocracy and so-called 'joint decision making', I have a different context of what's happening there and I have worked with people in sociocracy so I do know a little bit about what you're talking about. So in my view, what's really happening there is that you have somebody with responsibility...more
...ow I'm clear", you will see there'll be instant consent, even consensus in the group. So I would reframe what is seemed to be happening there in many sociocratic groups, is that actually, it's a source getting clear, and the others are really being very, very helpful. And when it's redefined in that kind of wa...more
...others are really being very, very helpful. And when it's redefined in that kind of way, what I have found is that it is really helpful for the whole sociocratic group - when they understand that that's what's happening, because everybody can take their own position as source then. And we're not all trying to ...more

Jorge Silva on horizontal structures and participatory culture at 10Pines

...e culture and how we see the management of the company. The first one is that we make decisions in a collaborative way. And we use concerns - like in Sociocracy. The idea is that when you propose something, you look for objections, and an objection is someone that strongly disagrees with the idea. And what we...more
...aring, for example, and a group that also makes decisions about salaries - is that how that works? Jorge Silva: Well actually it works like a kind of Sociocratic model. It is interesting because when we started the company, we never heard about Sociocracy but we ended up with a very similar model. We have circ...more
...ks? Jorge Silva: Well actually it works like a kind of Sociocratic model. It is interesting because when we started the company, we never heard about Sociocracy but we ended up with a very similar model. We have circles - we call them work groups - and we have a work group or a circle for practically everythi...more
...r way to do things but you can't find another way. So you go to the classics. But if you start to see that there are a lot of other ways to do this - Sociocracy, Teal, Holacracy, whatever and we start creating content, this matters. Right now we have a lot of books, but if you go to school or to university, i...more

Bernadette Wesley on bridging inner and outer transformation

... - focusing on that, so that I can co-create the world that I want to see. That's where my power lies. When we talk about power with structures like sociocracy, they really will only work to the extent that someone can feel power within themselves and the world that they're creating. If they even do have tha...more
...can choose to take it back. So the language is a whole other topic that we could talk about, of course. But I remember when I saw you speaking at the sociocracy conference that was one of the things I wrote down when you said you cannot have power with without power within. I wonder if you could unpack that f...more