English/Dutch Workshop at the Global Centre in Rotterdam in September 2012

[Francois Knuchel]

Working with sociocracy starts by leading oneself in a sociocratic way.

 

This means setting goals, doing more with ‘more or less’ and taking corrective action to stay on track; taking responsibility for your needs, emotions and decisions; accepting that others have the power to correct you;  regarding criticism as feedback from which you and the other person can learn; taking decisive action but also caring to make space to listen to others and grow.

 

This, you will find, is not always easy. You are guided by past experience, in democratic or autocratic structures.  This can get you entangled in unproductive power plays, with yourself and others, triggered when things get tense.

 

We resent, we resist, we fight: we try to make others do what we want them to, we sabotage decisions, we become judgmental. Or we do the opposite, we flee, we procrastinate, we abandon projects or we do things against our will.

 

Wouldn’t you rather want to steer these processes into something more productive and learn to lead yourself more consciously? And wouldn’t you want to help others do so?

 

The Sociocratic Center in the Netherlands is running an English/Dutch workshop “Leading Yourself and Others“ with Gilles Charest, an expert in this field, in Rotterdam on 12 – 14 September.  Tools you will learn are the Inner Circle structure and the Wheel of Talents.

 

For more information see the flyer.