How to find out more about Sociocracy

[Martin Grimshaw]

We The People - Consenting To A Deeper Democracy by John Buck and Sharon Villines is the place to start: http://www.sociocracy.info/

The Wikipedia entry is a really useful overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy as does the the Dutch Center

Some members have started to try to answer the question What is Sociocracy? We hope to add a variety of personal replies to this question over time. Why not add your attempt to explain it in one paragraph there? You might also find members' responses here  useful, as well as musing over (and responding to) the personal development questions posed too. And here's a DecisionLab version.

 

We've also generated a basic 1 page graphic which gives a useful overview of the essentials, which you can download and use for free from here

I'm on my own... how could I possibly introduce this big system to my team? http://www.sociocracy.info/applying-sociocrac-as-an-individual/

There are some great short Videos here on our site, featuring Gerard Endenberg, John Buck and others.

Shortened version of 'Democracy as it might be'; first published in May 1945, by Kees Boeke (1884-1966) - the article that nearly cost him his life: http://worldteacher.faithweb.com/sociocracy.htm

Email discussion group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sociocracy/

The newly launched international centre, in English, with great links, community, and resources. Based in the USA, but directly an offspring of the former centre in the Netherlands, and borne of the first international conference that took place in Canada 2010: http://www.socionet.us

 

DecisionLab and friends run regular workshops for tools that are effective on their own, such as collaborative consent-based decision making but which also function as incremental steps in fostering a healthier, learning, Sociocratic organisation; you might find our Facilitative Leadership Programme especially useful, or signal your interest in a UK Sociocratic Study Circle

 

What would you add ?

[Francois Knuchel]

 

Creative Forces of Self Organisation, a 25-page article by John Buck and Gerrard Endenburg describing the basics of Sociocracy with some live examples of how it works in practice (example of circle meeting).

 

http://www.sociocracy.com - English version of Sociocratie Zentrum website in Holland (Global Centre of Sociocracy), with a more continental European perspective on Sociocracy.