IASC Practitioner Workshop on Sociocracy Self-Governance Practices

This is an IASC Virtual Practitioner Workshop that will teach participants about Sociocracy methods for Dynamic Self-Governance. The event will consist of four online sessions (2.5 hours each) on the following dates:

● Thursday September 7 2023, 6-8:30 pm US Eastern – Organizational Structure and roles
● Monday September 11, 2023, 6-8:30 pm US Eastern – Consent decision-making
● Thursday September 14, 2023, 6-8:30 pm US Eastern – Feedback, leadership and performance
● Monday September 18, 2023, 6-8:30 pm US Eastern – Meetings

This 4-session training workshop is a joint venture between the nonprofit organization Sociocracy for All (SoFA) and IASC. It is designed to train people living or working in self-governing settings such as intentional communities such as cohousing, or in a worker cooperatives, or ANY organizational setting where people want to learn how to self-govern based on the values of equality.

What is Sociocracy?

The Sociocracy approach to self-governance combines consent decision-making, a decentralized system of authority and intentional processes to improve our decisions and processes over time into a governance system that supports effective and efficient processes while increasing connection, listening and co-creation among members. Sociocracy is used in businesses, intentional communities such as cohousing, nonprofits, worker cooperatives, grassroots groups and in education.

A summary of Sociocracy’s basic concepts and principles is available at:
https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/