Cohousing-L Mailing List: Sociocracy Workshop in Maine

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Re Sociocracy workshop at Belfast Cohousing

Hello,

I'm so glad the folks at Belfast Cohousing (many of whom I've met and
like a lot) are going to learn the Sociocracy governance and decision-
making method in their  April 27-29 workshop with John Buck. John is
the man who learned to read Dutch so he could write about it in
English, in the book We the People, which he co-authored with Sharon
Villines.

AND I'm so glad Belfast Cohousing is inviting other cohousers to join
the workshop. I highly recommend Sociocracy for cohousing communities.
I believe it's far more effective and fulfilling than consensus
decision-making, which I taught for years.

If you're in the New England or Northeast US area (or in Quebec or
Toronto) I urge you to consider attending Belfast Cohousing's
Sociocracy workshop. Here's the link:  http://mainecohousing.org

I just taught an introductory Sociocracy workshop to my community
(Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina), and the people who attended
loved the idea of trying Sociocracy instead of what we have now:
consensus-with-unanimity, with no recourse if someone blocks.

Right on, Belfast Cohousing!

Diana Leafe Christian


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