Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Sociocracy in cohousing - resources for learning

[Ted J Rau (ted]

Thanks, Diana. The more direct link to SoFA's conference for communities is
here:
https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-in-communities-conference-2021

Adding to Diana's resources, all of SoFA's resources for communities that
are freely available are gathered on our community page
<https://www.sociocracyforall.org/community/>, including a number of case
studies and webinar recordings.

Ted

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:24 PM Diana Leafe Christian <diana [at] ic.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> If you're interested in learning sociocracy, the self-governance and
> decision-making method becoming increasingly popular in cohousing, I
> resources.
>
> It's easier for a forming cohousing group to use sociocracy effectively as
> compared to an already-existing community using consensus.  But an existing
> cohousing community _can_ successfully shift to sociocracy, and Pioneer
> Valley Cohousing in Amherst did it years ago.(See the video on youtube,
> Dynamic Governance for Intentional Community.) Recently Cambridge Cohousing
> successfully shifted to sociocracy after years of using consensus too. In
> Coho/US' Aug 29 Cohousing Over Time Conference  Jerry Koch-Gonzalez of
> Sociocracy for All (SoFA) and Norma Wassel, a member of Cambridge
> Cohousing, described how Cambridge Cohousing did it. (I just checked the
> Coho/US website to see how to see the recording of this and other
> workshops, perhaps for a fee, but I couldn't find a way to do it. I'll
> check with Coho/US and report back here. I'd love for people interested in
> sociocracy to see this presentation!)
>
> Another resource is SoFA's Sociocracy in Communities Conference on
> November 20 of this year.
> https://www.sociocracyforall.org/?s=Communities+Conference&lang=en   My
> workshop will be, " 'The Four Necessary Conditions' to Use Socicoracy
> Effectively in Intentional Communities."
>
> Today, Sept 20, is the deadline for the Early Bird Discount ($225) for my
> upcoming 10-Week Online Sociocracy Training, Oct 2-Dec 4 (10-noon Pacific,
> 1-3 Eastern).The regular price is $245-$445 sliding scale. We teach
> sociocracy specifically for cohousing and other kinds of communities, as I
> know community dynamics well and the kinds of things that can happen in
> communities that can enhance, or thwart!, using sociocracy effectively.The
> course features videos and handouts to see ahead of the weekly two-hour
> live practice sessions, and an optional Socicoracy Buddies program to talk
> one-on-one with a different course participant each week about what people
> just learned. Two different forming cohousing groups signed up for the
> training today, as well as communitarians in the UK, France, and Russia. It
> ought to be a lively and fu international group.
>
> Two other Special Discounts are available from now until Oct. 2. The
> Five-or-More-People-Discount, $200 per person, is to encourage several
> people from the same group to learn sociocracy at the same time — which
> works especially well for communities. And the Second Person Discount, $200
> per person, is offered to someone from the same group as a previous
> participant in our online course. For more information, diana [at] ic.org.
>
> Diana Leafe Christian
>
>
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