Cohousing-L Mailing List: Sociocracy & Consensus

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

It appears that sociocracy may be a whole governance system that uses
consensus decision making.

One of my problems with using consensus in place of parliamentary procedure
is that consensus is only a criteria for decision making. There is a lot
more to running an association (or social system) than consensus.

The first decision making level in parliamentary procedure is "general
agreement". The chair says "Hearing no objections, we have general
agreement" or something like that. In a good organization with good leaders,
most decisions are made by consensus -- they just don't call it that.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


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