Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Sociocracy and Consensus

[Tree Bressen (tree]

Hi Sharon,

Thanks for posting this (several weeks ago):

>This is the latest addition to my notes for using Sociocracy in 
>Cohousing. This is edited version of notes taken by John Buck from a 
>lecture by Gerard Endenburg on things a facilitator can do to achieve 
>consent. Maintaining equivalence is especially important in sociocratic 
>theory and practice because it produces the strongest participation in 
>decisionmaking,  produces greater compliance, and ensures quality 
>decisions. Tension is seen as necessary to creativity unless it is too 
>great and then it becomes destructive. A discussion has to maintain the 
>balance.

I've been collecting info on sociocracy, keeping it in a file, learnings
bits here and there from various discussions with cohousers and others,
seeing which parts are similar to and different from consensus and how it
fits.

I just learned from my latest reading which a friend at Twin Oaks sent me
that sociocracy is a direct spin-off from Quaker consensus.  I hadn't
realized that, usually it gets described as being "started at a Dutch
electronics company."  Which is also true, but incomplete.

Cheers,

--Tree



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