Cohousing-L Mailing List: governance and decision making resources for cohousing (sociocracy)

[Jerry Koch-Gonzalez (jerry]

Dear Communitarians,

We know that more and more cohousing communities are playing with
sociocracy (Dynamic Governance). More than 80 according to the directory of
the Foundation for Intentional Community! Since I have lived in cohousing
since 1994 and worked with lots of communities, cohousing is a focus area
of ours.

Sociocracy For All offers sociocracy resources, training, and networking.
This is what we've got for cohousing communities:

*For newbies:*

   - If you have no idea what sociocracy is and what we're talking about
   here, go to our start-here page
   <http://www.sociocracyforall.org/start-here>, or join us on Aug 27 for a
   free intro webinar
   <https://www.sociocracyforall.org/event/free-intro-aug2020/>.

*For beginners:*

   - Individuals can learn the basics of sociocracy in our 6-hour online
   workshop <https://www.sociocracyforall.org/events/category/primer>.
   - Groups of 4-7 people can learn sociocracy together in our study-group
   curriculum <http://www.sociocracyforall.org/elc> (8h total). All online!


*For sociocratic communities or forming communities:*

   - Are you aware that we offer a free template of a governance agreement
   on our community resources page
   <http://www.sociocracyforall.org/community>? You can copy it and adapt
   it to your own wording and circumstances. The same page also has case
   studies and videos.
   - Need a way to orient new members? Some sociocratic communities
use our study-group
   curriculum <http://www.sociocracyforall.org/elc> - also to refresh
   sociocracy among the old ones!
   - Facilitation training
   <https://www.sociocracyforall.org/events/category/decision-making> -
   train some of your people to be excellent facilitators! See recordings of
   sociocratic meetings, printable posters, and all kinds of helpful
stuff on our
   facilitation page <https://www.sociocracyforall.org/facilitation>.

*For anyone:*

   - Living together and self-governing of any kind works much better if we
   communicate better. That's why we always train Nonviolent Communication
   
<https://www.sociocracyforall.org/events/category/communication-and-connection/>
alongside
   governance and decision-making training. Small, intimate classes - learning
   online actually works well.


Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
Co-Founder
, Sociocracy For All <http://sociocracyforall.org/>
Founding Resident, Pioneer Valley Cohousing Community
<http://cohousing.com/>

To talk to me about sociocracy or NVC, go here:
https://talktojerry.youcanbook.me