Sociocracy Workshop
| Event Start Date: 6th October 2016 | Event End Date: 10th October 2016 | Event Venue: Vanvadi, near Pune |
AhimsaGram and Vanvadi are offering a five-day residential workshop on Sociocracy from 6-10 October in Van Vadi, near Pune.
Around the world, people in communities, organizations, corporations, and political parties are looking for:
• A spirit of co-creation, co-responsibility and collective ownership of decision-making
• Efficient and meaningful ways to make collaborative decisions
• Communication and integration between different parts of organizations and communities
• Full transparency with safety and trust among team members.
Sociocracy is a design system that makes these goals achievable.
Its dynamic governance principles involve everyone in the organization’s decision-making processes; their voices matter equally. It is inspired by the Quakers, Cybernetics and nature’s way of operating.
It was developed in The Netherlands, first at an alternate school where the children’s learning space was governed in the spirit of partnership, and later at an electrical engineering company set up as an intentional management science laboratory. Since then, for-profit corporations, NGOs, schools, religious groups, communities, and networks in Europe, North and South America, and a few places in Oceania, Africa and Asia, including India, are using it successfully.
The workshop will be facilitated by John Buck and Shammi Nanda.
John Buck: A certified Sociocratic Organizational Consultant, John heads The Sociocracy Group operations in the United States. His career includes an extensive for-profit management experience. As a consultant he has led dozens of Sociocracy implementation projects for a variety of organizations, resulting in greater effectiveness and increased employee engagement. He believes that basic values such as equality, liberty, and transparency can make our work places dramatically more sustainable, elegant, and profitable.
He excels in customizing sociocratic principles to each organization’s particular concerns, work schedules, and professional focus. John has translated numerous documents from the original Dutch and is co-author (with Sharon Villines) of We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy. To know more about him & his work see- http://sociocracyconsulti ng.com/
Shammi Nanda: Shammi has been working on Nonviolent Communication(NVC) and sharing it all over India for the last five years. He has been searching for systems and processes which can allow genuine collaboration in our organisations and found Sociocracy as the most effective and inclusive system. For the last two years he has been learning and sharing Sociocracy in his communities and is passionate about bringing it to the people in South Asia. To know more about his work see www.courageouscommunicatio n.wordpress.com
The event is being co-hosted by AhimsaGram, Jaipur & Vanvadi.
Read more about the hosts below.
AhimsaGram is a community space in Jaipur holding a vision for a sustainable and harmonious world while working with communities and organisations. It is actively engaged in living, learning and sharing about Sociocracy for creating collaborative organisational design systems, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and life serving ways of conflict transformation like Restorative Circles. To know more about us see: www.facebook.com/ahimsagr am
Vanvadi is a 21 year old, 65 acre, collectively owned and regenerated bio-diverse forest, with about 2 acres under cultivated food crops, and over one acre of seasonal streams and water bodies. We aspire to evolve as an ecological forest village community. Our new community house can provide shared accommodation for about 25-30 people; and we encourage a community spirit of shared work and reciprocal learning and sensitivity. Simple vegetarian food is offered. There is no electricity, no piped water, and net connectivity is poor. But the natural ambience is delightful… lush forest, gurgling streams, the calls of birds and insects, … the sparkle of fireflies at night, and zillion glowing stars when the skies are clear!
Contributions:
This workshop is being offered on a sliding scale, ranging from Rs 12,000 to Rs 7,000. You can choose to pay whatever is comfortable in the given range.
We are trying our best to be inclusive as well as sustainable, so we can invite people who are expert in their fields from all over the world for the benefit of our extended community. We invite those who can pay more to share their abundance and those who feel challenged to pay the minimum amount, to apply for the scholarships by filling in the Scholarship request form shared in the registration form. Scholarships could be part or full depending on the situation of each individual. We are offering limited number of scholarships and if we have more resources we can offer more of them. We will try our best to accommodate all but if there is a challenge we may not be able to accommodate all the scholarship requests.
The money collected will be split & shared, with one-third going to Vanvadi (Local Hosts) to meet the food and stay cost & two-thirds to AhimsaGram (Organiser) & Facilitators.
Venue: Vanvadi, directions to reach Vanvadi from Mumbai or Pune are provided here: https://goo.gl/rqJMTK
Contact:
The event is being co-hosted by AhimsaGram, Jaipur & Vanvadi
For any queries, please write to: ahimsagram@gmail.com or
Call Uditima at 9782052645