Creating the conditions for reflective team practices: examining sociocracy as a self-organizing governance model that promotes transformative learning

Owen, Renee; Buck, John A.

doi:10.1080/14623943.2020.1821630

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“…Sociocracy is a governance method designed to make decisions by hearing everyone and by reaching consent on the basis of common denominators rather than on the basis of a confrontation between opposing views in a vote (Owen and Buck 2020;Rios 2011). Again, this system has strengths and weaknesses.…”

Section: The Second Avenue: Spreading To 'Mainstream' Neighbourhoodsmentioning

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From countercultural ecovillages to mainstream green neighbourhoods - a view on current trends in Denmark

Nielsen-Englyst¹,

Gausset

2023

Preprint

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This paper describes how the ecovillage model for sustainability is currently spreading in Denmark through two different avenues. The first avenue the creation of new eco-communities inspired by the ecovillage movement. While traditional ecovillages have been established through bottom-up grassroot engagement, eco-communities are usually created through top-down municipal support or from the side by the involvement of professional community builders. A commercial market for eco-communities is emerging, creating a diverse range of eco-communities that attracts segments of the Danish population that the traditional bottom-up ecovillage model does not. The second avenue is the spread of some aspects of the ecovillage model to “mainstream” housing neighbourhoods through the green neighbourhood movement, when neighbours meet, discuss what kind of sustainable interests they share, and act together to change their environmental practices and to live more sustainably. Although eco-communities and green neighbourhoods will probably achieve lower carbon footprint reductions than ecovillages, they are exploring interesting avenues through which the spread of the ecovillage model, which is slow, costly, and exclusive, can be sped up and reach a tipping point. This evolution of ecovillages can trigger a mass movement that has the potential of bringing widespread changes, on a scale compatible with what is required to address the current climate crisis.

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Section: The Second Avenue: Spreading To 'Mainstream' Neighbourhoodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From countercultural ecovillages to mainstream green neighbourhoods - a view on current trends in Denmark

Nielsen-Englyst¹,

Gausset

2023

Preprint

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“…The philosophy of a sociocratic organization is based on concepts from cybernetics and biomimicry (Buck & Villines, 2017;Owen & Buck, 2020), where the organization mimics nature to maintain a dynamic equilibrium. A metaphor for the sociocratic organization is a living organism, which is adaptable, complex, and interconnected with other living organisms (Laloux, 2014).…”

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Living Democracy: Social Structures that Promote Civic Learning

Hoggan,

Hoggan-Kloubert,

Owen

2023

Adult Learning

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Democracy is not only a system of government, but also an overarching way of living together. It is through the social structures we live in and the resulting social relations, behaviors, and norms emanating from those structures, that we learn how to live together, democratically or otherwise. Adult education can promote the learning of democracy by helping people develop social structures that are democratic in form and function. Drawing on examples from Europe and the U.S., this article presents two such structures: (1) the system of voluntary associations in Germany; and (2) sociocracy as a form of democratic institutional governance. This article discusses how these structures can promote processes through which participants practice living democratically. Six principles for adult civic learning are thus derived: Inclusivity, Horizontal Relationships, Polycentricity, Confluence of Expert and Amateur, Interdependence between Specific Situations and Larger Contexts, and the Reciprocal Nature of Civic Learning and Solidarity.

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“…Additional concepts and practices are needed. Sociocracy 3.0 (S3) is based on a governance model that focuses on the equality of individuals (26)(27)(28)(29)(30). It is built on seven principles that shape organizational culture: effectiveness, consent, empiricism, continuous improvement, equivalence, transparency, and accountability (30,31).…”

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“…In Sociocracy, decisions are made based on “consent.” This means that a decision can be made if there are no overriding objections from the team members against making that decision ( 30 – 32 ). If there are substantial objections, the proposal will be amended until the objections are resolved ( 26 , 29 ). To avoid the trap of consensus, explicit consent to a decision by all team members is necessary.…”

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Development of a toolkit to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care using qualitative interviews and co-design workshops

Sirimsi

Lööf

Broeck

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundDespite numerous attempts to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration (IPCI) in primary care, patients, care providers, researchers, and governments are still looking for tools and guidance to do this more efficiently. To address these issues, we decided to develop a generic toolkit, based on sociocracy and psychological safety principles, to guide care providers in their collaboration within and outside their practice. Finally, we reasoned that, in order to obtain integrated primary care, different strategies should be combined.MethodsDevelopment of the toolkit consisted of a multiyear co-development process. Data originating from 65 care providers, through 13 in-depth interviews and five focus groups were analysed and subsequently evaluated in eight co-design workshop sessions, organised with a total of 40 academics, lecturers, care providers and members of the Flemish patient association. Findings from the qualitative interviews and co-design workshops were gradually, and inductively adapted and transformed into the content for the IPCI toolkit.ResultsTen themes were identified: (i) awareness of the importance of interprofessional collaboration, (ii) the need for a self-assessment tool to measure team performance, (iii) preparing a team to use the toolkit, (iv) enhancing psychological safety, (v) developing and determining consultation techniques, (vi) shared decision making, (vii) developing workgroups to tackle specific (neighbourhood) problems, (viii) how to work patient-centred, (ix) how to integrate a new team member, and (x) getting ready to implement the IPCI toolkit. From these themes, we developed a generic toolkit, consisting of eight modules.ConclusionIn this paper, we describe the multiyear co-development process of a generic toolkit for the improvement of interprofessional collaboration. Inspired by a mix of interventions from in and outside healthcare, a modular open toolkit was produced that includes aspects of Sociocracy, concepts as psychological safety, a self-assessment tool and other modules concerned with meetings, decision-making, integrating new team members and population health. Upon implementation, evaluation and further development and improvement, this compounded intervention should have a beneficial effect on the complex problem of interprofessional collaboration in primary care.

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Creating the conditions for reflective team practices: examining sociocracy as a self-organizing governance model that promotes transformative learning

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

From countercultural ecovillages to mainstream green neighbourhoods - a view on current trends in Denmark

From countercultural ecovillages to mainstream green neighbourhoods - a view on current trends in Denmark

Living Democracy: Social Structures that Promote Civic Learning

Development of a toolkit to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care using qualitative interviews and co-design workshops

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