Shared Governance Through Sociocracy

Last weekend I attended a workshop hosted by the Canadian Unitarian Council's UU Ecosystem Project called "Shared Leadership through Sociocracy". To be honest, I didn't really know what I was going to learn, but sociocracy sounded vaguely familiar, and the workshop description promised I would learn about collaborative government models that support distributed leadership and better, more resilient decision-making. To be perhaps too honest, I expected it would probably be fairly dry and boring, but still, maybe have some useful info on organizational structure in Canadian UU churches, nonprofits and beyond. To my delight, I ended up totally enraptured. Sociocracy was introduced as a governance system, a member of a category also containing for instance "democracy" and "Robert's Rules of Order", a system often used in business meetings and legislative bodies. Robert's Rules of I Want to Win 🔗 One presenter started by pointing out some flaws in traditional ways of running governance…