Communities of Practice – The Sociocracy Consulting Group

A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group organized for the purpose of ongoing study and practice in applications and theory of sociocracy. Contact us for details on starting or joining a Community of Practice.

We offer three different basic types of CoPs:

Open CoP - has a minimum prerequisite of one of our introductory workshops, webinars, or equivalent experience. An open CoP is a place to explore, understand, and practice Sociocracy with learning focused on basics and fundamentals. Open CoPs will be be facilitated by a member of TSCG.
Specialty CoP - organized around a specific group and/or learning goals, with a prerequisite of our Foundations of Sociocracy training and a six session commitment. Specialty CoPs may be facilitated by either a member of the TSCG or a suitably experienced member of an Advanced Practitioner CoP.
Advanced Practitioner CoP - an integral part of our Advanced Sociocratic Practitioner training path, with a prerequisite of our Foundations of Sociocracy training and a 12 session commitment. Advanced Practitioner CoPs will be facilitated by a member of TSCG.

Custom Communities of Practice can be designed to meet your organization's specific needs - contact us for more information.

An Innovative Community Leader

Before adopting sociocracy, Rainbow Community School had a flagging reputation and struggled to fill empty enrollment slots. Since adopting sociocracy, enrollment has almost doubled and there is a long waitlist. The size of its campus has doubled, and the school has gained a reputation for being an innovative community leader.

Renee Owen, Executive Director, Rainbow Community School, Asheville, North Carolina

Ready to Use

The ideas have been cleverly worked out for a very long time and are at the point of being ready to be taught and used. We were well-trained and it is usable NOW. For 12 hours training this was a stunning achievement. Fantastic! Best bunch of new ideas I have heard for a long time.

Dave Burrows, Director, AIDS Projects Management Group

Skills for Community Success

...My ability to successfully navigate a meeting has grown significantly, and our community’s meetings are much more productive now. It was great to have a small class with such skilled, experienced, and responsive instructors...This is the first time in an online class that I felt so engaged, learned so much, and received so much value and personal attention. I highly recommend this class (Facilitating Sociocracy) for anyone who wants to improve their understanding, experience, skills, and enjoyment of sociocratic facilitation.

Hope V. Horton, Hart’s Mill Ecovillage, North Carolina

Moving Through Problems Together

Our community faced daunting financial and personality challenges on its path to getting built. Sociocracy helped everyone get over their problems by getting together. We now have a happy, thriving community and sociocracy is the basis of our governance system.

Founding member of a Vermont cohousing community

Increased Staff Engagement

Our practitioners and members of the staff seemed happy enough, but they weren't really engaged in the business of running our center. All the management thinking seemed to float up to me. Now, with sociocracy, everyone is communicating about our processes. We are getting more efficient and some of the load is coming off my shoulders.

Executive Director of a Vermont healthcare center

Fosters cooperation and trust

Sociocracy shifts us away from the old command-and-control structures with which most of us grew up -- structures that often fostered fear, control, and competition among people. What we have instead now is a system that fosters cooperation and trust, allowing room for a new way of working together. It's beautiful to witness.

Cynthia Kennedy, Founding Member, Open Floor International