Offer of Facilitation and training
Paul
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From the start I have wanted to get a professional facilitator for the group who can teach us sociocracy or holacracy. Being un able to find anyone I took on facilitation myself but have kept looking and today got an offer even better than I had imagined!
Stephan Jenner is a holacracy trainer based in Perth. Check out his profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanjenner http://www.futurelogic.com.au/
Details of his offer:
First a 1 hour webnar introduction to holacracy.
Usual meeting schedules he builds into groups:
15 to 30 min weekly tactical meetings.
1.5 hour governance meeting every month.
He will facilitate the meetings for the first 3 to 6 months. (to the point where we are empowered to facilitate our own meetings using holacracy)
He will be on call to help us or initiate new members for a further 6 months.
He is running introduction to holacracy days in Sydney (May) and Melbourne (Feb) and a few people from our party are welcome to attend.
Conditions, what is in it for Stephan, why is he offering to help us?
Stephan likes what we are doing and recognises that we are not for profit. He wants to do more holacracy training in Australia but realises that it needs a profile here first. By helping us, if we are successful we make a great reference for holacracy and his ability to train people in it.
Notes:
*For Holacracy to work we must come under a legal structure.
*It requires all participating members to learn how to operate using holacracy, Stephan will train and guide us, we have to commit to turn up and use the system.
*Phone meetings work well with holacracy in his experience.
*Sub groups as we have set up are still used to do the actual work of the party.
*Our meeting times would have to take Perth time into consideration.
*He uses Glass Frog to organise groups using holacracy, we will get best results by using it.
If there is overwhelming support for this proposal lets talk about it on Tuesday get back to Stephan with our response.
-PAUL-
Ricky Jefferyes Fri 17 Oct 2014 10:13PM
It sounds like a waste of time to me. I think SOL's democratic system is working fine and we don't need an executive to tell us how to do things.
Oliver Minter Sat 18 Oct 2014 1:32AM
I'm very interested to give this a try. I think we need all the help we can get. I'm definitely open to seeing if this will make things work better and easier and more professionally.
Paul Sat 18 Oct 2014 2:34AM
I am stoked to have the opportunity to have a professional help with facilitation and organisation, what a chance to learn and practice holacracy!
Peter Lindsay Sat 18 Oct 2014 3:53AM
As long as it simplifies and speeds up the decision making process, I'm all for it.... that said, my main interest and skills are the visuals and I tend to work better alone.
Francois Mon 20 Oct 2014 10:09AM
I would be very very happy to learn that Paul.
Should we approach the decision to use it in a democratic manner or through consensus.
All good four me.
François
Paul Mon 20 Oct 2014 9:13PM
'True' consensus is a disastrous decision making method as it empowers one person to block the group from moving on for there own agenda. Modified consensus is just majority vote called consensus.
If we can all put our ego aside and make a decision on this based on what is best for the party and what is going to give the party the best chance of getting someone elected. Lets vote at the next meeting.
Francois Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:12AM
Hopefully this afternoon.
Oliver Minter Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:28AM
@francois1 there is NO meeting this afternoon. Please check your emails.
Francois Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:36AM
Which one
Joum · Fri 17 Oct 2014 10:10AM
Sounds great. Thanks for finding this great opportunity Paul. I am very keen to give it a go.