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-
Francois Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:42AM
Cheers
Ricky Jefferyes Tue 21 Oct 2014 6:21AM
Paul says "‘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."
This shows that his values are not representative of what Senator Online wants to achieve. I believe that SOL is all about consensus.
Ricky Jefferyes Tue 21 Oct 2014 6:22AM
We don't need an executive to tell us how to have a meeting and we don't need his stinking Holacracy either.
Ricky Jefferyes Tue 21 Oct 2014 6:24AM
And why would someone use Loomio to say that we should vote in our next meeting? I can see SOL and all of it's direct democracy values being thrown out the window here.
Francois Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:04PM
@ricky maybe it would be good to consider a different approach to the ways you may think you know a lot about. Including Consensus. FYI I will do the same.
Awaiting you response.
Ricky Jefferyes Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:25PM
@francois1 if there's something that you think you know about consensus that I don't then please share it.
Francois Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:30PM
Just following my nose when someone says it stinks
Francois Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:32PM
And my nose is not a nose it is a peninsula. (Cyrano De Bergerac)
Ricky Jefferyes Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:35PM
I don't know what you are talking about @francois1. Please stop talking in riddles and just tell me what you are trying to say in plain understandable English.
Oliver Minter · Tue 21 Oct 2014 12:40AM
Re: Date for next meeting??