“Creative Community Governance and Decision Making”

Yesterday I attended Robin Clayfield’s “Creative Community Governance and Decision Making” session at Bondi. She is an excellent facilitator. She introduced a number of techniques for encouraging discussion and decision making. The ones in particular that I thought could work well for SCEV are ‘World Café’ and ‘Open Space’ for encouraging conversations and discussion, A process she called ‘Synthesis’ for asking people to start narrowing down their answers, comments, opinions. There was also some discussion around ‘Dynamic Governance/Sociocracy’ as the new-kid-on-the-block when it comes to decision making. I am presenting “A taste of Dynamic Governance/Sociocracy” in about a fortnight as a way of pursuing a decision making system for SCEV that by design encourages inclusivity, equality, transparency, accountability, creativity and discipline. I hope you will come along, see what you think and tell us if you think it would be good for our purposes.
PS: also happy to send you my notes on the process mentioned above.