ABOUT THE COURSE

Our next Sociocracy for Schools course starts on Monday 28th October at 6pm GMT (check your timezone here) and lasts a total of 12 hours spread across 6 weeks (2 hours per session).

The course aims to support people in schools, learning communities, educational projects and organisations with the implementation of a democratic governance based on sociocracy. The course is aimed at educators, school managers, parents, students and anyone else interested in applying democratic governance in an educational setting. In the course you will learn practical skills to implement sociocracy in your own context, whether in a school, community, university, organisation or family.

This course is based on learning through experience, as you will be organised into small groups to practice consent-based decision-making and open elections, which can be applied in any meeting with students, staff and parents. It also includes time for the participants to build a circle structure and learn the sociocratic decision-making process through role play with real examples that we collected from schools around the world. Participants are also invited to bring their own topics to the circle, so we can practice with issues relevant to the group.

The intention is the empowerment of the participants as you will have a chance to develop facilitation skills to immediately apply sociocracy in your context after the course. We offer a public course on a regular basis and you can also book a private training, which we can adapt to your own needs. Please get in touch via email to inquire: contact@wonderingschool.org

DETAILS

– Format of training: Online (via Zoom)

– Duration of training: 12 hours – 6 sessions (2 hours each)

– Dates: Mondays on: 28th Oct, 4th Nov, 11th Nov, 18th Nov, 25th Nov, 2nd Dec

– Time:  6-8pm GMT / 2-4pm ET / 7-9pm CET – Check your timezone here

– Max. number of participants: 12

– Price options (Sliding Scale): €150, €180 or €210 per person

If these dates don’t work for you, please fill our form to join the waiting list:

PRICE OPTIONS

We offer three prices for you to choose from based on your financial condition. All prices are in Euros.

• Sustainability: Supports the sustainability of the course and allows people who need financial support to pay the lowest price.

• Sufficiency: Allows the maintenance of the course. This is the average amount expected per participant.

• Affordability: This is a reduced price to make the course more accessible to those who need financial support. This is only possible with the support from people  paying the “sustainable” price.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Session 1 (28th October)

* All participants will have access to watch the School Circles documentary before the course (required)
– Introductions & Sharings
– Sociocracy in education
– Vision, mission & aims
– History of sociocracy
– Democracy & Sociocracy
– 4 principles of sociocracy
– Consent & Circle

Session 2 (4th November)

– 4 Sociocratic Roles
– Double link
– Election process
– Experience: sociocratic election

Session 3 (11th November)

– Review roles
– Practice: sociocratic election

Session 4 (18th November)

– Building the Agenda
– Decision-making process
– Experience: decision-making

Session 5 (25th November)

– Conflict mediation and Nonviolent Communication
– Practice: decision-making

Session 6 (2nd December)

– School circle structures
– Practice: design a circle structure
– Reflections & Closing