Emotional Awareness and Sociocratic Approaches to Self-governance

How can we organize ourselves to get things done effectively and collaboratively?

How do we optimize group intelligence to identify and realize shared goals, while allowing for individual diversity and delegation of authority?

How do we do these things with awareness?

Enjoy an experiential introduction to values, principles and practices of emotional sovereignty and sociocracy. The approaches presented are relevant to all types of organizations. Allowing more attention to emotional processes encourages deeper understanding and efficiency. Sociocracy offers a practical, holistic approach to collective decision-making, effective delegation, and getting things done - together!

This workshop will draw on participants’ own experiences, offering an opportunity to engage directly with issues of collaborative leadership and governance. We will introduce some meeting strategies used when emotional tension is high. These strategies may help diffuse polarities, increasing connection and forward movement. In sociocracy decisions are made by consent. People organize around the real work of the organization with feedback loops built in to enable individual and collective self-leadership.

The morning focuses on creating emotional awareness and several strategies to help individuals move through and beyond old emotional patterns. The afternoon will explore how to use sociocratic structures and processes in real-life contexts, to create and maintain high engagement, clear decisions, and commitment to action.

$50 early bird registration before April 10th

$60 registration after April 10th

Contact Tracy at 808-443-4076 or tracy@permaculture-hawaii.com to register: limited work trade available.

John is a whole systems design consultant, teacher, and facilitator who develops cultural and ecological systems for a variety of public, private, and nonprofit clients. Since 1996, he has studied, worked, taught and published in the realms of human relatings, governance and decision-making systems, appropriate technology and ecological design.
The methods, tools and techniques that John offers invite clients to maximize clarity, honesty, and integrity while also enhancing individual and group efficiency and effectiveness - in other words, to get things done and have more fun!

Tracy Matfin is an educator, connections facilitator, permaculture instructor and community consultant. She is a founding member of La’akea Community, www.permaculture-hawaii.com, where she has been living and experimenting with sustainability for more than fourteen years. Tracy practices what she teaches. She practices non-violent communication, peer counseling, Huna (a form of Hawaiian spirituality), couples counseling and group facilitation. When people learn from Tracy, they tend to feel connected with themselves, the earth and one-another--they feel good and have fun.

This song circle gathering will be held on the magical Big Island of Hawai'i, on April 18-21, 2019 during the powerful weekend of Full Moon, Earth Day, Easter, & 4/20! We gather in the tradition of Singing Alive at La’akea (Sacred Light) Permaculture Community in Puna for 3 days & 4 nights of Singing Aloha. http://www.singingalive.org/singingaloha/

This is an event inspired by, and in supportive relationship with, the Singing Alive community of sacred song circle enthusiasts. Though it is hosted on the Singing Alive website, it is not officially a Singing Alive event, rather it is a newly birthing, like the land that holds it, adventure in communal singing.

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Permaculture Principles Tour

April 27, 2019 @ 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

La'akea Community

$20-$40 sliding scale

Contact: Tracy Matfin 808-443-4076, tracy@permaculture-hawaii.com

Come join us for a tour with flare and focus! This tour will help you understand permaculture principles and basic desin methodology by looking applications here at La’akea Community. We will look at examples with ample time for questions and discussion this opportunity is sure to increase your understanding of how to apply permaculture to your own systems. Advance registration necessary. Please call or email Tracy.

More Info: call Aniko for more info at 214-4601 or reply to this email.

Description: Come join us for a tour of our community! Allow Aniko, one of our members, to walk you around the land, including our organic gardens, alternative building methods, off grid solar system, animals and orchards.

We are a committed group of people working together closely in community, on our 24 acre organic permaculture farm. We integrate the social aspects of sustainability into daily life: how to live together with honesty, love and peace, and share power and leadership. We do not have one central leader, but instead share the cost of the land and the leadership equally. This is a great time to tour the land and ask questions about community.