John Buck’s
Weekend Workshop
September 18th & 19th, 2009
One half-hour south of Asheville, North Carolina
The workshop fee is only $200.
That’s pretty low for a two-day workshop!
‘To Lead’ - An Introductory Workshop
Lead by Gilles Charest and John Buck
October 1st & 2nd, 2009
At Montgomery Community College in Takoma Park, Maryland
$500 before September 10th, $550 after
Contact Monika Megyesi, Center for Sociocratic Governance
monika.megyesi@sociocraticgovernance.org
BEYOND DEMOCRACY is a 90-minute film telling the story of how, in the 1960s and ’70s, a Dutch engineer named Gerard Endenburg developed a form of governance called sociocracy for any type and size organization, that is efficient, restricts power centralization, creates other bottom lines besides money, treats participants humanely, uses surprising and fun processes, and owns itself. I will follow three organizations: one being introduced to sociocracy, one that is in the process of adopting it, and one that has used it for many years. I will also show how sociocracy was developed, how it works, why there is an acute need for it today, and its potential as a political system.
In the late 1960s Gerard Endenburg, a Dutch engineer, was running an electronics firm with 100 employees. He wanted to run the company humanely, while maintaining and even improving efficiency and competitiveness in the marketplace. Forty years later, there are approximately 200 companies, non-profit organizations, schools, intentional communities, police departments, hospitals, and other organizations around the world that have used or currently use the methods and principles Endenburg developed.