Podcast appearances and mentions of diana leafe christian

In this illuminating episode, join Tonielle as she unveils the transformative world of Sociocracy as a way to collaborate within groups and how dynamic decision-making tools can ensure facilitation can be fun and effective. She explains Sociocracy as a governance and meeting process and who it's most useful for. Drawing from her experience and training, Tonielle provides insights into the diverse applications of Sociocracy across different contexts. Delving into the core values and principles, including equivalence, effectiveness, and transparency, she navigates through the intricacies of consent versus consensus decision-making. The episode culminates in an exploration of the Sociocratic Circle Method process, the principles and practices of this methodology and how it relates to a new pattern of organisation structure. The dialogue covers an array of Sociocracy aspects, including roles and responsibilities, double links, facilitation, rounds, and meeting protocols. Additionally, it sheds light on integrating dynamic decision-making tools, offering her 'behind the scenes' session plan as inspiration for application in The Elder Tree context. Wrapping up with a thoughtful discussion on the significance of group agreements and feedback, the episode underscores their pivotal role in fostering a harmonious and productive work environment. Tune in for a captivating exploration of Sociocracy's transformative potential! Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Background 06:30 What is Sociocracy? 18:20 Values and Principles of Sociocracy 26:21 Dynamic Decision Making 35:30 Applying Sociocracy in Different Contexts 46:40 Consent vs Consensus Decision Making 59:32 Process of Sociocracy 01:10:25 Roles and Responsibilities 01:12:11 Double Links 01:16:02 Facilitator and Secretary 01:18:31 Rounds and Decision Making 01:24:34 Different Approaches to Rounds 01:27:45 Additional Resources 01:37:01 Introduction and Icebreaker 01:37:30 Check-in and Overview 01:38:38 Group Agreements 01:39:07 Check-out and Feedback 01:40:32 Dynamic Decision-Making Tools 01:50:11 Appreciative Challenge 01:51:36 Dotocracy 01:55:02 Additional Resources RESOURCES & BOOKS: The Sociocracy Consulting Group Online Trainings Free resources & guides from Sociocracy 3.0 History of Sociocracy Visit www.earthmumma.co with Tonielle for future sociocracy events in FNQ. We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy, by John Buck (Author), Sharon Villines Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy, by Sociocracy For All. People and Permaculture: Designing personal, collective and Planetary Well-being, ny Looby MacNamara Cultural Emergence: A Toolkit for Transforming Ourselves and the World, by Looby MacNamara. The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups by Starhawk. Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillage and Intentional Communities, by Diana Leafe Christian. The Findorn Foundation Ecovillage Training Grounding Vision - Empowering Culture; How to Build and Sustain Community Together. A manual for Participatory tools for social change facilitators, by Robina McCurdy, Earthcare Education.

Dans l'épisode 11 Qu'est-ce que la synergie humaine du Podcast Permaculture et transition de vie, je vous présente rapidement le parcours de la synergie dans les rapports humains, mon retour d'expérience de ce que cela m'apporté, le cadeau que je me suis offert... en espérant que cela vous inspire. Bonne écoute ---------------------- À la Forêt Nourricière, on parle de permaculture, ou comment créer des écosystèmes qui régénèrent la planète et l'humain. Les notions de synergie végétale et de synergie humaine y sont essentielles. Venant du grec ancien sunergia, signifiant coopération, la synergie est la mise en commun de moyens, pour arriver à un même but. Comment s'inspirer de la synergie végétale pour les rapports humains ? Quels outils utiliser ? Vous avez un projet collectif (écovillage, association, SCIC, groupes, GAEC, GFA, etc.),et vous vous posez des questions ? Allons donc voir de plus près comment se traduit la synergie dans les rapports humains sur le terrain… Partons d'une observation simple :  “À l'heure actuelle, entre 90 et 98 % des projets (associations, entreprises, communautés, éco-hameaux) échouent ou se dissolvent avant leur 5e année d'activité.” Extrait du livre Synergie dans les rapports humain, Franck Nathié sur la base de  chiffres de l'INSEE et de Diana Leafe Christian, spécialiste mondiale des communauté et du vivre ensemble. Ce constat est saisissant. Épuisement, déceptions, conflits… la synergie humaine ne va pas de soi.  Plusieurs pistes sont explorées à la Forêt nourricière pour développer une synergie humaine de qualité. Ressources pour aller plus loin :  L'article  Qu'est ce que la synergie humaine ? La vidéo de présentation Le livre synergie dans les rapports humains Soutenez-nous sur Tipeee !

On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we'll be talking about why it's so hard to live well together. How can we use the conflicts that arise in everyday living situations to reflect on why we are the way we are, how we can better understand the other, and how conflict can be leveraged to enrich our relationships, rather than deteriorate them? To answer these questions, correspondent Sen Zhan speaks with four experts in the field of communities and conflict navigation: Laird Schaub, Maria Silvia, Karl Steyaert, and Diana Leafe Christian.

On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we'll be talking about why it's so hard to live well together. How can we use the conflicts that arise in everyday living situations to reflect on why we are the way we are, how we can better understand the other, and how conflict can be leveraged to enrich our relationships, rather than deteriorate them? To answer these questions, correspondent Sen Zhan speaks with four experts in the field of communities and conflict navigation: Laird Schaub, Maria Silvia, Karl Steyaert, and Diana Leafe Christian.

When it comes to deciding who gets to make decisions and how decisions get made, the communities movement has done a lot to innovate more equitable and transparent strategies. In today's conversation with Diana Leafe Christian, we talk about the importance of solid governance models and decision making structures, how these structures and a lack thereof can impact everything from relationships to the ability to get things done, and specifically about Sociocracy, her preferred governance model. Diana Leafe Christian is the author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community. An Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) trainer for Gaia Education and editor of Communities magazine for 14 years, Diana has contributed chapters to three Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and Gaia Education books: Beyond You and Me, Gaian Economics, and Ecovillage: 1001 Ways to Heal the Planet. She is a Board Member of GEN-US. In 2017, she received the Foundation for Intentional Community's Kozeny Communitarian Award, a lifetime achievement award for contributions to the US communities movement. She speaks at ecovillage and cohousing conferences, offers consultations, and leads workshops in person and online internationally. With the ability to make things simple and clear, and drawing on a deep and broad understanding of community dynamics, Diana encourages effective and harmonious ways for groups to become healthy and thriving, and resolve the typical interpersonal challenges that can arise in any community. She has an upcoming six-week online Sociocracy course starting on April 30th and will be offering an Introduction to Sociocracy for Co-housers course on August 25th, ahead of the National Cohousing Conference in Madison, Wisconsin where she will also be speaking on her recent Communities magazine series Working Effectively with Especially Challenging Behaviors. You can find out more about these courses, trainings, and services by reaching out to her directly at Diana@IC.org You can pick up her books Creating a Life Together and Finding Community at the FIC Bookstore! If you want to learn more about how to find and purchase community property or any aspect of building community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, an extensive bookstore and lots of free educational materials. You can learn more about FIC and access show notes at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you'll consider donating through our website while you are there. Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I'd love to hear from you there! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.

In this episode of The Sacred Everything Podcast, we speak with Diana Leafe Christian about the do's & don'ts, goods & bads, challenges, and opportunities of Intentional Communities. Over the last thirty years, Diana's work has focused on intentional communities and community living, especially the process of starting thriving new communities. Her work addresses the perennial question of, "How do we thrive in our communities without stagnating from indecision and conflict?" The implications for the world - huge. She is the author of two books, Creating a Life Together and Finding Community, former editor of Communities magazine, and a Board Member of Global Ecovillage Network-U.S.

In this podcast, Zev Friedman shares how he started living and teaching permaculture at Earthaven Ecovillage, and then how that led to forming Co-operate Western North Carolina (Co-operate WNC). Along the way, Zev shares examples of different types of permaculture and the work that Co-operate WNC is doing. Diana Leafe Christian is host.

International communities expert Diana Leafe Christian shares what she learned from interviewing people from successful and failed communities, and the questions people who are looking for a community should ask. She tells about how she ended up living at Earthaven and why it's her forever home. She also tells the story of a woman and her snarling German Shepherd who drove into Earthaven without calling ahead – displaying all of the things not to do when seeking a community. Diana shares what she plans to cover in her Finding Your Community Home workshop and how it will benefit both folks looking for a community and communities looking for new members.

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Diana Leafe Christian is an author, former editor of Communities magazine, and a nationwide speaker and workshop presenter on starting new ecovillages, on building communities, and on sustainability. She lives in an off-grid homestead at Earthhaven Ecovillage in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, USA. She is the author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities (New Society Publishers 2003) and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community (New Society Publishers 2007)Tags: Diana Leafe Christian, sociocracy, consensus decision making, democracy, governance, N Street Consensus, dealing with objections, Community, Social Change/Politics

For decades, Diana Leafe Christian has been researching and giving workshops on ecovillages. She feels that sociocracy is one of the most effective methods of governance for serving intentional communities. It is a whole-system science that goes a step beyond consensus- governing practices. It uses transparency and inclusiveness, and creates a resilient and coherent system.Tags:  Diana Leafe Christian, intentional community, intentional communities, sociocracy, consensus governance, Earthaven Intentional Community, Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia, NVC, Non-violent communication, Marshall Rosenberg, conflict resolution, majority rule, circles, committees, power with, power over, Community, Social Change, Politics

For decades, Diana Leafe Christian has been researching and giving workshops on ecovillages. She feels that sociocracy is one of the most effective methods of governance for serving intentional communities. It is a whole-system science that goes a step beyond consensus- governing practices. It uses transparency and inclusiveness, and creates a resilient and coherent system.Tags: Diana Leafe Christian, intentional community, intentional communities, sociocracy, consensus governance, Earthaven Intentional Community, Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia, NVC, Non-violent communication, Marshall Rosenberg, conflict resolution, majority rule, circles, committees, power with, power over, Community, Social Change, Politics

Weather is on our mind. Marianne has water from all over the neighborhood flowing theoretical in a culvert through her yard. In reality, the whole yard is flooded.   Jenise is being inundated with snow. As a matter of fact, the power lines are down and the city of Big Bear is without electricity. Good thing Jenise has solar set up with batteries to serve their water pump and keep the kitchen and the main part of the house going independently from the grid. Her wood stove keeps her cozy and can double to heat water and food. Storm or no storm, Jenise is prepared and comfortable.   This got us thinking about being prepared for emergencies in general. California is prone to earthquakes, other areas have tornadoes, hurricanes, prolonged drought - you name it and it is happening somewhere and people have to be ready.   Earthquakes are the most likely emergency in Southern California and can cause power outages. Our minds were on that subject anyways due to Jenise being in the middle of one as we were recording. The first thing which came to mind was that in most urban situations no power means no water since electricity is needed to keep the water coming through the pipes.   Marianne is prepared with several 5 gal containers filled with tap water, a 275 gallon rain tank and several 55 gal barrels. She has charcoal water filters and wood to make a fire for boiling water. That still is not that much water, but her neighbors pool holds thousands of gallons of water, and as long as the basin stays intact it should be a good emergency water source for the neighborhood.   That let us to explore the importance of community in an emergency situation. We both think that the time to start getting to know your neighbors and explore ways to help each other is now. Once an emergency is upon us, it might be a little late in the game.   The idea of creating an off- grid challenge came up. It is certainly something to explore and flesh out more. For most of us, it would be hard to do. For example, driving a car is not exactly an off grid activity. I many areas, that is easily avoidable. In Southern California, not so much. Everything is built around automobile use. Houses are built far from stores. Kids don't have a safe way to walk to school even if the school is close enough.   Gardening is a great way to start cooperating. Not everybody needs to grow everything. Or seeds can be shared, and of course the bounty of the garden.   Jenise and her husband were in the big earthquake in San Francisco and had no power for days. That was pre-cell phone time and even communication was shut off. They pulled out their camping gear and were okay during that trying time.   We think that it is a good idea to have enough food for a while stored in your home. Jenise even recommends the freeze dried emergency food, Marianne rather sticks to rice and beans. We both agree that storing seeds with the idea to plant a garden in case of an emergency is a bad idea. As many a gardener knows - there is a bit of a learning curve involved to get to the desired end result of an abundant garden.   Jenise had read an article on 10 ways to prepare for an economic collapse. One of the suggestions we think is applicable for all times is to build a local economy and be more independent from needing goods from far away.   Imagine not only your food grown close by, but your clothing made by a seamstress or tailor down the street, somebody knows how to make shoes and it probably will be easy to find a home brewing enthusiast. An herbalist can take care of ailments, a massage therapist and yoga teachers all working together to keep bodies and minds healthy. I bet if we get to know our neighbors, we have lots of skills right around us.   Marianne knows that within walking distance of her house is an electrician, a plumber, a hairstylist, an alteration business, a soap maker, and several artists and hard core gardeners. That are a lot of resources and skills to draw on.   Now add the idea of bartering or an alternative currency and no matter what is going on in the world, this community could be thriving.   Diana Leafe Christian shares many ideas and tools for communities to work better in episode 75 and Nicole Bienfang offers a step by step guide to move towards working together as well.   Nonviolent Communication has come up in so many interviews lately that we feel it is time to learn this tool. We both believe that if something shows up in life over and over and over again, it is probably time to check it out. Stay tuned for a future episode in which we will share what we learned.   Nonviolent Communication Training Course Marshall Rosenberg CNVC org: The three hour version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXH4hNfgPg The nine hour version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4tUVqsjQ2I   Chris Agnos: How wolves change rivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q     Small efforts combined can make a huge difference. A shout out to our listeners for being part of the change. A big Thank You to all of you!   Buying a generator is another tip from the article. This is a must if a person in the household is in need of healthcare appliances which need electricity.   Another aspect of being prepared is keeping safe during a time when some people might want to take advantage of the situation. The article suggest to know who in the neighborhood is ex military or police, a hunter or a martial arts practitioner.   Other things to consider: A community food bank Communication Medical care   Then we started to talk about the Outlander. If you have read the books and saw the show, you know why once in awhile, one just has to talk about it.   Did you know that there is a podcast? You will enjoy it! http://www.outlanderpod.com/   This is the article which inspired this episode http://www.activistpost.com/2012/12/10-ways-to-prepare-your-community-for.html   Find us on iTunes here  Please rate, review and subscribe.   Here are the many ways you can connect with us Website: http://www.sustainablelivingpodcast.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sustainablelivingpodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sustainablelivingpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sustlivingpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA73SuaMBnBIaB5OdiL_y6Q Google+ LinkedIn

David interviews Diana Leafe Christian about what makes thriving intentional communities, especially spiritual ones. Diana shares her wisdom gained over 14 years as editor of Community Magazine and from her comprehensive do's and don'ts book for starting an intentional community, Creating a Life Together. She describes her favorite governance model, Sociocracy and her newest discoveries for successfully living in community.

Superhero Academy Podcast Diana Leaf Christian For full notes and key points, please visit LINKSOON Summary In this podcast, Nick Joyce and Marc Coppola interviews Diana Leafe Christian, author of the books 'Creating a Life Together' and 'Finding Community'. She lives in a sustainable community in the North Haven Ecovillage in Carolina where they constantly have activities concerning physical, social, and economic sustainability. Human beings in groups and community behave the same way and have the same kinds of challenges. The same kinds of resolutions tend to help those challenges. Regarding governance and decision-making, Diana encourages sociocracy rather than consensus. Sociocracy has 3 big values: equivalence, transparency and effectiveness. She ends by saying Governance is in the heart of the community and that the 3 aspects of a healthy, thriving, successful community are Oxytocin, Good Process and Communication Skills, and Effective Project Management. Main Questions Asked • What is your current living situation? [02:17] • What interested you in intentional communities? [05:47] • What's the first step to building a community? Is it acquiring land? [13:29] • What is your vision? [15:34] • What role do you think technology plays in governance? [51:30] Powerful Quotes • "Human beings in groups and community pretty much behave the same ways, the same kinds of challenges. The same kinds of resolutions tend to help those challenges." - Diana Leaf Christian [10:58] Links Mentioned Ecovillage Newsletter ecovillagenewsletter.org Contact Information for the Guest, Diana Leafe Christian dianaleafechristian.org Come check out more of what we do on www.valhallamovement.com www.superheroacademy.net

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live in an ecovillage or intentional community? In this interview, Diana Leafe Christian, author of the book Creating a Life Together- Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, talks about the joys and challenges of living in community. Diana Leafe Christian was editor of Communities Magazine for 14 years and is now publisher and editor of Ecovillages, a free bimonthly online newsletter. Diana spoke with Jill Cloutier, in August, 2005.  www.dianaleafechristian.org