Elder Tree Foundations of Sociocracy in-person training

When every member of an organisation contributes to collaboration for collective aims, creativity, healthy relationships and results shine.

This two-day in-person experience builds fundamental collaboration skills - as provided by the sociocratic circle-organisation method (SCM). Such skills help people and groups be responsive and adaptive in real-world conditions with consent-based practices.

This training is participatory, engaging and inclusive - embracing dynamic and simulation-based activities. The practice of these foundational processes happens in a dynamic fictional organisation, mirroring common life experiences and group dynamics.

By course completion, participants are inspired to deepen their practice of responsive collaboration with the wind of sociocracy foundational skills firmly in their sails.

Sociocracy is a decentralised organisational governance system, helping organisations operate responsively and adaptively. Sociocracy supports self-organisation and distributed leadership, where everyone knows how to use their voice and work together effectively, transparently and with equal-value. Types of organisations using sociocracy include businesses, intentional communities, workers cooperatives, and faith-based groups.

This course is for you if:

- you’re actively engaged in a small to medium sized group or organisation, and

- your group is willing or curious to decentralise leadership and engage members with their natural creativity and perspective, and

- your group is willing to learn to operate by the values of effectiveness, equivalence and transparency.

EVENT DETAILS

Saturday 22nd November & Sunday 23rd November, 2025

9am to 4.30pm, daily.

The Jade House

Belaya Buyul community

Main Arm, NNSW

Morning and afternoon tea provided.

BYO a simple & delicious plate to share for lunch.

Elder Tree members: $225pp

Broader Community: $300pp

Become a member of The Elder Tree here:
https://www.theeldertree.org/becomeamember

Once you have purchased your ticket, be sure to RSVP on the Facebook event page here to be kept up to date:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1aEpYurrNj/

Please note that The Elder Tree organises sociocracy training like this every year for our volunteers. If we don't have enough volunteers and members who can attend then we open it up to the public.

ABOUT THE TRAINER / Erin Young helps create a more beautiful world by working with nature-informed practices to activate for-impact operators/organisations with creativity and collaboration. She is a consulting member of The Sociocracy Consulting Group, having worked with the methodology since 2012.

Erin holds a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering (Hons) with Brisbane’s Griffith University (2004). She first studied regenerative ecologically-based design by attaining her first Permaculture Design Certificate in Portugal in 2010.

Originating in Brisbane, Erin is now based near Eumundi on the Sunshine Coast, South East Queensland, where she forest-bathes in between mothering and baking sourdough bread.

Find out more about Erin and access her offerings here:
https://www.erinyoung.net/sociocracy

** Please note that this 2-day training is fully refundable minus a 10% admin fee, if you cancel up to one week before the training begins.