Gaia Community: John's Bookmarks tagged 'consensus'

Meeting Facilitation: The No-Magic Method

John — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:16:58 GMT

Meeting Facilitation: The No-Magic Method

I first learned of this via the Burning Man Webteam. Hosted at Reclaiming, a site devoted to modern witchcraft and paganism, yet subtitled No-Magic,

Tags: facilitation, civics, consensus, meetings, agendas, social capital, nash equilibrium, lifehacking, quaker

agendas & meeting procedures

John — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:54:50 GMT

agendas & meeting procedures

Meeting facilitation, especially when parties find difficulty in coming to agreement, can be an art. Use this checklist after understanding the approach guided in the companion document

Tags: facilitation, civics, consensus, meetings, agendas, nonviolence

Consensus: a working principle

John — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:01:05 GMT

Consensus: a working principle

Sure, Larry Harvey espouses 10 principles for Burning Man. They appear in each summer issue of the Burning Man newsletter. Organizations adopting them, however, do not automatically work. They are not the true principles deep at work underlying functioning communities. Instead, i find other deeper ones. Here is an honest and earnest description of one of them.

Tags: consensus, civics, authority, hierarchy, leadership, annual report, community, burning man