Sociocratic Governance Variations

Rather than being a rigid governance framework, sociocracy is an evolving community of practice and there are numerous schools of thought within it:

• The classic Sociocratic Circle Method, based on the four key elements described above.
• A patterns-based approach promoted by Sociocracy 3.0 offers tools and methods to support self-governance (see: S3.0 patterns).
• A network governance approach using Consent Decision Making (see for example Circle Forward).
• Finally there are many customised versions that have been adapted to best fit the needs of individual organisations who have adopted sociocracy.