Sociocratic principles vs. practices

I am immersing myself into the exploration of sociocracy and have come to the conclusion that sociocratic principles can be implemented in many ways. It’s the principles that are important, not the practices! The strength in emphasizing the practices is that they are easy to remember and can serve as means to ensure consent, etc. However, the weakness of too much focus on strictly following the practices is inability to accept the same ideas in any other form or vocabulary. The focus too easily become rigid adherence to dogma. We need to be open to new expressions of the initial intentions of the principles.

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Sociocracy is a method, and still it isn’t
Implementing sociocracy without sociocracy
Sociocracy as practiced by the G/wi
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Scaling sociocracy is all about the context
Unspoken sociocratic principles
Cultural dimensions of sociocracy
A prerequisite for sociocracy is a socios

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