Governance Alive

Want an inspired, effective, connected team?

What We Embody

Our world view envisions all of us working together in an inclusive decentralized way to build a resilient, regenerative, and sustainable earth… where every voice matters and all voices are heard.

We offer tools, methodologies, deep experience, and a passion for transforming society…to share with you.

Training

Ready to expand your skillset?

Our seven modules of training will enhance your abilities to transform society and yourself. This sociocratic framework can help you deepen any participatory activity.

Certification

Want to become a recognized expert?

With our certification, you can provide highly effective methodologies for facilitation, decision-making, team building, and decentralized governance. The International Sociocracy Certification Board (ISCB) enables us to offer your certification.

Consulting

Seeking sustainable, self-governing, and enjoyable systems?

To create the transformations you need and want, our consultants’ extensive experience weaves the foundation of sociocracy with the social technologies of beyond budgeting, open space, agile, and mediation.

Our Global Network

We have trained and consulted on sociocracy and related social technologies in over 20 countries. We plant the seeds of decentralized governance everywhere we go. We now offer you this knowledge and experience, so you can help establish decentralized organizations.

Our global community welcomes you!

Our Team

We are a joyful community devoted to transforming society. First, through our own inner transformation, then through the foundational pillars of sociocracy combined with other social technologies. Sociocracy has been successful since the early 1900s.

What makes the mass adoption of sociocracy now possible (besides humanity’s willingness), is technology like blockchain, distributed ledgers, and smart contracts.

Our core community consists of 18 members. John and Monika, the founding partners, have persevered through a VUCA decade, applying the principals and methods we strive to impart to you. Living what we teach.

John
Buck

Founding partner, lead trainer, certified sociocracy expert and source of sociocracy for the English speaking world. Consulting, training, and facilitation expertise with agile, open space and beyond budgeting. Decades of IT experience. Passionate about children (and adults) embodying and living in a decentralized world.

Monika Megyesi

Founding partner, lead trainer, certified sociocracy expert and self defined chaos bender. Certified mediator, facilitator and trainer. A life devoted to helping others experience a better life. Devoted to ensuring we embody the Governance Alive core values. Committed to creativity, diversity and giving everyone a voice.

community feedback

We have consulted and trained in numerous countries and cultures, our community has a wide variety of feedback to share. If we have impacted your life in some way let us know, we’d love to share it here ❤️

Governance Alive training helped our uniquely complex working organization navigate through the process of determining governance. John’s and Jess’s assistance was invaluable.

After having led and sat through many meetings in which anxiety and rancor are the rule, Sociocracy is a breath of fresh air. The Sociocratic process encourages us to listen, self-reflect and find clarity about the group's aim all at the same time. In the end, we get things done, but, astonishingly, all have participated, the loudest voice did not win and we used the heck out of our collective wisdom.

If you are interested in how to change the way communities, businesses, teams, and civic environment work, I can think of few more impactful approaches than, Governance Alive. The emphasis on interactive practice will continue to make this program impactful for changing our broken organization cultures

We adopted sociocracy 15 years ago and all of a sudden had energized people empowered and making decisions. We have fewer meetings, our decisions are better, and the follow-through is stronger because everyone's on board.

Our team had a great experience working with John Buck years ago. It fundamentally shifted how we structure initiatives, design meetings and make group decisions

Enlisted in the Navy, I wondered why the officers didn't listen to our ideas. As an officer, I wondered why I couldn't get the enlisted men to tell me their ideas. With more than 20 years of experience, I can tell you sociocracy solves this problem from both ends."

We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy

Our understanding of how the world works was fundamentally altered when the mechanical model of closed, linear systems was replaced with cybernetics and complexity theory. Sociocracy is a governance method that uses these new sciences to design organizations that are as powerful, self-organizing, and self-correcting as the natural world, including the honeybees.

Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting Open Space & Sociocracy

Today companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be Agile. Lack of an overarching theory about how to expand the Agile Manifesto has led to many fragmented attempts to apply Agile company-wide.