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?
Our certification program empowers you with highly effective methodologies for facilitation, decision-making, team building, and decentralized governance.
Consulting
Seeking sustainable, self-governing, and enjoyable systems?
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 ❤️
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Books by John Buck
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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.
