Sociocracy as Practice: Collaborative Governance for Regenerative Communities

How can sociocracy help organizations and communities navigate complexity while building more resilient, inclusive, and regenerative ways of working?

In this session, Ted Rau, Filipa Pimentel, and Roberto Spano explore how sociocracy is being applied across diverse contexts—from grassroots movements and volunteer networks to nonprofits, enterprises, governments, and the arts. Through practical examples and lived experience, they demonstrate how collaborative governance can strengthen participation, improve decision-making, and foster distributed leadership.

Learn how sociocracy supports organizations in becoming more adaptive, transparent, and effective while cultivating trust, shared responsibility, and collective intelligence. Whether you’re leading a community initiative, nonprofit, cooperative, or social enterprise, this conversation offers valuable insights into governance models designed for today’s complex challenges.

Speakers

• Ted Rau is a co-founder of Sociocracy For All, trainer, consultant, and internationally recognized author on collaborative governance. He has helped hundreds of mission-driven organizations implement sociocracy and is the co-author of Many Voices One Song, Who Decides Who Decides, and Collective Power.
• Filipa Pimentel has been part of Transition Network since 2011, supporting the development of collaborative culture, distributed leadership, and governance across the global Transition Movement. She serves in the Governance role at Transition Network International and is an accredited Sociocracy For All facilitator.
• Roberto Spano is a facilitator, educator, and activist working at the intersection of sociocracy, permaculture, solidarity economy, and regenerative movements. As a co-founder of multiple Spanish-speaking Sociocracy For All circles, he is dedicated to fostering biocentric governance and community regeneration.

This session is ideal for community leaders, facilitators, nonprofit professionals, cooperative members, Transition practitioners, and anyone interested in sociocracy, collaborative governance, regenerative leadership, and creating organizations that are more participatory, resilient, and effective.