- Do you expect your organisation to continue?
- Do you anticipate expected and unexpected disturbances?
- Do you want to correct those disturbances with the minimum resources?
We need to go beyond Domination Culture
Domination Culture is a term used to describe the top down systems
of society which motivate people to act through fear, force and coercion. It is like a pyramid. The vast base is dictated and controlled from a smaller point.
Most of our mainstream systems of organisation are based on these principles starting in schools and seeping out into workplaces, communities and public services. Many people believe there is no other way and that these systems are a result of ‘human nature’. These systems are not serving us. Control is not the answer. Increases in crime, poverty and depression are important indicators as well as boom and bust cycles of economics.
What if, in light of the challenges and opportunities we face today, we questioned the very core of how we organise and the systems we use? Could we transform our most fundamental approaches to organisation
to bring about new levels well being, social capital and safety? Could we create organisations where people contribute willingly not out of fear from direct and indirect threats?
Radical new ways of running our systems are emerging. Pioneers are highlighting the limits of our conventional views of leadership and offering a glimpse of new possibilities available to us. Applying isolated principles and practices within our conventional framework shines a light on the possibilities but cannot produce the results we really desire.
To really achieve the promises of a new paradigm, we need a core upgrade to the way we govern, manage, and execute tasks.
From Master/Servant to Peer relationships
A transformative structure and process can integrate the collective wisdom of all members of a community whether that community is
a business, a family, a school, a neighbourhood or a workplace. Who better to tell you how to run a school than the students who constantly fall foul of the system? Who better to tell you how to reduce crime than the people who repeat offend? Who better to tell you how to organise a workplace but the people who repeatedly go off sick? But how do you give those people a voice without appearing to condone their behaviour?
The Centre for Peaceful Solutions has developed a people based operating system which draws on the work of Sociocracy, Holacracy, Nonviolent Communication and Deep Democracy.
We are actively looking for people who are interested in understanding more about these principles and who can envision a new way of organising.
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