The Sociocracy 3.0 Resource Library
Below you find a list of free resources about S3.
All the materials we create are licensed to you under a Creative Commons Free Culture License. The exact license is also referenced or included with each of the downloads. At bottom of this page you can find more information about the license and suggestions for attribution of derivative works.Other Languages
If you’re missing a resource in your preferred language, you can help create it. Even if you can only spare an hour or two, you can make a difference. Read more about the S3 Translation Project.
A Practical Guide for Evolving Agile and Resilient Organizations with Sociocracy 3.0
This is the official description of Sociocracy 3.0, it contains all patterns, the Seven Principles and S3’s key concepts. The guide is available in several formats and languages.
If you’re interested in what’s new, take a look at the changelog.
online version
A mobile-friendly version with an alphabetical index for looking up patterns fast.
eBook (pdf)
This eBook works best on tablets, desktops and for printing.
eBook (ePub)
An ebook for reading on your mobile phone, ebook reader (kindle, tolino etc.), tablet or desktop.
GitHub Repositories
The S3 Canvas Series
The S3 Canvas Series is a set of simple lightweight tools to bring more clarity and transparency to your organization: the Organization Canvas, Delegation Canvas and the S3 Team Canvas.
Filling in a canvas in a group typically takes between 30 and 45 minutes, and helps you to develop shared understanding around the organization itself, it’s domains, and your circles or teams.
Visit the S3 Canvas Mini-Site to read more and download the canvases in various formats:
The S3 Primer
The S3 Primer provides an overview of S3 and key concepts like drivers and domains. It contains those patterns most organizations want to pull in first, and facilitation guides for essential group processes: Consent Decision Making, Proposal Forming, Selection to Roles, Driver Mapping, Resolve Objection and Review Agreements.
For now it’s only available as a PDF in German:
Map of all the Patterns in S3
An overview over all the patterns and the pattern groups in S3, complete with the Seven Principles.
The Common Sense Framework
All resources about the Common Sense Framework are currently only available on the Common Sense Framework website.
The S3 Illustrations
All illustrations used on the S3 website, the practical guide and the primer are available for you to use in your own materials and websites.
See the project’s micro site for more information.
License
The Practical Guide, all the resources made available in the resources page, as well as all the pages of this website are licensed to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which is a Free Culture License.
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Attribution of derivative works
If you create a derivative work, the license requires you to attribute them. A good attribution contains title, author, source and license, like this:
This work, “[name of your work here]”, is a derivative of “Sociocracy 3.0 - A Practical Guide” by James Priest, Bernhard Bockelbrink and Liliana David used under CC BY SA. “[name of your work]” is licensed under CC BY SA by [your name].
If you include our materials in your websites or documents, you can attribute them like this:
“S3 Illustrations” by Bernhard Bockelbrink, used under CC BY SA. “[name of your work]” is licensed under CC BY SA by [your name].
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