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The Same Problems, Over and Over: What Organizations Can Learn from Buddhism

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | October 1, 2026 | blog | 0 Comments

Anyone who has worked in organizations for a while knows the pattern. The reorganization recreates the silos it was meant to break up. The new process, three years later, is defended as fiercely as the one it replaced. The same conflict between the same two...

Latest Updates to the S3 Practical Guide (Part 2)

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | April 22, 2024 | blog | 0 Comments

Over the years, we incrementally refined how the practical guide presents organizational development and organizational structure. After much deliberation in the last year or two - relating to helping organizations work with the Common Sense Framework, and to studying...

Latest Updates to the S3 Practical Guide (Part 1)

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | April 22, 2024 | blog | 0 Comments

In 2024 we made two significant updates to the Practical Guide: we introduced Requirement as a core concept distinct from the Driver, and we revised how organizational development – especially organizational structure – is presented in the guide. Those changes distill...

S3-Templates for Remote Collaboration

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | March 26, 2020 | blog | 0 Comments

A couple of years ago I created some resources for online collaboration that might be of relevance these days: Templates for Decision Making in Google Docs, covering Proposal Forming and Consent Decision MakingA set of templates for a simple and scalable Sociocracy...

Leitfaden für virtuelle Meetings – neues Ebook

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | March 24, 2020 | blog | 0 Comments

Nachdem sich nun plötzlich sehr viele von uns in der Situation befinden, wahrscheinlich für die nächsten Monate von zu Hause aus arbeiten zu müssen, habe ich einen Leitfaden für virtuelle Meetings verfasst, um kleinen einen Beitrag dazu leisten, diese Arbeit so...

Offenes #s3dojo am 3.-6. Juni 2019 in Wien

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | April 18, 2019 | blog | 0 Comments

Ein “Dojo” ist ein Raum, in dem man gemeinsam lernt, übt und praktiziert. Ein #s3dojo öffnet den Raum, um Soziokratie 3.0 zu erleben, zu erlernen und zu vertiefen. Es ermöglicht praktisches, erlebnisorientiertes Lernen sowie die Anwendung des Gelernten, dabei werden —...

S3 Dojo Posters, Part 2

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | November 14, 2018 | download, s3dojo, Sociocracy 3.0, workshops/trainings | 0 Comments

Here's the second part of the posters I use in my S3 dojos to give people an overview over S3, the lens we view organizations through, and how people can use 70 patterns to respond to various challenges and opportunities in their organizations. You can download the...

S3 Dojo Posters, Part 1

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | November 14, 2018 | download, s3dojo, Sociocracy 3.0 | 0 Comments

I have developed a set of posters for my S3 dojos, which I will make available under a Creative Commons license. The posters work well when printed in A1, for larger groups A0 might be a better choice. The first poster I want to share is a poster about the Cynefin...

Der S3 Primer – Grundlagen und Moderationshilfen für Sociocracy 3.0

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | June 2, 2017 | blog, download, news | 0 Comments

Im Rahmen meiner S3 Trainings und Workshops habe ich einen "Sociocracy 3.0 Primer" entwickelt, der die Grundlagen zusammenfasst und detaillierte Moderationsanleitungen zu allen wesentlichen Formaten (z.B. Konsententscheidung, Einwände integrieren, Wahl, Proposal...

Hypothesengetriebene Agile Transitionen mit Sociocracy 3.0 auf der OOP-2017

by Bernhard Bockelbrink | February 10, 2017 | blog, slide deck, workshops/trainings | 0 Comments

Die Transition einer kompletten Organisation wirft viele Fragen auf: Was ist agile Buchhaltung, agile HR, oder agiles Management? Gibt es eine Blaupause für agile Organisationen, oder muss man das alles irgendwie selbst heraus finden? Und wie begegnet man dem...

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