Talk: Post-consensus, cooperative decision-making
What should we do when consensus can’t be reached? What if cooperative decision-making is better achieved in such cases with practices other than “reaching consensus”?
For decades people wishing to organize in more cooperative ways have been encouraged to make decisions by consensus, and for good reason: when it works well, it’s awesome. However—when it doesn’t work—it can lead to guilt, frustration; organizational paralysis or disintegration.
In these talks I will explore how score voting can provide a simple, scalable and systematically cooperative alternative to the often utopian ideal of consensus—and explain how to do it.
Edinburgh
- When: Thursday the 26th of July, 18:30 - 20:00
- Where: Shrub, 17 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JG
- Links: iCal, Facebook event, Eventbrite event
Glasgow
- When: Monday the 30th of July, 18:30 - 20:00
- Where: Glasgow Autonomous Space {GAS,} Unit 11, 53 Kilbirnie Steet, Tradestone, Glasgow G5 8JD
- Links: iCal, Facebook event
London
- When: Thursday the 16th of August, 18:30 - 21:30
- Where: Newspeak House, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, London E2 7DG
- Links: Please book through Eventbrite. Also viewable on Newspeak House Events page and Facebook event