This workshop offers participants the chance to learn about and experience a more inclusive decision making process.
Using consent to make decisions helps any kind of organisation achieve buy-in from team members at every level, so people really understand WHY they are working towards a goal.
In our experience, it has a number of benefits, including:
Promoting forward motion and experimentation – finding common ground through agreeing to proposals that are ‘good enough for now’
Balancing groups and individuals – preventing a majority having power over a minority
Including and hearing diverse voices – ensuring no-one can be ignored through proposals that are ‘safe enough to try’
This workshop is based on your facilitators’ real-life experience of implementing the approach over many years in a business setting. The session will give you a practical, hands-on taster, and enough knowledge to start exploring using consent-based decision making further.
We’ve enquired with Chad Sansing, and been given the go-ahead to create a channel in the MozFest Slack channel. That will be a place for participants to come together before, during, and after the session to keep in touch, share ideas, and enquire about next steps. We are currently working to create an alumni community of work in this area which we would like to invite participants interested in discussing this over the longer-term.
We will check both before and during the session about accessibility and inclusion requirements that might affect any decisions we make as a group to keep in touch with one another.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:As experienced workshop facilitators, both online and offline, and with a decade of experience of attending and running sessions at MozFest, we feel we are well-equipped to deal with varying numbers of participants. As part of co-operative networks, we plan to have a number of participants who are already known to us who can help run breakout groups should we have more than 18 participants. If fewer than 3 participants attend the session, we would pivot to more of a facilitated discussion model, helping participants with their specific needs.
What is the goal and/or outcome of your session?:In this workshop, you will
- gain a good grounding in using the consent process;
- explore the difference between voicing a preference and a ‘critical concern’;
- interrogate your own needs and those of others in a collaborative way;
Abi is a key organiser within Outlandish working and focuses much of her time in developing communication skills across the team.
Member of worker cooperative, Agile Collective, and collaborator at Outlandish helping to develop Building OUT, a programme of services designed to build openness, understanding and trust in teams.