John Heron: ‘Co-Counselling Teacher’s Manual’ June 1978, The chapter about ‘Decision Making Models’ pg. 29-30 suggest other decision making processes as well as ‘consensus’!
Charles Landry et al. ‘What a way to run a railroad. An analysis of radical failure.’ in Comedia’s Series: Organisations & Democracy’
A splendid analysis why so many egalitarian organisations of the seventies failed...
Decision-making: a hot topic.
At the moment several Co-Counsellors in the CCiS seem to take an interest in decision making processes.
There is the challenge of our growth too. The bigger the networks, the less everybody knows everybody. More and more new Co-Counsellors join the network. Also fewer and fewer things can be done in an informal way. Thus the decision making processes need to be clear and on paper to inform and involve them...
In the section above on Community Building, I proposed one model of decision-making for a Type One Community. But what are the alternatives?
There are two polar extremes here, with many distorted variants in between.
This is a highly effective and surprisingly efficient method of decision making. It works in any group whose members are prepared to take responsibility for some of the group process. In other words it works in peer facilitated groups and it can also work in hierarchically facilitated groups as long as the members can exercise some of their power.
The process goes like this:
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