Growing Organizational Agility with Sociocracy 3.0 – Practitioner Course November 5 – 2025

Navigate complexity, raise engagement, and improve agility and performance throughout the organization, with Sociocracy 3.0.

Build essential skills to boost collaboration, navigate complexity, and help your organization and its members thrive in today’s rapidly changing world.

Tailor Collaboration to Your Context

S3’s iterative, needs-centric approach to improving collaboration and developing your organization enables you to move beyond the limitations of prescriptive methods and frameworks. By keeping what works and addressing key challenges and opportunities using Sociocracy 3.0 patterns, you can refine and develop a tailored, fit-for-purpose approach that suits your unique organizational context.

Learn From the Source

This course is developed and guided by Lili David and James Priest, co-developers of S3. They are delighted to share numerous insights and practical tools that you can start using immediately to boost your organization’s effectiveness and maximize your ability to deliver value to the people you serve.

Lili and James embody the S3 principles and walk their talk. There are not many people who can achieve this level of engagement from participants that sparks deep conversations and creates change.  Marcin K.

I’m inspired by the energy that you both bring with your skills, the way they complement each other, and the transparent union in your actions. How much inner development it brings!  Xana P.

• 10+ hours of self-paced e-lessons
• 3 days of immersive experiential learning
• 3 follow-up sessions (online)

What this course will help you achieve:

• Make manageable improvements that align with your current organizational context and needs without feeling overwhelmed or getting stuck in familiar ruts.
• Harness collective intelligence distributed throughout the organization, make effective decisions, and use your limited time, effort, and resources wisely.
• Evolve fit-for-purpose structure to reduce waste and maximize value creation throughout your organization.
• Build organization-wide agility to respond quickly and effectively to the challenges and opportunities you face.
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration with engaged people motivated to contribute, improve effectiveness and take responsibility for organizational success.

This course includes: 

Self-paced e-lessons

Build a solid foundation of knowledge and understanding on which to grow your practice and get the best out of Sociocracy 3.0.

To help you prepare and get the most out of the 3-day immersive training, you will receive access to a comprehensive e-course comprising several hours of self-paced video and text lessons.

The e-learning is divided into two parts: essential and optional, allowing you to tailor your learning experience. The essential lessons provide the foundational knowledge and understanding necessary to participate effectively in the 3-day course. The optional material offers opportunities for deeper exploration based on your interests and organizational needs.

Be sure to allocate 6+ hours to complete the essential lessons at your own pace and an additional 6 hours or more if you’d like to work through all the lessons in the E-course.

3-day Immersive Training

Experience the benefits of S3 principles and patterns in practice and develop powerful, immediately applicable new skills.

During this highly experiential 3-day learning journey, you’ll collaborate with peers to build your understanding and competence as you apply dozens of Sociocracy 3.0 patterns to respond to a wide variety of typical organizational needs.

From handling governance and operations effectively to growing agile and responsive learning organizations, you’ll learn how to start putting S3 patterns together to harness distributed intelligence and use your limited time, effort, and resources wisely to realize your organization’s fuller potential.

What you can expect: 

• Kick-start a simulated organization using 50+ Sociocracy 3.0 patterns, progressing swiftly from initial concepts to action in self-organizing teams.
• Develop facilitation and collaboration skills through hands-on practice.
• Explore approaches for evolving dynamic organizational structures that enable the continuous flow and delivery of value.
• Engage in guided reflections with peers to deepen your understanding of the patterns and principles in action and discover the deeper thinking behind Sociocracy 3.0.

Schedule: We start at 9:00 and finish at 17:30. We take two coffee breaks and 1 hour for lunch.

Three x 1.5-hour mentoring and supervision sessions

These sessions ensure ongoing support as you transition from the training environment to applying Sociocracy 3.0 patterns in your organization. They provide the perfect opportunity to:

• Ask questions about your early experiments with S3 patterns.
• Receive feedback and deepen your learning with peers.

Join 3 x 1.5-hour mentoring and supervision sessions. Exact dates and times are confirmed near the start of the course.

Pricing Options

Two trainers and a group of 12-14 ensure exceptional attention to maximize your learning experience.

Certification Track

This course is part of the Certification Track for becoming an Certified S3 Practitioner. Additional steps such as completing assignments and decision-making practice sessions are required to obtain the certification. More information will be provided during the course. 

Cancellation, Postponement, or Transferring Your Enrollment

We understand that unexpected changes can sometimes disrupt your plans. For detailed information about our policies on cancellations, postponements, or transferring your place to a friend or colleague, please refer to our Courses – Terms, Conditions, and Disclaimers statement.

What past participants say:

A great workshop. Mindful, makes you think, reflect and make sense of the reality around you. The concepts & techniques are highly applicable in organizational environments.
Natalia – Agile Coach, Spotify

I have been on many workshops and training during my life and treasure some of them. This workshop will definitely be one of them. James and Lili are great facilitators and create a safe, open, and creative environment. I learned not only S3, which I had hoped for, but also about myself(ves), which will help me be more whole, authentic and therefore a better person and leader.

Anders L, Agile Coach, Crisp.se

Further information and testimonials: https://academy.sociocracy30.org/courses 

If you wish to participate in this course and the fee is beyond your means or the value you place on it, please contact us to explore how your attendance may still be possible. We wish to ensure that cost is no barrier to attending Sociocracy 3.0 courses.