We inspire and support collaborative decisions
We help people re-discover how to care for each other and create a culture where everyone matters. We create opportunities to experience effective collaborative decisions and see that it is possible.
With each decision that truly works for everyone, no matter how small, we help build a future with more participatory government, interdependent communities, restorative responses to conflict, and sustainable economies with needs-based distribution of resources.
We steward and share accessible practices for making collaborative decisions
We create, gather, share, and lead diverse ways of making decisions. We offer guidance for when to use different practices and translation between different frameworks. We also create community spaces and build networks of collaboration.
Our dream is to spread collaboration practices that are so accessible and supportive that everyone chooses to make decisions that care for all life.
Our vision for the future
People all around the world live in sustainable local communities rooted in collaboration, self-responsibility, and trust. In groups, organizations, and communities of any size, we make decisions that everyone supports. We feel moved to care for what needs to be done from a place of true willingness. We contribute our unique gifts and bring in our whole selves. We play together, help each other, and welcome feedback. We participate in regional and global networks to care for all life and to share our knowledge and resources. We choose what to do in ways that integrate everyone’s needs, including our own. Whenever we get stuck, we lean on simple practices to draw on collective wisdom, restore togetherness, and discover new possibilities. We bridge diverse perspectives through dialogue, acceptance, and shared commitments.
How can we help?
Decision-making and collaboration
We can support you with making more collaborative decisions at work, at home, and in your communities
- We facilitate and coach groups in discovering and adopting collaborative practices to care for everyone and get things done
- We teach how to make collaborative decisions through live practice with real-world challenges and controversial group decisions
- We design and shape decision-making systems and agreements that support efficient collaboration, reduce access barriers, and transform conflict into learning
Do you want to make more collaborative decisions but don't know how to make it happen?
Are you struggling with unsolvable disagreements, endless meetings, disengaged stakeholders, or unsupportive leadership?
Our facilitators can help create supportive conditions for decisions that everyone will fully endorse.
Living knowledge
We can provide a foundation of practices and ways to integrate them into your ongoing collaboration or daily life.
- We share relevant content from our living collection of practices for collaborative decisions
- We provide accessible and flexible tools and templates that anyone can use and adapt
- We offer collaborative editing approaches to integrate feedback and keep your practices relevant
Co-creation and connection
We can collaborate with you or connect you with others who share our passion for collaborative decisions
- We co-create events to develop and spread collaborative practices
- We offer community spaces where people share their knowledge and integrate diverse perspectives
- We provide opportunities to collaborate on projects with our collective
We can also talk to you and discover together what might be supportive. We love getting to know people!
We offer all of our work using gift economy principles.
Our history
In 2021, Roni started talking to other facilitators about their longing for more collaboration and integration of diverse perspectives on nonviolence. They wanted to transition from working as an independent collaboration consultant and facilitator into working in community. They dreamed of connecting different groups and frameworks into a network of mutual support. After attempting to connect a few existing groups and not finding a way forward, they decided to initiate something new. A place with a deep commitment to integrating diverse perspectives. An Integration Station.
Roni shared their vision and invitation, and several people answered the call. Melissa, Magda, Alice, and Sabine joined the early efforts to seed a new organization. Later we were joined by Jen, Leslie, and Marcela, and over time some people left and new ones came in. What emerged was a small collective of people committed to discovering together how to integrate diverse perspective while supporting others with collaborative decision making (CDM). Our work is always informed by our commitment to walk our talk as we engage in ongoing reflection and iteration to integrate what we discover. We also belong to several global and local communities that share our passion for creating a world where everyone matters.
We spent our first year as a collective developing our internal collaboration structures and experimenting with different CDM approaches. After connecting with our vision and learnings, we found a lot of energy for organizing an in-person Collaborative Decision Making Gathering. We want to connect with the wisdom in the field by bringing together people who are passionate about CDM. Our dream is to create a space where we can all come together to increase connection and coherence in our work. To showcase what each of us has learned so far, inspire each other, and create pathways for more shared learning in the future.
What motivates us
We believe that many global issues like poverty, violence, and war reflect a world-wide loss of collaboration skills. Our group feels called to inspire and support people in re-discovering how to care for each other. Our experience is that collaborating in ways that attend to everyone’s needs is what people naturally enjoy. We consistently see deep listening and integration leading to more meaningful interactions, innovative solutions, and supportive outcomes.
While many people hold an intention to make collaborative decisions, in practice they face many challenges and often resort to unsatisfying compromises, hierarchy, or avoidance. We sense that common collaboration struggles often emerge from lack of concrete guidance and skills. Existing frameworks, workshops, and practices are often complex and don’t have easy entry points. Going from theory to practice can be daunting and many people simply give up.
We want to meet people where they are and support them in transforming old patterns, even when they are not willing or able to invest a lot of time or energy in learning. We want to prototype and explore tools and practices that are simple, accessible, and flexible. We also want to discover pathways for bringing more embodiment and play into collaboration activities that are often seen as very serious and stressful.
Our sources of inspiration
Our work is grounded in principles of nonviolence and we use practices from diverse frameworks: from nonviolent communication to social presencing theatre (theory u). We are working on creating a full list of practices.