About Us

We inspire and support collaborative decisions

We facilitate and support community learning and action with a focus on collaborative leadership, integrative decisions, systemic change, inner transformation, and nonviolent conflict resolution. With each interaction that truly cares for everyone, no matter how small, we help build a more connected, peaceful, and sustainable future for all life.

We help people and groups take action that cares for everyone’s needs. We love creating and sharing simple practices for group decisions, self-organizing, and collaborative leadership. We draw from diverse frameworks rooted in nonviolence to create supportive spaces for transformation:

  • where everyone is fully engaged and shares what is true for them
  • where agreements and structures support people in navigating complexity and finding common ground
  • where growing trust means people are willing to commit to decisions made by others, even when they are not involved or have a different preference

We see ourselves as guides and companions in each person’s journey to discover what works for them and others. We create opportunities to experience effective and nourishing collaboration, and offer support for integrating practices into your life, organization, and communities. We welcome alternative views as we continue to evolve our own understanding of nonviolence and what supports systemic change.

We offer coaching and facilitation

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 that 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 guide 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? 

Connect with us to discover new possibilities.  

We believe in a collaborative future

Our vision for the future: Living in a collaborative culture

People around the world live in sustainable local communities rooted in collaboration, self-responsibility, and trust. Decisions are made as locally as possible, led by whoever is willing and able, and integrate the perspectives of all stakeholders. All of us participate in regional and global governance networks where we learn from each other, coordinate large-scale activities, and steward collective resources. 

From everyday interactions to large organizations, we are all making decisions that care for as many needs as possible. Our children learn collaboration practices from their very first experiences of how humans live together within the web of all life. We lean on support systems and facilitators to help us navigate more complex situations in sustainable ways. We each simply do our part to participate and respond to whatever happens with love, presence, and responsibility.  

We hold a deep faith that living in a collaborative culture is entirely possible. We have seen and experienced it on a smaller scale many, many times. We also recognize the immense journey it takes to transform our existing habits of competition and separation. We see group decisions as pivotal opportunities for learning new ways to care for each other.

We feel called to support people and organizations in taking both small and large steps toward collaborative leadership and nonviolent systemic change. We use our own self-organizing collective as a space to develop new practices, integrate learnings, accompany each other, and move closer to already living within our visionary collaborative culture.  

From small steps to global changes

If you are just curious or getting started, we offer introductory workshops where you can take small steps. We focus on making collaborative decisions as accessible as possible. We support you with finding words, practices, and tools that would work for your context and still keep the essence of nonviolence. We welcome frustration, disagreement, and skepticism as opportunities to learn and connect. 

If you share our passion for nonviolence, inner transformation, and social change, we offer longer trainings, ongoing practice spaces, and partnership in transformation work. We can support you with your own journey and with systemic change projects, especially action related to participatory government, building interdependent communities, and moving toward post-capitalist economies with needs-based distribution of resources.

We host community learning spaces

We co-create events to develop and spread collaborative practices

We host community spaces where people share their knowledge and integrate diverse perspectives

We initiate projects like designing collaborative games and materials

We offer whatever you need to support your organization or community.

Connect with us to organize an offering or event for your specific needs.

We offer all of our work using gift economy principles.

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We are also collecting accessible practices for making collaborative decisions. Tell us about your favorite methods and who might benefit from them! We create, gather, share, and lead diverse ways of making decisions. We plan to place them in a creative commons and build a catalog so they are easy to find.

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 history

In 2023, Roni started holding conversations exploring a longing for more collaboration between teachers and facilitators of nonviolent social change. They noticed that while they often talked about the importance of community, Roni mostly did their work on their own. They dreamed of connecting different people, groups, and methods with a shared vision into a community of mutual support, where no one works alone, learnings are shared, and the whole ecosystem evolves together.

Several people expressed excitement about the idea, but were not aware of any existing group that would want to move it forward. Unwilling to give up on their dream, Roni decided to initiate something new. A place with a deep commitment to the integration of diverse perspectives. A collective, broadcasting inspiring and practical pathways toward more collaborative futures. An Integration Station.

Roni shared their vision and invitation, and felt delighted and grateful when 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 to work on our first projects. 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 perspectives in support of systemic change.

We spent our first year as a collective developing our internal collaboration structures and experimenting with different governance and organizational design approaches. After connecting with our vision and learnings, we found a lot of energy for organizing an in-person Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) Gathering. We then hosted our first Decide Together event in the Netherlands, where we brought together people passionate about CDM to share, experience, and learn different practices. New people joined us, and we started working on new projects including more trainings, online practice spaces, and collaborative games.

We continue to look for more members to increase the diversity of perspectives within our collective. Our dream is to create a resilient network of people in different places on the journey of inner transformation, where we all support each other and learn from each other.

What motivates us

We believe that global issues like poverty, violence, and war emerge from cultural habits that are created in daily interactions. 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.

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 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.

Gratitude for our sources of wisdom and inspiration

Our work is grounded in principles of nonviolence and we use practices from diverse frameworks. We listed a few below, and we are working on creating a full list of methods and practices.