About Us

We inspire and support collaborative decisions

We help people and groups make decisions that care for everyone’s needs. We love creating and sharing simple practices for group decisions, self-organizing, and collaborative leadership. We work with you to build habits and systems for efficient and caring collaboration. 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

Whatever we do, we center the needs and experience of the people we support. 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 collaboration practices, and you choose if and how to use them in your daily life.

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 more collaborative decisions.  

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 meet people where they are

We focus on making collaborative decisions as accessible as possible. We use whatever words, practices, or tools work for different people and still keep the essence of our vision. We bring together many methods and build bridges between them. We invite people to learn more if they are curious, and accept whatever level of engagement they choose. We welcome frustration, disagreement, and skepticism as opportunities to learn and connect. 

We also support people who share our passion for nonviolence, inner transformation, and social change. We are happy to dive deep into the roots of our methods, explorations of new possibilities, and feedback from diverse experiences. 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. 

We build bridges and open doors

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’re just getting started! Connect with us to see what else is possible. We love getting to know people!

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 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 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 sources of inspiration

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