practising Holacracy

A couple of friends and I have begun to develop our own consulting business - practising holacray (see blog below - A new Way of working together) amongst ourselves in order to help each other to develop our own businesses and/or carry it into those we are employed in. Next week is a big one, when Sandra is going to introduce the system in her workplace. I keep trying to articulate why I find this so exciting. I think it is the very practical and down-to-earth orientation away from individuals and towards a different kind of fluid and human order, towards transparency and the development of something bigger than all of us combined (the organization, the business, the goal). Much of its philosophy is approaches aspects of  Andrew Cohen's teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment. In Holacracy, the focus isn't on directly developing consciousness itself, but on developing a system, an organization, that, hopefully, would be an expression of a higher consciousness. Meeting together to make this happen takes presence, discipline and a lot of renunciation of personal responses (there is no cross talk, joking etc) and the sense of satisfaction, clarity, dignity and purpose makes it actually addictive. So much energy is usually wasted in worrying about our, my place/ role/ contribution/ image. The practise of holacracy doesn't leave room for this except for in your own head and after a while it seems pointless to keep it even there. It is so much more satisfying to lean into what needs to happen, into developing towards our goal. We don't have pratical metrics to prove any of this yet ourselves, but hopefully it won't be long until we can report those too!