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Taking youth participation & active citizenship to a new level
Sociocratic Neighborhood Parliaments
Shaping our neighborhood and a new kind of politics together! for children, adolescents and adults
The education system is at its limit. Multiple, complex challenges have long been on our doorsteps. Our demographics will change dramatically in the next 20 years. Democracies are at risk. Wars, climate crisis, crisis of meaning. Politics alone cannot solve this.
A good, profound, scalable solution is needed!
In India, young people and adults have realised that they can improve their lives by organising themselves in new ways and working together to find solutions.They want to effectively advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), human rights and children’s rights.
They set up neighborhood parliaments together. They elect their own ministers, work with local politicians and make decisions using sociocracy. In this way, they create a new kind of politics. In doing so, they not only change their own lives, but also those of their neighborhood, village and city community.
Challenges
There is a lack of institutionalized community and neighborhood-oriented structures in which we learn to form a meaningful community and to best develop our ability to act and our democratic competence.
Lack of political education
Majority voting is the dominant form of decision-making, producing winners and losers. This offers little hope for effectively managing complex crises.
The Model - an Overview
Neighborhood focus: The parliaments are not randomly elected or supra-regional, but are voluntary. Children, young people and adults come together regularly in their neighborhood clusters. This makes it easier to reach and involve people who would otherwise be ignored or have no access to participation on their own.
Subsidiary principle: Everyone holds a ministerial office, based on the SGDs. They discuss the problems and objectives in their immediate environment. The neighborhood circles solve problems themselves before interacting with local organizations and politicians.
Sociocratic inspiration: Children, young people and adults learn and use elements from sociocracy, a governance method that enables deeper inclusion, equality and creativity.
Sociocratic inspiration: Children, young people and adults learn and use elements from sociocracy, a governance method that enables deeper inclusion, equality and creativity.
The movement originated in India 20 years ago and is now spreading to different parts of the world, empowering young people to make politics together and is recognized by the United Nations as the world’s best child-led organization promoting children’s rights.
Get involved: We spread visions!
Visions and developments need initial sparks and impulses. An invitation to young people and to all those who are active in the fields of education, politics, children’s rights, climate protection, social innovation, youth or as parents.
I offer:
Film screening “Power to the Children” followed by a dialogue
Introduction to sociocracy and how it can be practiced with young people
Strategy Workshop on Regional Development with Neighborhood Parliaments
training of neighborhood facilitators
Let’s dream, think and develop ideas together about how this movement could improve the lives of young people in your region!
Dates 2024
Here you can see where we are located and where we offer public film screenings and impulse workshops. Enquiries outside of these dates are of course also possible.
You want to invite us? Get in touch!
You want to support our project? Of course!
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2024
November - live with Gnanasekar Dhanapal from India
- Nov 22 from 16:00 - Dornbirn: BG Dornbirn, film screening and impulse workshop
- Nov 25 17:30 - Dornbirn: BG Dornbirn, film screening and impulse workshop
- Nov 26 - Maybe we will be in Innsbruck
- Nov 27 - Vienna: we are guests at the Vienna Education Festival
- Nov 28 - During the day, Vienna: book us!
- Nov 28 - Evening, Vienna: film screening and impulse workshop
- Registration follows
- Nov 29 - During the day, Vienna: book us!
December - live with Gnanasekar Dhanapal from India
- Dec 1-4 - Berlin: book us!
- Dec 6th - Augsburg
- Dec 7th - We will probably be in Stuttgart
- Dec 9-13 - We are probably in Switzerland
