Thoughts on Consensus Process?

Question/Discussion

Have you ever been involved in a Consensus Process? Have you ever facilitated one? How did it go? What do you think about Consensus Process? Do you have favorite styles, sources, or influences? How do you keep a Consensus process from being derailed by bad faith actors while still making space for dissent and unpopular ideas or uncomfortable questions? Do you think this tool would work on a larger scale? Why or why not?

(I complained about the content here, and was told I should make posts about discussions I'd like to see instead of complaining.)

in Anarchy4Everyoneby legendary_mushroom

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I worked at a non profit that used this. Loved it. Had a tonne of flaws but beat system I've used. Requires active participation tho. As the org grew, we tried out a spokes model since we were at 50+ staff - it's for sure needed w larger #s.

InternalEarly5885

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I think that if you cannot get to consent then you should split up. This makes it harder to derail the conversation by bad actors, you will see that some people often are troublemakers and so you can just split up from them because of the freedom of association.

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I think consensus is great. It can be slow but as long as everyone has a baseline respect for each other it can be a really good way for groups to make decisions. However, according to some people here(the mods posting all the "don't vote" stuff) it makes you a liberal fake anarchist