Watercolor of an Ozark meadow at sunrise with a large golden circle of people joined by paths to six smaller circles

Connected Circles: How the Animal Earth Alliance Can Share Power and Build Bridges

Watercolor of an Ozark meadow at sunrise with a large golden circle of people joined by paths to six smaller circles
One big circle joined by paths to many small ones. Every circle makes its own choices, and they all stay connected. That’s how I picture the Alliance sharing power.

How we make decisions matters as much as what we decide. I have watched good groups fall apart, not because people stopped caring, but because a few voices made all the choices and everyone else quietly drifted away. I have also watched groups get stuck for months because one person could block everything.

In this article I share how the Alliance can use connected circles and Sociocracy 3.0, so everyone has a voice and decisions still get made.

Read the full article on the Animal Earth Alliance blog

I wrote this together with Claude, an AI from Anthropic. I brought my ideas and experiences, and Claude helped write it and expand the research.

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