Spokes Council Structure for the Sonoma County Climate Activist Network
All climate activist groups in Sonoma County are requested to send a minimum of one person to represent their group at each SoCoCAN! meeting.
Each climate activist group gives a brief report on what they have been working on and makes requests of the network for support needed to ensure the success of their campaigns. Campaign proposals can also be submitted as a separate agenda item.
Everyone who attends each meeting (all individuals) are encouraged to speak and participate.
At the discretion of the facilitator and the meeting participants, participation in some discussions can be limited to one person per group. This format is suggested to be used as needed to streamline our decision-making process, to limit participation at the meeting, and to avoid any group with a larger number of participants to dominate the meeting or the discussion.
When participation is limited to one person per group, unaffiliated individuals who are not in a group form a kind of affinity group at the meeting so that they can choose one person to represent them. This includes "organizations" that are comprised of one or two members.
The purpose of this structure includes but is not limited to:
• Requesting that each group in the network send a representative to each meeting (either the same person or rotating).
• Streamline discussion when important decisions need to be made. It may be easier and faster to make decisions with fewer individuals participating in some discussions.
• Avoid domination by any larger groups with more attendees at a meeting.
• Also avoid domination by any single-member "organizations".
• To create a central hub where spokes join together for cooperation, balance, and effectively moving forward, like a wheel, towards our mutual success at achieving our goals.
• Together our climate network shares information, coordinates our efforts, gains support from each other, and creates a unified body that can accomplish much more together.
Approved by unanimous consensus on October 29, 2018
All climate activist groups in Sonoma County are requested to send a minimum of one person to represent their group at each SoCoCAN! meeting.
Each climate activist group gives a brief report on what they have been working on and makes requests of the network for support needed to ensure the success of their campaigns. Campaign proposals can also be submitted as a separate agenda item.
Everyone who attends each meeting (all individuals) are encouraged to speak and participate.
At the discretion of the facilitator and the meeting participants, participation in some discussions can be limited to one person per group. This format is suggested to be used as needed to streamline our decision-making process, to limit participation at the meeting, and to avoid any group with a larger number of participants to dominate the meeting or the discussion.
When participation is limited to one person per group, unaffiliated individuals who are not in a group form a kind of affinity group at the meeting so that they can choose one person to represent them. This includes "organizations" that are comprised of one or two members.
The purpose of this structure includes but is not limited to:
• Requesting that each group in the network send a representative to each meeting (either the same person or rotating).
• Streamline discussion when important decisions need to be made. It may be easier and faster to make decisions with fewer individuals participating in some discussions.
• Avoid domination by any larger groups with more attendees at a meeting.
• Also avoid domination by any single-member "organizations".
• To create a central hub where spokes join together for cooperation, balance, and effectively moving forward, like a wheel, towards our mutual success at achieving our goals.
• Together our climate network shares information, coordinates our efforts, gains support from each other, and creates a unified body that can accomplish much more together.
Approved by unanimous consensus on October 29, 2018