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Governance

The collective is organized into working groups that aim to achieve specific objectives validated by the group. Each working group is autonomous and regularly presents its progress and seeks validation from the collective according to a consent decision-making process. Certain decisions are made by consensus (inclusion of members, long-term financial issues, and ethical/fundamental issues).

Following the adoption of the charter, work was carried out to refine the governance and legal structure of the organization.

Our governance? Shared, obviously #

We have chosen shared governance as the organizational model for how the group operates. While some groups work with leaders (elected or not) and assemblies that deliberate and make decisions, shared governance is based on the principle that every member is sovereign, with power distributed equally among all.

Hagrou chose shared governance to ensure that power remains distributed equitably and that no individual or subgroup has more influence than another. This seems to us today to be the structure best suited to our values. This is closely linked to the concept of resilience, which is very important to us: unhealthy power dynamics are natural among humans, and we wanted to prevent them as much as possible. Since shared governance offers many tools that suit us, it was natural to move toward this mode of operation.

We use shared governance methodologies at several levels:

  • Decision-making (consent and consensus)
  • Meeting facilitation (election of facilitators and secretaries without candidates)
  • Task distribution (operating through working groups)
  • Transparency of everyone’s work (work channels open to everyone)
  • etc.

We are currently working on defining the legal structure. This page will be updated later.