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How to achieve the purpose of your team (mainly for Internal Coordinators)

SOS: making it work for you Role-specific SOS guidance

Why the Internal Coordinator role matters Every role in a team plays a part in achieving the purpose of the team. The Internal Coordinator (IC) role is there to keep everyone collaborating effectively, and healthily, towards this goal. This page gives you some...

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roles
circles & sub-circles
alignment

How to work with other teams (mainly for External Coordinators)

SOS: making it work for you Role-specific SOS guidance

Why the External Coordinator role matters The External Coordinator (EC) is crucial for integrating the work of your team with the wider movement. By bridging your team and external circles, you ensure that your team aligns with broader strategic goals and shar...

external coordinator
circles & sub-circles
alignment

How to build transparency and mitigate power (mainly for Group Admins)

SOS: making it work for you Role-specific SOS guidance

Why the Group Admin role matters The Group Admin (GA) is vital to supporting the movement’s commitment to decentralisation, transparency, and equitable distribution of power. By documenting and maintaining up-to-date records of team roles, mandates, and member...

group admin
circles & sub-circles
transparency
record-keeping

Empowering the Movement

SOS: making it work for you

XRUK’s Self-Organising System (SOS) There’s a climate and ecological emergency. We can’t waste time. We need to organise in the most effective way to achieve our demands, to be the most successful we can be. So what works? XRUK has adopted the self-organising ...

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mandate
SOS
circles & sub-circles
group decisions
Integrative Decision Making
organising
Self-Organising System
autonomy & decentralisation
power
accountability & responsibility

Why SOS? An introductory Q&A

SOS: making it work for you General SOS guidance

Please click each question to see the answer. Why do we have a Self-Organising System? XR’s tenth Principle and Value is that we are based on autonomy and decentralisation. The self-organising system (SOS for short) is a set of practices that guarantees thi...

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decision making
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Self-Organising System
group decisions
power
roles
circles & sub-circles
autonomy & decentralisation

Key Terms in SOS

SOS: making it work for you General SOS guidance

The Self-Organising System (SOS) is the decision-making process adopted by Extinction Rebellion (XR). This guide walks you some key components of SOS that we adopt to further the principles and values of XR. Circle: A group or unit within the larger XR organis...

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mandate
roles
Self-Organising System
circles & sub-circles

What are project groups and when are they useful?

SOS: making it work for you General SOS guidance

Project Groups in the Self-Organising System (SOS) are temporary, goal-focused teams that bring together people from multiple circles to work on a specific initiative. Key Characteristics of a Project in SOS: Short-term focus: A project is usually created to...

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circles & sub-circles
project groups
accountability & responsibility
autonomy & decentralisation

The Whys and Wheres of SOS terms

XR UK Ways of Working and Constitution

Why does the Self-Organising System use special terms? Our Principle and Values inspire us to find new ways of organising that foreground transparency and accountability, mitigate power and are based on autonomy and decentralisation. Naturally we also want to ...

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SOS
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