From the workshop
Texts
Working papers, essays and concept papers from the konsent.one workshop — published with DOI and directly citable. Full-text language is marked for each entry.
12 July 2026
Kiezmachen — relationships, not addresses
Recovery-oriented neighbourhood facilitation for the inclusion of people with mental illness: Who expects a person? Who stays approachable?
Builds on the working paper "Relationships, not addresses" (2024).
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969420
23 June 2026
Methodological foundations of the Compass for Personal Recovery
Origins and scientific grounding of the three pillars crisis, resilience and recovery — the reference base for further development.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969498
21 June 2026
Dialogical decision-making as a stance
dEf not as a formal procedure but as an everyday stance: phrase everything as a proposal, listen for tensions, actively invite objections.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969567
12 June 2026
Sociocracy, consent and dialogical decision-making
Historical and conceptual positioning: from the Boekes via Endenburg to Sociocracy 3.0 — and why this leads to the working term dEf for social work.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969576
12 June 2026
Dialogical decision-making — a personal introduction
Three decades of experience in non-hierarchical groups, combined with a professional framing of dEf as method and stance.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969573
12 June 2026
"Isn’t this all far too complicated?"
Why dialogical decision-making is not a methods problem but a culture change: from duel to dialogue, from person to issue.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969579
June 2026
The dEf process for workable agreements in social work: proposal, objections, agreement — not "Is everyone in favour?" but "Does anyone have a paramount objection?".
The foundational paper on dialogical decision-making — connected to the dEf foundation course and participation-oriented facilitation.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969561
June 2026
Acting consistently without punishing
The dialogical sequence of consequences: a jointly pre-agreed, five-step series of clarification steps — explicitly not a ladder of punishment.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969582
June 2026
Leading with dialogical decision-making: strong leadership that fully submits to jointly agreed rules.
Also published as an essay on konsent.berlin; course in preparation on konsent.training.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969585
June 2026
The Compass for Personal Recovery — a method outline
Toolbox and crisis recovery coaching along everyday life, tension and crisis — following the principle "everyday life first".
Connected to the Compass for Personal Recovery foundation course and recovery-kompass.de.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969489
2026
A curriculum of blank pages — a course concept built around the "Next Level Gardener" approach, a gardening metaphor for personal development.
Bookable as a foundation course on konsent.training.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969543
16 July 2025
Conceptual considerations on recovery in disability support; a central reference text for the Compass for Personal Recovery and work with crisis, everyday life and future.
German full textdoi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20424202
14 July 2024
Facilitation of community in neighbourhood contexts: social space understood not as a list of services, but as a network of viable relationships.
German full textdoi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20390741
2024
Zukunftsladen — "I plan my participation myself"
Concept for a place where people plan their own participation — with recovery at the centre, around a round table.
Connected to the project vision zukunftsladen.org.
German full textdoi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32969414
22 July 2022
Consent-based decision-making in social work
English-language version of the early working paper on consent-based decision-making in person-centred, non-directive social work.
English full textdoi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20417970
22 July 2022
Konsent-Entscheidungsfindung in der Sozialen Arbeit
Early German-language working paper on the use of consent-based decision-making in person-centred, non-directive social work.
German full textdoi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20405958