School Circles

School Circles is an independent documentary that explores the practice of democratic schools in the Netherlands. The film shows students, teachers and staff members coming together to dialogue, discuss proposals, mediate conflicts and make decisions about their school life. However these schools not only challenge the mainstream education, but also democracy as we know it. They put into practice Sociocracy, a method for collective organization based on self-regulating systems, in which the decisions are made through consent. School Circles connects the theory of sociocracy to its practice within schools, taking us to new possibilities of organizing ourselves and our communities.