Member, Board of Directors

About OFI

Open Floor International is a global nonprofit organization that supports people who are committed to using embodied movement and dance to foster more authentic, emotionally intelligent, and resilient individuals and communities.

Our Vision

Resourced by their own embodiment practice, people create adaptive and regenerative relationships with themselves, each other, and the planet.

Our Mission

Open Floor International is a global nonprofit organization that supports people who are committed to using embodied movement and dance to foster more authentic, emotionally intelligent, and resilient individuals and communities. Open Floor International serves and connects Open Floor and other movement teachers and practitioners, professionals from a wide variety of fields, and community members, as well as our financial supporters and all those who contribute their time, expertise and other resources to achieve our vision.

Our Aims

• Grow and strengthen OFI as a regenerative, global nonprofit organization.
• Curate a structured yet flexible curriculum for Open Floor Movement Practice.
• Provide membership-based practical services and resources for Open Floor teachers, practitioners, and professionals in a variety of fields seeking to incorporate Open Floor Movement Practice in their work.

You can read more about us at https://openfloor.org/our-mission/

About the role

At Open Floor we foster a culture of inclusion, equality and radical responsibility. One of the major factors in successfully offering our education programs globally is how Open Floor International has chosen to operate as an organization. In a world where the bottom line is often the only concern, Open Floor has rejected traditional top down hierarchical business models in favor of Sociocracy, a non-authoritarian, collaborative model that reflects the same values of inclusion, equality, and radical responsibility we teach in our practice.

Our work is organized in Circles. While there are leaders, the power is in the group rather than any individual. This ensures that everybody has a sovereign voice in the management of the organization.

The Mission Circle is equivalent to the Board of Directors, taking care of long-term planning and ensuring that OFI is acting in accordance with public trust and the law.

We are reaching out to elect new members to the board for a term of 2 years. We are particularly looking for people with leadership experience in any of the following areas, especially if in the fields of embodiment, education and training, Sociocracy, and/or the arts:

• Nonprofit Leadership
• Fundraising & Grant Writing
• Marketing & Communications
• Community Building

We are keen to include people from different continents to ensure diverse perspectives are represented.

Responsibilities:

• Agrees to the Domain & Aims of this circle
• Helps set and oversee the execution of a strategic plan
• Works to ensure fiscal responsibility of OFI and engages in fundraising initiatives
• Works to maintain the long-term viability of the organization
• Generates new ideas and directions and occasionally participates in operational activities
• Willing to share the workload evenly among the members pre, during, post meetings
• Decides, with current members of the Board, the content and process of the Annual retreat
• Consents or objects to all Mission Circle proposals within the agreed upon timeframe if not present at the meeting
• Agrees to attend 7-10 board meetings per year

Essential Qualifications:

• Helps diversify the Mission Circle in terms of perspectives, geography, and skill set
• Willing to accommodate global meeting schedule of the Mission Circle
• Experience in organizational leadership
• Excellent communication skills, relational skills, emotional resilience
• Is trained in, or agrees to get training in, Sociocracy – e.g., takes a “Foundations of Sociocracy” course or equivalent
• Has, or commits to developing, a basic understanding of the Open Floor movement curriculum

Specific Skills areas (one or more):

• Experience in financial management/budgetary accountability
• Experience in marketing and communications strategy
• Experience in fundraising and/or grant writing
• Experience in community building