Dear friends, Trust your year has started off well. For the past 6 months or so, we have been learning and practicing decision making by consent rather than consensus. In a nutshell, consensus requires everyone to agree, while consent means that a decision will be taken as long as no one in the decision-making group objects. So, in consent decision-making, a proposal is reworked until there are no objections. However, an objection is strictly defined as a concern that “the decision proposed is at odds with the purpose of the group and hinders its members from doing their job well.” Decision-making by consent is …