El pasado 27 y 28 de octubre, tuvo lugar en Vitoria-Gasteiz el Congreso de la Asociación de Derecho Colaborativo de Euskadi , desde aquí mis agradecimientos a @JKimwright, @Maria José Anitua, @Carmen Aja y a la Junta de la Asociación. Yo estuve en la jornada del viernes y el ambiente fue muy agradable y el poder compartir con el resto de Asociados/as sobre temas colaborativos y obtener diferentes puntos de vista, enriquece personal y profesionalmente.
Las jornadas estaban temáticamente basadas en los CONSCIOUS CONTRACTS y dar a conocer los mismos y su amplias posibilidades para empresas, particulares, grupos, equipos, y otras situaciones donde se quiera trabajar con amplias miras hacia la relación de las partes, resolución distinta de los conflictos y aportar creatividad, innovación y emoción a los contratos, pudiendo llevar el documento más allá del papel y dar un rol más significativo a las partes y estableciendo dentro del contrato un sistema de resolución del conflicto cuando este surja.
El conscious contract, parte de la base inicial de ser un documento legal y que se inspira en principios legales, si bien a través de los pasos en su construcción son las partes las que lo van construyendo, dejando de ser un corta y pega que a veces descargamos de Internet y ser un documento único para las partes y para el objeto del contrato.
Entre algunos de sus elementos están los siguientes:
- Se escriben en lenguaje relacional. Usamos lenguaje que entienden las partes.
- El contenido es escrito pero puede también contener imágenes u otros aspectos que las partes acuerden.
- Tiene un apartado llamado Touchstone, donde las partes aportan cada una su Misión, Visión, Principios y valores. Se fija mis valores y la otra parte fija los suyos y vemos si es viable una relación en base a este tipo de contratos
- No todo puede formar parte de estos contratos. Las partes deben analizar si están dispuestas, formadas y cuenta con apoyo de personal formado en esta materia para llevar a cabo estos contratos. Es importante analizar la situación antes de comenzar.
- Abordan una cláusula donde se hace referencia al cambio y como enfrentarse al Desacuerdo cuando surja.
- Es un documento vivo y no estático. Una vez firmado no se guarda en el cajón, las relaciones puede cambiar y ello también se puede reflejar en el contrato.
Traslado un apartado de @Jkimwright en un texto suyo
Conscious Contracts: Bringing Purpose and Values into Legal Documents
“his model of contract drafting ties in well with the Conscious Business movement and challenges a company’s integrity since this model requires that companies actually live by their declared purpose, mission, and values.
I am just one of the practitioners and trainers in this developing movement. There is no one right way to write Conscious Contracts, but I have my own favorite elements:
- Conscious Contracts are written in plain language. They’re meant for ease of use by the parties and stakeholders, not for judges or lawyers to interpret.
- The tone and content are relational. The goal of a conscious contract is to create a sustainable relationship to get some work done together. The goal isn’t to exploit the other, but to memorialize a trusted relationship. It isn’t a competition, but an alliance meant to benefit all the parties. The content and tone should reflect that.
- The parties start the process with a conversation about their purposes, values, principles, plus their hopes and dreams for the relationship. The values conversations are memorialized in the contract because they are important to the creation of the relationship. They don’t just cover Who, What, How, and When, but also Why?
- These contracts are not intended to be thrown in a drawer and pulled out when someone is angry. They’re working documents, more like constitutions that get amended when circumstances change.
- The parties then actually conduct their relationship in alignment with their stated purposes, values, and principles. Their goals are transparent. It is clear what each will get out of the relationship and what they’re willing to give. One lawyer pointed out that conscious contracts were tools for evolution.
- In many conventional contracts, conflict resolution is assumed to be a trial in front of a judge. Conscious Contracts contain a conflict engagement provision that ties back to the purposes, values, and principles. When change occurs or a conflict arises, it provides a structure for engaging in problem-solving, not arming for war. The focus is on preventing conflict and resolving those conflicts which arise as quickly as possible. After all, it is in the best interests of the parties and the contract if resources are focused on business, not conflict.
- Visuals and multisensory additions are welcome in the contract, especially if they help to clarify and generate understanding. (There is a whole movement building on the ideas of adding multi-sensory elements to contracts. Imagine a contract that is illustrated!)
- Conscious Contracts often take more time to negotiate, but they create more sustainable relationships with structures so everyone knows what to do when a dispute arises or something unexpected happens. That ultimately saves time and resources.
- Conscious Contracts are also unique to each transaction. They are for matters that are too important to trust to a form downloaded from the internet.
- Conscious Contracts are still based on solid legal principles. Each clause is carefully considered as to its necessity and relevance. While their intent is to avoid court, they’re still enforceable if the relationship totally breaks down and resolution is not possible. They include the elements that are required for this transaction without the pages of irrelevant paragraphs so often in the contract forms.
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