Some Feedback please!

[Peggy Holman]

Martin,

To what others have said, I'd just add if the question for the  
convening is attractive, people will come because they care.  Trust  
will work itself out within the gathering.

Have fun with your gathering,
Peggy


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On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Martin Mayer wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I want to use Open Space to help people creating new organisations.  
> I have met a lot of people who want to become self employed or to  
> create their own organisations. But many of them struggle. They have  
> a specific expertise and want to set up a business with it. But  
> running a business requires a broader range of knowledge than they  
> have, e.g. bookkeeping, sales, creating a product etc.. Many are  
> specialists in one area. I realised that often their skills  
> complement each other. They could be more successful if they  
> cooperated.
>
> My plan is to bring them together in an Open Space to discuss their  
> ideas and to find out, how they could cooperate. But it turns out  
> that many hesitate to follow the invitation to Open Space because  
> they fear that their business idea could be "stolen" there. Or in  
> other words, they have low trust into the other participants.
>
> I wonder if it is possible to help develop more trust in an self  
> organising way. Which means to create circumstances which make trust  
> possible, just as Open Space creates circumstances which make self  
> organised conversations possible.
>
> Harrison writes in Wave Rider that a nexus of caring corresponds to  
> the strange attractor in chaos theory. It helps to let Open Space  
> events happen or correspondingly to let order appear from chaos. He  
> also says: "The jump from the very limited situation of an Open  
> Space event into the infinitely larger realm of human systems of all  
> sizes is considerable, to say the least."
>
> This arises some questions for me. Do we need other or additional  
> strange attractors to help self organised organisations to emerge?  
> Is it possible that trust is this strange attractor? And can we help  
> it to develop? If so, how?
>
> I appreciate your comments, ideas or suggestions.
>
> From sunny Munich
> Martin
>
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