Some Feedback please!

Martin Mayer info at systemisches-denken.de
Sun Aug 2 10:05:05 PDT 2009


Harrison,

thank you for your answer. I love your clarity and the way you really 
hit the nail on the head with simple words.

Martin

> Martin -- Interesting project, but I have never found any need for trust
> building exercises or anything of the sort. Even in situations of positive
> non-trust, call it enmity and anger. For example in all the years that I
> worked with my friends in Israel and Palestine -- where a whole mess of
> people were pretty sure that they were going to get shot by somebody all we
> ever did was sit in a circle, create a bulleting board, open a market place,
> and get out of the way. All the rest was "standard Open Space." Of course it
> could get a little tense at times, but that turned out to be the heat of
> passion constrained and denied. But when given the space, good things
> happened. You may recall the OS in Rome with the 50 Palestinians and
> Israelis. http://openspaceworld.com/opening_space_for_peace.htm 
>
> We never went for the easy/safe issues. Not too much passion there! Go for
> the hard ones and for sure the people who come will be the people who care,
> and it is from their caring that new, useful organizations and opportunity
> will emerge (Nexus of Caring). All the rest really don't care that much
> which is a good reason for them not to come.
>
> And so for your people who might be turned off and not come because they are
> afraid somebody might steal their business. I wouldn't worry about them. You
> really don't want them anyhow. Besides if their business is so good that
> they can afford to hide it they will have little use for the whole gathering
> and will provide limited benefit to the group. 
>
> Harrison
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> 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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