Some Feedback please!

[Martin Mayer]

I want to thank all of you for your well considered thoughts and ideas. 
You gave me a lot of inspirations to think about in the ongoing process 
of developing my project.
Best wishes
Martin

Martin Mayer schrieb:
> 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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