Some Feedback please!

[Martin Mayer]

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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