Some Feedback please!

[douglas germann]

Martin--

Maybe best to start with a smaller living question that does not require
such a high level of trust?

For instance, instead of "Issues and Opportunities for Running our New
Businesses Together" make it "Issues and Opportunities for gaining trust
with a new business in this environment."

What is or are the topics you have tried with people?

			:- Doug.



On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 11:05 +0200, 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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