<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Martin,<div><br></div><div>Wonderful question and challenge.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd begin by suggesting that you're not using Open Space to just bring them together to talk, but to bring them together to create a community. One of aspects of that community will be mutual trust and mutual support.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps rather than trying to get them to trust and be completely open with each other right from the beginning, you can get them to come talk about their common challenges, share some of the solutions they've found, and generally talk about the challenges and efforts involved in starting an organization. If you can do that - help to create a <i>community - </i>then you can look at the next steps.</div><div><br></div><div>Next steps would be to organize further events in which they can talk about the specifics, after they've established trust.</div><div><br></div><div>Next steps might include "working groups" who carry some of the characteristics of mastermind groups.</div><div><br></div><div>Next steps might include finding ways for them to communicate and support each other when they are <i>not</i> face to face.</div><div><br></div><div>Building trust takes some time and effort. Start it with an Open Space.</div><div><br></div><div>You might even borrow from one of the Open Space derivatives, the BarCamp. Perhaps a split day, with presentations in the morning (BarCamp style) and Open Space in the afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.barcamp.org/">http://www.barcamp.org/</a></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck to you in this admirable effort.</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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