Hi, Alex, This is the kind of initiative I see a good bit of interest in, I would mentally file it under "mentoring" though it is peer mentoring I suppose.
And this is just the kind of thing that we as Open Coworking could facilitate, as a pilot project say, with enough you know, either 1) time or 2) money. As you note, someone has to identify the candidates, and somebody has to qualify them, get them together, lead the group itself, and report back on how it went so other peopl can learn from it. I can certainly see its potential. The thing is, with the current projects we are about at the limit of our you know, 1) time and 2) money. We can put it on the blog if you want to write an article; you can develop your ideas on the Wiki also. And of course this group seems to me a good place to explore finding thiose other folks. I thank you for your time and thoughts, and hope to hear from you some more! (fixed that typo finally lol) Cheers, Jeannine On Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 7:38:07 PM UTC+2, Alex Linsker wrote: > > Thanks for this exploration. As part of Open Coworking, I would value > regular check-ins and phone and in-person talk time on specific topics with > people who own and manage coworking businesses with similarities to mine. > I've been part of small groups (up to 14 people) that meet each week at the > same time, with similarities between our businesses and shared interest in > actionable learning. I'd like to be in a group with other coworking > owner-managers where: > - the business is talked about transparently in a safe space > - the business pays at least a living wage to at least one person full-time > - the values defined previously by Steve King and others on this group for > what is coworking are honored > - the coworking places in the group have existed at least 1 year and the > people in the group are passionate about learning and building vision > somehow for their place and community. > - we meet for at least 10 weeks, an hour each week, and participants are > on the calls at least 7 out of the 10 calls. > - there could be a text to read or topics to discuss for each call, where > we share what we're working on and get support for, and relate with, our > goals. > > I would be open to facilitating that group and open to others facilitating > instead. It would need at least 6 people. > > Alex Linsker, Collective Agency business owner > (503) 517-6900 office | (503) 369-9174 mobile > 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200 | Portland, Oregon 97209 > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
