Dear Martin, Very good idea having open space to develop cooperation for free agents/self-employed! Maybe I will "steal" your idea and make one in copenhagen ;-) maybe we can share thougts and practicalities later on?
When it come to trust I think most people want to trust others, but are told not to. My experience is that trust will begin when I myself trust people. Maybe it is just a bad excuse for not coming - or for doing nothing to make their dream come true? If they really feel a need for development and cooperation they will come - and if they don't they are not "the right people" ;-) I am a free agent myself and I often do workshops for free agents. I tell them that there are plenty of ideas, many more ideas than we need - the difficult thing is not to get the idea, but to make it work (selling, creating a product, branding and so on) - and as they have probably already discovered their idea need some work to get into business, so it is not so easy to steal ;-) Otherwise they can tell about their idea and their needs in a less specific way risking that nobody get inspired enough to join them... Enjoy the day and good luck with developing your idea! Lise Lise Damkjær civilingeniør og FLOWvært T: 2949 9636 Learning4life udforsker flow i (arbejds-)livet, projekter og i virksomheden. www.learning4life.dk Blog: http://lisedamkjaer.blogspot.com -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] På vegne af Martin Mayer Sendt: 29. juli 2009 11:06 Til: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Emne: [OSLIST] Some Feedback please! 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 * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
