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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