Martin,
To what others have said, I'd just add if the question for the
convening is attractive, people will come because they care. Trust
will work itself out within the gathering.
Have fun with your gathering,
Peggy
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On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:05 AM, 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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