Summary of the last three co-creation meetings.

Summary of the last three meetings

This is to give you an update on the things which have grown in the Hub recently thanks to your contribution during the co-creation meetings. During the 2^nd co-creation meeting we designed a process through which we intended to gain input from you regarding key elements of an operative Hub. We put posters all over the place on which you could leave comments and proposals on the following subjects: beliefs, values, vision, space, finances, membership offerings, marketing and customer attraction of the HubYour constructive ideas have been of great value in further developing our official business plan. During the co-creation meeting on the Hub space you have put in a lot of great ideas on how we can transform the office into our hub. We have transcribed all your design proposals onto the HubWiki pages. See http://thehubbrussels.pbwiki.com/space-design

We have also teamed up with “The Inner circle”(www.theinnercircle.be), an advisory bureau for well-being at work. They give advice on how to make right use of colours,sounds,tactile sensations,smells in designing a work environment.Their approach is thus to involve and stimulate all the five senses of the people at work.

Johan,Simone, Ria,Tom,Eric,Levent,Rik and Dieter gathered on November 29^th for a core-group meeting.With regard to the work areas defined in the roadmap, the core-members decided to meet certain milestones and middle-term-goals by April 2008. We want to have 30 social entrepreneurs working in the Hub by then.

On December 6th we also held an Action learning event in the Hub on the question

“What is our passion and how can it nurture The Hub`s magic? ” The process was guided by Dr. Robert Kramer and two other certified action learning coaches. After an unusual presentation round (participants were asked to pair up and to ask their partner about a burning question which matters to him and whose answer would cause a radical change in this person`s life. They then presented the person to the group by sharing this person`s question), and an interesting video teaching about selective perception, the group split into two groups to start the actual “action learning”.

 

During an Action Learning (AL) session a team comes together with the intent to learn how to be more effective as a team player and as a leader and to better understand the environment and to discover ways to influence this environment in a positive way. The starting point of the process is the question of the “problem holder” who has an immediate interest in finding a solution for his problem. The team now approaches this problem through a series of questions (the only rule in ALis to only give answers as response to a question). We had two groups and Simone and Rik were the problem owners. Simone’s question was: How can I support a self organising environement in The Hub?

It was definitely unusual for the mind to stay within the protocol of only contributing through questions but my impression was that it focused the group to steadily drill to the core of the problem holder’s question.