Vision

You can feel energy between people. You get energy when you enjoy something, when something succeeds, when you feel recognition, when you have hope. And especially when you feel connection with others, with whom you feel safe and meaningful.

You can also lose energy: when something takes effort, when things don't work out, or when you feel unsafe between others. This does not mean it is bad or wrong: it is a signal that there is work to be done and something to learn.

What is that energy? Read more: 'Seven organising principles'

Warm organising refers to managing relationships. You pay attention to the energy between people, and you do what is necessary in the moment to get people to develop something together.  

This is opposed to cold organising: steering by structure. This is also necessary: structure provides security and grip, and regulates mutual traffic.  

But without the energy from warm organising, little comes of creating together. 

Read more: Warm and Cold

Vital space is a situation where you feel safe and meaningful working with others. It gives you energy.  

Your investment of time, effort and risk is worthwhile, you feel challenged, you know you will make progress together. Failures make sense because they can be learned from, and if things go differently than expected, you trust that together you will find a solution to keep going. 

Vital space is more than trust: too much trust can be unhealthy. 

What can you do to enlarge the vital space?

Read more: the Circle of Coherence 

Free actors are connectors. They do what is needed, even if in doing so they sometimes colour outside the lines, but in a way that is appreciated by others.  

An innovative network cannot exist without at least one free actor. The position of free actor is a personal choice, and at the same time it must be granted to you.  

Are you a free actor?
And what other positions can be distinguished in a process of co-creation?

To the Co-creation triangle. 

Responsive capacity is the capacity of a network to find effective responses under changing circumstances.  

This is the ultimate legitimisation for interventions in networks, and answer to the question of what we interfere with in the position of free actor. This answer fits into the worldview of society as a living organism.  

The way people see their world guides their beliefs about what knowledge is and who has a say about what. Society as an ecosystem is one of the seven worldviews we distinguish. 

Read more: seven worldviews.