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Coming back to the Hub, I went straight into a Hub Lunch with Abigail Tripp on “Marketing and Communication for Social Enterprise”. For one hour, we work on a case study from one of the Hub members. Elemental will launch their product – wecoach - in June: how can it be a launch with an impact?
In the afternoon, I learn about some member attraction strategies of the Hub. Again, I find some food for thought in the Hub toilets ;-)
From the 24th to the 27th of January we celebrated our opening with a big party, 31 workshops, seminars and spaces that were self-organized by the growing self network and some time to test the selfHUB working conditions.
During the selfSpeeddating 30 social pioneers got the chance to exchange ideas and get to know each other in a few minutes. They had time to deepen their conversations while having a drink at the party and listening to some Jazz music of the band “Local Time”, or the lyrics of “Sternabwärts".
Additionally to the deep Open Space process and outputs other events, discussion groups and workshops completed the picture. To name just a few - we learned how to earn our own money, got to know 11 organisations in 20x20 seconds each during the PechaKucha, discussed about “Who we really are” as well as “How we can facilitate our future” and learned about different projects and organizations like the “Museum des Glücks” (museum of happiness) or the “Provinz international”.
09:30 Maria, Holly, and me sit down to have a quick chat about hosting tasks this week. Holly has just been a host for about a month now and she is naturally living the principles of hosting. Afterwards, Maria and me design my learning process for the rest of the week: we organize my questions, arrange meetings with the rest of the Hub team, and I get assigned to a little Hub project for this week.
13:00 It’s pizza Tuesday today. The Hub has arranged a special deal with a pizza place and members can order pizza together every Tuesday. I have a chat with Keith over lunch about the
15:00 I meet again with Maria to discuss roles, responsibilities, competencies, and selection of Hub hosts.
16:00 We go straight into the next meeting: the weekly Hub Team meeting. 9 people attend and the main topics are updates from the Hub in
17:45 Within seconds the meeting room is converted into a larger space for 30-40 people who arrive for the Hub Evening and Pioneers of Change gathering “Disruptive Social Innovators”. We explore these questions together:
And we meet Cath with her little shop Unpackaged. Her project was born in the Hub (her shop is now just around the corner from the Hub) and it is very inspiring to listen to her story that is only at the beginning.
21:00 The last meeting of the day is with Lesley and Alex from the London Pioneers of Change hosting team. They share their experiences of the recent “Art of Hosting Pioneers of Change” workshop with me.
Despite the early hour, though, I managed to get some reading done on the plane: I discovered the variety of great initiatives started in the OpenSpace at the selfHUB Kick-off 10 days ago while reading the OpenSpace documentation.
Furthermore, I gained some ideas on strategic learning by reading “Path to Empowerment” (and an essay by Ian Cunningham on Self-Managed Learning.
Otherwise, my computer accepted the IT-infrastructure at the Hub right from the start and I was able to work just like every other Hub member today (around me are roughly 20-30 people working): getting used to the space and the people around me.
In the afternoon, a familiar face arrived: Lesley from
And guess what, where do you find the most relevant information in the Hub in 
And don’t forget, it’s Pancake (Tues)Day tomorrow! And I will probably dive deep into hosting issues with Maria.
As usual, when I am going to chaordic places, I have packed some questions to meet Maria and the Please come back on Tuesday to read about my first day at the Hub in
AIESEC is the world’s largest student organization that develops change agents for a positive impact on society. self connects a new way of entrepreneurship: social pioneers. We started our conversations with the question: “What question is moving you at the moment as a change agent/social pioneer?”
Social pioneers from the self network hosted the 3 islands. Thank you to the following pioneers for sharing their insights on that evening. We generated some interesting thoughts also around the second question “How is your question reflected in your current work/project?”:
Conrad and Andrea from Land des Gelingens
Gertrud a systemic coach and pioneering teacher in Wedding and Anna Lena & Bieke from the Kaospilots
Sebastian from ecochoice and Basti, also an AIESEC alumni, from Helpedia
We continued our conversation (e.g. pro and conse of the basic income model) in a next-door Café.
