Greetings from the selfHUB

The selfHUB is a room for people with ideas for social innovation. After we have moved in, we are now inviting our friends to join us working from the selfHUB.

We have made post cards to invite 5 of our friends personally.

Those friends have then the possibility to invite another 5 of their friends.

We Are What We Do has already moved into the selfHUB and ecochoice and Standardfinanz will follow December 01.

Our Social Pioneers: Gabriela Ender

Gertrud Graf, a teacher from the self network, has interviewed Social Pioneer Gabriela Ender about her social technology OpenSpace-Online for the German magazine "ab 40":

"Each day, millions of people travel around the globe to attend meetings, workshops, trainings and conferences. The cost for organizing, traveling and time are enormous and the CO2 exhaustion levels are gigantic. What can we do? Should our "globalized" world renounce its most valuable kind of communication, the meeting of people face-to-face? No, says Gabriela Ender. The question is not one of renunciation but of how to consciously create sustainable bridges between our offline and online modes. Gabriela Ender is a visionary, a progressive thinker and an enabler. She puts the people squarely into the center of her internet-based conference method and initiates on a global level totally new processes for learning, finding solutions and initiating change in society, economy, politics, education and research."

Click here to read the interview in English.

We are moving in!!!

We have received the keys for the selfHUB last Thursday and are slowly moving in.

Frauke is already working from the selfHUB since her internet broke at home ;-)

Thank you to Johannes, Tanja, Sebastian, Jürgen, Hans-Albrecht, and Konrad for helping us last week in cleaning, moving, painting, and drilling.

We will continue our work the next Saturdays building shelves and separation walls using old carton boxes. If you would like to join in with helping hands, please email Lucas at: l.winterfeld@self-germany.de

On which issues will Social Pioneers be working in Germany?

The Federal Network for Civic Participation has published a discussion paper with "The Future Trends of Civil Society" in Germany.

Areas for Social Pioneers to start social businesses include:

• The Aging Society
• New Social Networks
• Local Community Development
• Social Divide
• Health Services
• Environment and Consumer Protection
• Education and Life-long Learning
• Potential of Diverse Social Groups
• Relationship between Work and Volunteering
• Change of Values
  

self Stakeholder Dialogues - Nina

1. What is your most important objective, and how can self help you realize it?
I have a great interest in new concepts. Concepts for innovation in society. How can we design our future and what is the role of social entrepreneurship in Germany? self is a network in Germany that I would like to be engaged with. The self network can help me to introduce me to new concepts to make them more tangible. Concepts that inspire me to work with them on social entrepreneurship in Munich.

2. What in the past has been your most useful contribution to your work?
Communication. I have appreciated in the past to get things done through personal talks or dialogue. AIESEC has been a very valuable platform to exchange ideas with like-minded people: working together, being at conferences, meetings, etc. Furthermore, the work in different networks: to discover similarities and to keep developing them together has been very useful.

3. What criteria will you use to assess whether self’s contribution to your objective has been successful?
Planting new ideas, new networks, knowledge sharing in regards to social pioneering. To discover my own contact nodes to products and services of self.. To establish a win-win relationship. To make my personal contribution and experiences in this area. If this is happening then self’s contribution is successful. I want to learn about concepts that are possible to implement in Munich, as well. I am hoping for inspiration to start this in Munich.

4. What would constitute success for self; what would success look like?
The people who work for self need to achieve personal financial sustainability. To be profitable. To create the opportunity for all self stakeholder to satisfy their needs, i.e. to learn and to reflect together. self is well-known as a brand in Germany. The selfHUB attracts interesting organizations/projects and those organizations work from the selfHUB because they value the network of social pioneers. self offers a room for creativity, dialogue, ideas. What is the new that emerges due to the fact that social pioneers are working together? How can competences through mentoring be passed on?

5. How could such a future success be prototyped and tested on a small scale, in order to “learn by doing”?
Asking selfHUB users: how effective is the network factor? What can we learn from other incubators at universities in Berlin? Exchange experiences with other consultants in this area. Ask social pioneers when they join the network: what do you expect from the selfHUB? What are your challenges? What are your needs?

6. What would be practical next steps?
Find exchange partners for a community of practice use the experience and learn with the international HUB network. Promote the concept through personal networks in Berlin and Germany. Build a pilot group of 2-3 social pioneers.

7. After this conversation: what is your burning question now?
What is self thinking about these questions? How can all self stakeholders connect?

8. Mark’s question: what will self do with the profits it makes?
Reinvest it in the own organization to develop new business areas. Fund new ideas by Social Pioneers. Develop new concepts. Start a Fellowship Programme? Start a self Foundation. Reduce prices for selfHUB users in need.

Pioneers of Change meets Unfolding Cards

Last month Wiebke and Frauke took part in the Unfolding Cards workshop in Berlin. Here are some questions from the game and some impressions:

What are the principles upon which you live and work?
(Unfolding Cards principles)














How could a logo for you look like?
(Felix plays, doodles, draws...)





When are you yourself?

(Felix and Gabi)
How do you stay present in the process of emergence?
(Frauke and Leon)











What do you do to nurture yourself? (Wiebke reflecting and presencing with others)

Social Pioneer Conrad fragt...

Wo ist das Land des Gelingens in Deutschland?

Wir sind auf der Suche nach Beispielen für „Gelingen“ in Deutschland. Wovon habt ihr gelesen oder gehört, wo ihr denkt, dass das ein Beispiel für das Land des Gelingens ist?

Bitte bis zum 22.10. per Email, Fax oder Post an Conrad Thimm: ConraThimm@aol.com , Fax 030 2363 4596, Crellestr. 19/20, 10827 Berlin