B1- Identifying emerging thematic fields and co-initiating

In this phase the individual questions that everyone has made were more discussed and elaborated as follow:

A- Several small groups were made in order to discuss questions/topics that matter,

B- Everyone in the group was supposed to briefly present his/her individual question, while other members of the group were silent and listening. After this short presentation," Core Beliefs" and "Assumptions/Base concepts" regarding the presented questions were made by everyone separately, and at the end everyone in the group was supposed to prioritizes his/her core-belief cards  according to the most interesting one to the least interesting one,

C- All the separated groups gathered together and put the interesting questions/topics with the respectively core beliefs and assumptions cards on a big table and a "semantic map" was created.  Then semantically related concepts were expressed by closeness. And finally, through negotiation and discussion, thematic fields were created,

D- Reduction of the thematic fields to the desired number of “knowledge creation teams” (KCTs). At this phase, each participant assigns him-/herself to a thematic field. Four topics and respectively four knowledge creation groups were created as follow:

KCT 1: Predicting
KCT 2: Environment
KCT 3: Homoeconomicus
KCT 4: Hierarchy

 At the beginning of the session, I was in the group with four other students and the questions within the group were regarding homoeconomicus, ethics in organizational behaviour, future predicting, social awareness activities and environmental issues, which was actually my question. It was very interesting to think about the core beliefs behind any specific questions, it lead me to think more thoroughly about the presented topics and when we entered the phase C, my question of interest was selected as one of the thematic fields , so I made my KCT with three  other people to work on an environment topic.

 M.M