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"Our evolution required cooperation, so we're actually wired not for cheating, manipulating each other, or fierce competition but for working in concert." - Thomas Zwaka

4 guiding principles

!. The considerations of the partners are of the utmost importance: from their own stories they are creating a new story. What story should this be? What dreams does it entail?

2. What precious value has each of the partners to offer to the other ones?

3. How do the partners remain independent from each other, in order to be able to let go at any time at any circumstance?

4. The (cyclic) development of the cooperation will have to be followed on a regular basis, in order to see whether the new story enrolls as expected or not. And to decide how to move on or not.

Working in accordance with

Natural Cycles

The universe is all about circles. Why would this be different in the field of human cooperation and contracts? For instance, from the cycle of the moon we can learn not to be afraid of change. It teaches us that letting go and change is the necessary part of the cycle that allows for renewal. Which is reflected by the dark phase of the moon every 28 days.

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About me

During the fourteen years of my former career as an international contract lawyer I loved drafting agreements. To me, this was the ultimate creative process: find- ing the right words and form in order to assist parties in laying the fundamentals for a long-lasting co-operation. It was real fun, playing with words, putting sentences and clauses in a logical order and - very important - therewith offering clarity to the parties’ own understanding. Until it fell upon me that work pleasure faded away quickly during the negotiation processes as all emphasis was laid on describing risks and possible negative outcomes of the cooperation yet even to start! And where the costs of negotiation processes are immense, financial losses are even greater when the cooperation does not work out to be as successful as it was meant to be. Despite the length of the contract, parties often seek judicial relief in a desperate attempt not to lose less than its counterpart...

In my believe, cooperation processes should be joyful against minimum costs. And it is possible, if only we would allow ourselves to lign up with the processes we find in nature.





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