Satir workshops

The Agile Manifesto states: we have come to value individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Tools and techniques are not enough for running your projects, you need 'people tools' as well. We all know that for instance developers and customers fighting abouth who did what wrong doesn't make our projects finish early, yet it is hard to stop doing it. Especially when the pressure is on. This workshop provides tools and processes for individuals and interactions, to help you take a step towards peaceful, effective projects.

• Duration: 4 1/2 hours (including breaks)
• Type: Experiential
• Maximum number of participants: 20

Intended participants

Anyone who wants to become more effective through:

• awareness of how our way of communicating influences others and vice versa
• consciousness of the change processes in self, others and the context so that we can surf the waves of change, rather than drowning in the surf of the waves

Benefits

After this workshop, you can:

• lose less time and energy due to fighting
• balance interaction between developers, management and customers
• develop a long-term trust relationship between developers, management and customers
• get your team into a state of flow, where the team delivers more value, while being more relaxed at the same time
• focus on problems - create an atmosphere where underlying problems surface themselves, so appropriate solutions can be devised.

Session Choreography

• Introduction
• Peace within: Congruent action
  • Brief explanation of the self/other/context model as taught by Virginia Satir
  • Experiencing (in)congruence in fun and enjoyable blaming/placating/irrelevant/superreasonable roleplay.
  • Roleplay. We use a technique called 'Sculpting' to act out how Extreme Values, AgileValues or the values from the Agile Manifesto are present or not in work situations.
• Peace between: Satir Interaction Model
• Peace Among: Changing the way we change
  • Experiencing the Satir Change model and learn to embrace change
• Temperature reading - evaluation and closing of the workshop

History

The Balancing Act has been run before at several international conferences, like Agile Open, XP Day Benelux 2005, XP Day Germany 2005., XP Days France 2006, SPA2006.