Satir workshops

Op verzoek van Jan Lelie geef ik dit door:

Je/jullie weten als de beste dat faciliteren een kunst en een vak is.

The Satir Journal has completed its first year of publication with three issues

Volume 1 No 3 of the Satir Journal is now available both electronically and in print.

Volume 2 will contain 3 issues to be published in 2008

Print Issues:

• All future issues will be available in print as well as electronically
• Print subscriptions are now available, cost $65 US/CDN
• Individual print issues are $25 US/CDN
• Some print issues of Vol 1 No1 and Vol 1 No 2 are still available, cost $25 US/CDN

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Diana Larsen will present the following workshops sponsored by Trifork in January --

"Making Good Teams Great: Improving Project Performance with Retrospectives" workshop
Jan 14-15, Aarhus, Denmark
Retrospectives offer the greatest lever for improving any software development project or process—based on the solid data of a team’s immediate past experience of success and failure. Through Retrospectives teams systematically evaluate their own performance, explore their lessons learned, expand their capacity and capability, and choose how to improve the way they build and deliver products to your customers. For best results, smart teams and organizations convene Retrospectives iteratively throughout the project and again after delivery.

"Stimulate Team Success: Inspecting and Adapting Management Skills for Agile Projects" workshop
Jan 17-18, Aarhus, Denmark
In Agile work environments smart people work in teams to self-organize their work and produce higher quality results faster and more reliably. Management’s traditional focus on closely monitoring, supervising, controlling, and tracking individuals and their work no longer serves business needs as it once did. Yet Agile methods don’t eliminate the role of management. What’s left for a manager to do? Plenty! The savvy manager shifts focus from controlling work to facilitating it, easing the flow to higher productivity. Agile managers perform new roles.

For more information,
http://www.trifork.com/default.asp?Action=Menu&Item=5

"You should know by now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it; then he looks and rejoices and laughs; and then he sees and knows. He knows that his life will be over altogether too soon; he knows that he, as well as everybody else, is not going anywhere; he knows, because he sees, that nothing is more important than anything else.

Humans easily bond with people, land, rituals, memes, and many other "things". And as many connections are made, as many connections are broken too. It's (our) Nature. And Nature also provides us with effective ways for healing ourselves from broken connections so we can make new connections. That is, if we know how, and if we do not block our grief. Besides personal factors, environmental factors, like having to keep working to pay our bills to keep our shelter and have food, can also hinder or block healthy grief. When we block grief, we can experience significant psychological, physical, and relational problems.

Not too many people allow themselves, or can afford to do healthy grieving, even less people have learned how to evolve grief-proof relationships and families, and it's only a rare few that know why and how to detect and release blocked grief (Yes, this is a conscious challenge).

??? Healthy grieving ???
? What does that look like ?

In studying the spaces between two letters, or two birds in a flock, we can distinguish some universal temporal patterns that we can use for building healthy relationships, as long as we remain aware hopes and wishes of both parties in any relationship may change.

Meeting for the first time

The first phase is like a romantic meeting. The desire for a relationship is acknowledged by both parties, and the other party seems to fit the gestalt of a perfect partner. During romantic encounters we seem to carefully check each other out, and whether the other party meets some basic conditions. We flirt.

Take a step back from your busy buzzed businesses, and check whether the relationships in your business/team/life meet the below quality connections. If not, hight time for some test-driven development until they do!

This set of stones was written with appreciation for my colleague Willem van den Ende. We practiced on each other, and he is the most courageous man I know, being able to share his true thoughts and feelings.

What can you do to resolve conflicts with (a) colleague(s)?
How can you prevent a nightmarish environment?
How to not make enemies for life?

A team keeps having seemingly endless discussions, or the team appears to be in chaos and does not seem to get out.
As a meeting moderator or facilitator, how can I discover what is going on?
And what can I do?

I was asked about my reference to "mental aikido" in preventing creative constipation.

In the usual alpha business ways, we can perceive aggressive competitive behavior of beings (male aspect) intending to prevent promiscuity of potential receivers and developers (female aspect) by isolation in terms of ownership of code, and sometimes even by intimidation like threatening to sue.