FW: [TLGC-USA] Fwd: [XP] Appreciative Inquiry with 400 people

Mon Feb 27 17:31:53 PST 2006

 Dear AI, OST and TWC Friends,

Cindee Andres asked that I post her message, below, along with the message
to her from June Kim, below that, to share her excitement about the ripples
being generated through large group methods from the nonprofit world to the
high tech corporate world and from the US to Korea and beyond.  

To clear up the alphabet soup, TLGC refers to a Transformative Large Group
Conversations Workshop that KAIROS delivered last May in Chicago to La Leche
League (LLL) change leaders.  We use the 4-D's of AI as the organizing
change model to experientially teach & practice AI (Discovery), World Café
(Dream) and OST (Design) and back-home project planning (Destiny).  

I think you might especially enjoy the story that June Kim tells of an
Appreciative Inquiry event with 400 IT folks in Korea.

Warm wishes from drought stricken Arizona (131 days without precipitation).
If you are overflowing with water in your part of the world, please send wet
wishes our way.

Christine

Christine Whitney Sanchez
KAIROS Alliance Inc.
2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue
Phoenix, AZ  85048
480.759.0262
www.kairosalliance.com <http://www.kairosalliance.com> 

-----Original Message-----
From: TLGC-USA at yahoogroups.com [mailto:TLGC-USA at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Cindee Andres
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 1:17 AM
To: claudiahb at juno.com; TLGC-USA at yahoogroups.com; milagro27 at cox.net
Subject: [TLGC-USA] Fwd: [XP] Appreciative Inquiry with 400 people

Using what I learned at the TLGC meeting with LLL we have been doing all of
our XP workshops using AI with mind-mapping , sometimes also world cafe'
depending on the length/type of the workshop.  (Besides the LLL cafes/
conversation rooms and open space meetings Sue Scott has been reporting and
of which I love being a part.) The ripples are spreading wider than I could
have imagined.  See the following message! 
  Thanks for your part in this.

Cindee Andres
>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extremeprogramming at yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:extremeprogramming at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of June Kim
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 8:37 PM
> To: extremeprogramming at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [XP] Appreciative Inquiry with 400 people
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> I gave a talk on the 7th Java Developers' Conference in Korea 
> yesterday. The conference is annually held and it is one of the 
> biggest IT conferences here. This time about 3000 people attended.
>
> Me and two more speakers(Jeyong Shin and Alan Kang) gave a talk titled 
> "Adoption Patterns for XP 2.0". The 2.0 part is a parody for Web 2.0.
>
> I'd like to share our experience and I hope it can be a help to 
> someone in the mailing list.
>
> I will describe the whole time(lasted for 1hour and 15mins) in 
> chronological order.
>
> Before our talk began, we posted two sheets of big empty paper nearby 
> the door of our room. There was written "What would you like to hear 
> from this talk? Any questions? We'll try to include them JIT" with 
> post-it notes and pens hanging on the wall.
>
> We first asked people to bring their chairs close to the platform so 
> that there could be more space between the lines of the chairs. There 
> were about 400 people in the room, some standing at the back of the 
> room.
>
> Then we introduced ourselves very shortly.
>
> Now we told them that we were going to do some warm up exercises 
> before our talk and asked them to follow a very simple rule: "make all 
> the people(maximum 8 people -- it's like in life game cells) around 
> you be strangers -- whom you don't know"
>
> People grabbed their bags and moved around to make their surrounding 
> cells to be "unfamiliar". In asia, the threshold of feeling 
> uncomfortable when sitting next to strangers is usually lower than the 
> western countries, and they prefer to stick together with the 
> "familiars" ; they sit together with friends, colleauges, and etc. Our 
> intention was to make an artificial unfamiliar situation and let the 
> people focus more on our talk and participate in our acitivity more 
> actively, and also learn from other people.
>
> Now one of us, holding a roll of red tape, walked out of the stage 
> into the audience and circled back to the stage. Effectively, about 30 
> or some audience were surrounded by the red tape. It was like a scene 
> from a performance art. People were carefully watching him exploring 
> in the mass of the audience this way and that way with the red tape 
> roll.
>
> Then we asked the 30 or some people to follow our rules. They played a 
> game of experiencing "emergence". And then we scaled the size up to 
> the whole audience. It was such a spectacular scene. While they were 
> doing the game(it was something like raising both hands sometimes and 
> trying to sync with the nearby cells), we videotaped it(twice, once in 
> small size, the second in large size).
>
> Now we played it back on the big screen and let them compare the two 
> cases.
>
> Next time, we played that in a simulation program written in NetLogo.
> People watched it with breathless interest and when the whole pattern 
> was emerging on the screen some people yelled an exclamation, 
> "Ah....!".
>
> Now we loaded a new program. We programmed another simulation showing 
> how changing pairs frequently affects knowledge sharing in a group, 
> depending on the size and various parameters.
>
> We said to the audience that the activities you've done is the theme 
> of our talk and you must think over this during the talk and after the 
> talk, what the relationship is between Adopting XP 2.0 and them.
>
> Now a few presentations describing what's changed since XP 1E. Values, 
> principles, practices, accountability and so on. It was not very long.
>
> Then the main thing started. We showed them the principles for the 
> adoption patterns, such as Low Hanging Fruits First, The Most 
> Important And The Worst Thing First, Making a New Practice from 
> Principles(using Dependency Inversion Principle between practices, for
> example) and etc. There was Focusing on Solution(Appreciative 
> Inquiry), too.
>
> We asked them to form groups of four people and they don't know about 
> each other because of what we have done in the beginning of the talk.
> We did AI with Energetic Work practice. I asked them to remember the 
> experience of doing "Energetic Work" in a team or by oneself. Some 
> people shook their heads left and right, denying as if they never had 
> that kind of experience. But I told them, "you don't need to go back 
> to the kindergarten time to find it. it doesn't matter how short that 
> experience was. Even one day, or one hour of energetic work is okay."
>
> Strange thing was beginning to happen. At first people seldomly talked 
> to each other but slowly but steadily people started to talk with each 
> other. 400 people were talking to each other at the same time, 
> actively! It is a very rare thing in Korea, esp in such a big IT 
> conference.
>
> After a couple of minutes, I changed the direction. "Now think about 
> the situation, conditions of that experience and share with the 
> others"
>
> As an example, I lead that step with one of the other speakers in 
> front of the audience.
>
> Finally, we asked them to think about how they could apply those 
> conditions and those past time memories to today's situation. After 
> that, I asked one of the audience how it felt. "I, strangely, felt 
> very enthusiastic again while telling my past experience of energetic 
> work, and felt energetic" I told them to do that practice with the 
> team members when they go back to work, or a close colleague in the 
> work place.
>
> Then we came back to the presentation and showed them a few patterns 
> of adopting XP into a team or individually.
>
> Now we answered some of the questions that were written on the big 
> paper outside the room, and then got some more questions from the 
> people.
>
> That's it. Some of the audience left comments on our blog(in Korea,
> sorry) today.
>
> "It was a life chaning experience and I couldn't sleep last night"
>
> "I have been doing XP for many years and I expected nothing I would 
> learn from the talk but it was amazing. When we were talking about 
> energetic work experiences one person in our group shook her head 
> strongly and said she just has to do what she should do and she really 
> dislike the work. But as the time and discussion went on, she was 
> starting to talk pleasantly, and finally I could read a lot of 
> confidence and pleasure in her face: she was changing. I also learned 
> something I didn't know before, while telling them my experience."
>
>
> Thank you very much Kent Beck, and other members of this community 
> helping me have this wonderful experience.
>
> June Kim
>
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