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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Not meaning to be snarky. Only checking
your intentions with the huge fonts. We you trying to generate
liminality?<br>
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The topic fascinates me. It just strikes me what you say about
continuous improvements creating a liminal or threshold state.
We're not just talking about everyday learning here, we're often
talking about unlearning and complete collapse of understanding
before new ways of looking at things can be embraced. Agile does
seem to have a lot of that. And not everyone is comfortable in
that space. Whereas most OST folks I know love that space.<br>
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I'm reminded of the work of Thomas Kuhn and paradigms and
revolutions in science. I've heard tell that in many fields the
old guard has to die before people can expect things to really
change. But things are changing too fast now to be able to wait
for the old guard to kick the bucket. And often times, we
ourselves end up being the old guard after being the
revolutionaries only a few years (or days!) previously.<br>
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This really is in sync with Harrison Owen's description of grief
work in Wave Rider, one of my favorites of his books, and why OST
has been so relevant. We're really invited to die and die again,
but without dying, so that we can learn new things. But the same
grief process seems to get invoked, even if we don't actually die.<br>
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What does the research and thinking around liminality say about
griefwork?<br>
<br>
Harold<br>
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On 10/11/13 8:14 AM, Daniel Mezick wrote:<br>
> In the book SPIRIT, author Harrison Owen says plainly and
profoundly:<br>
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> <br>
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> “The old ways are passing, and the new ones are yet to
arrive. We are in the Open Space, between what was and what might
become.”<br>
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> <br>
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> This is describing a threshold state:<br>
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> the “liminal” state, which is<br>
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> the “in-between”,<br>
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> the “not-here”,<br>
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> the “not-there”….the “no-mans-land.”<br>
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> <br>
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> We are liminal when we do Agile for real. And because there
is no end to improvement in Agile, the dangers (and the
opportunities) of the liminal state are always present. This is a
perfect spot for a passage rite...one based on Open Space,
leadership storytelling and more.<br>
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> <br>
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> Agile creates stressful liminality. The Open Agile Adoption
technique recognizes what is happening, says “OK” to that, and
addresses the issue by bringing in a useful passage rite, one
designed to handle the liminality…a passage rite that incorporates
Open Space.<br>
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> Now the stress of liminality is reduced, leading to better
outcomes...in the Open Space.<br>
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Harold Shinsato<br>
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