I like to re-phrase Einstein’s great quote to say : “If you cannot tell it to children, so they understand you, you didn’t get it yet yourself. Neuro-science studies found out that 70% of what we learn, comes from stories we heard. Human brain reacts to stories far better that to linear presentation of facts. People like to hear and tell stories where they recognize themselves in, not only as heroes of fiction wonder novels, but also in day-to-day business life.

Storytelling (or Business Narrative) is a powerful way to help organizations and teams embrace change, and change agents are good storytellers. This workshop proposes a set-up to learn some narrative techniques that will empower participants willing to become ( Agile) change Agents or simply allow them to effectively send the messages they want. The workshop help participants to master the description of a chosen topic linked to SCRUM and Agile, via a story built in the session, using story construction telling techniques. It aims to help participants learn storytelling as an improvement technique to build messages that matter. At the end of the workshop , who will have the best story ?

An Organisation is a living system build of people and their interactions. When a system is "threat" it reacts with preservation behaviours. Change and innovation are threats, from a system's status quo perspective, so change is hard, and innovation stops when creative workshops end. To preserve the status quo the system needs to (have the illusion to) stay in control, therefore a good number of activities such as risk analysis, estimations, reporting, are set in place to "control the future", so it will be the way we want it to be. These activities we need to perform to reinforce the self-reassurance on our capability to "control the future" self- have a cost. I call it the cost of fear.

The workshop offers an experimental space to eventually limit "the cost of fear", ie. those '"mandatory" activities driven by our self-reassurance related needs as stakeholders, rather than by a valuable outcome. It is designed to address test teams organisations, but it can be extended to a wider scale if required by the participants.

Throw a purpose in a middle of a crowd, it will start to self-organize. Many self-organised entities like ... villages or cities have an "embedded purpose", not voluntarily shared out-loud or displayed in common places. Villages and cities have growth aligned to their embedded purpose. Acting in a purpose driven way is less obvious for organisations. More a company grows, more dissolved into the Process the original business purpose becomes. This talk presents the 3 stages of Agile Experience Awareness I've seen unfolded and reveals how aligning to a clear shared purpose triggers growth, Agile culture propagation, and scaling becomes a side effect. 

We are drawn to people who share the same beliefs and have had similar relevant experiences. These groups give us strength and a sense of belonging. However, this creates a “self-sealing logic” that can lock out learning, because we state our beliefs as proven evidence. Every missed opportunity of collaboration, may it be at enterprise, organisation, or team level, is a symptom of our inability, as a group, to observe and learn from other group experience and set of values. We are here at the most important Agile Conference, seeking to meet people who have similar experiences, and eventually share same conclusions. What if we were about to create another bubble of "Self-Sealing-Logic" ? 
The hands-on exercices used in the workshop use "Liminal Thinking", the latest fabulous work of Dave Gray, combined with examples of "Third Culture Kids" profiles. The approach aims to support organisations become continuous learning entities, that reinforce leadership and trigger cultural shift. 
Session's main goals are :

• create a space of opportunity to "unlock" our own bubble of beliefs through a set of hands-on exercices, 
• experience , through the open discussion during the exercices, how learning enhances leadership, 
• allow the audience to discover Dave Gray's "liminal thinking". We will learn to unveil the impact of our beliefs and start understanding why we have needed them. What were the relevant needs that lead to our assumptions? On the other hand, during the session, we will pick some other "self-sealing logic" group and try to understand without judgement their own process that led them from their own relevant experiences to different beliefs.